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SUMMARY:[Seminar] The European Commission’s response to national emergency regimes within the EU’s asylum policy
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming research seminar featuring Florian Trauner and Federica Zardo\, who will present their recent paper entitled: “The European Commission’s response to national emergency regimes within the EU’s asylum policy: from rejection to accommodation”. \nAbstract\nNational emergency laws restricting the entry of asylum seekers have become increasingly common across the European Union. This article investigates how the European Commission responds to such emergency regimes that derogate from EU asylum and migration law\, and which combination of factors explains the variation in its responses. \nUsing a diverse case study design covering Austria\, Hungary\, and Poland since 2016\, the study traces how the Commission’s response shifted from rejection to forbearance and ultimately to accommodation\, leading to the partial Europeanisation of exceptional practices under the 2024 asylum reform package. \nBuilding on research on legal forbearance and compliance\, the article argues that the Commission’s behaviour depends not only on rational cost–benefit calculations but also on how it perceives the nature of each crisis\, and the trust in the member state involved. The findings point to a broader institutional shift\, as the Commission seeks to preserve its authority by redefining the boundaries of compliance. \n\nTrauner\, F.\, & Zardo\, F. (2026). The European Commission’s response to national emergency regimes within the EU’s asylum policy: from rejection to accommodation. Journal of European Public Policy\, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2026.2640170\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\nFlorian Trauner is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Brussels School of Governance at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).\nFederica Zardo is Senior Researcher at the Department of Migration and Globalisation at Danube University Krems and a Lecturer at the University of Vienna.\n\nDiscussant\n\nJuliette Dupont is a MSCA postdoctoral researcher from UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles\n\nPractical Information\n\nDate: Wednesday 7 October 2026\nTime: 12:30 PM -2:00PM (Lunch from 12:00 PM)\nLocation: UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles\, Préfecture Building\, Room P02 for the seminar and P12 for the lunch\nLanguage: English\n\nParticipation is free\, but registration is required. \nRegister here to attend the seminar (Registration Link) \n  \nMedia: author Youtryandyoutry\, source Wikimedia Commons
URL:https://www.eumergencies.eu/event/seminar-the-european-commissions-response-to-national-emergency-regimes-within-the-eus-asylum-policy/
LOCATION:P02\, Online
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SUMMARY:[Roundtable] The International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion on Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Roundtable | The Law and Politics of Climate Change: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and EU Member States\nOn 23 July 2025\, the International Court of Justice delivered its advisory opinion on obligations of States in respect of climate change\, a probable legal milestone in the planetary struggle for the protection of the environment. However\, in a context of compounding polycrises where a diversity of ecological issues – with climate change at the forefront – collide with increasing political polarisation and socioeconomic difficulties\, the veritable reach this opinion will have remains to be seen. \nBy means of interventions from speakers that have directly been involved in the case or in the campaign for its request\, this roundtable addresses three dimensions of the opinion. First\, how it came to be. Second\, what it says. Third\, what it might entail. These three lines of inquiry are dealt with from a critical perspective\, blending both legal and political considerations. \n  \nSpeakers \n\nMomchil Milanov (International Court of Justice)\nAndré Bouquet (European Commission)\nJosephine Norris (European Commission)\n\nDiscussants \n\nGauthier Martens (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)\nFlorine Serrault (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)\n\nPractical Information\nWhen ? Thursday\, 15 October 2026\, lunchtime starts at 12:00 PM. The roundtable starts at 12:30 PM and finishes at 2:00PM. \nWhere ? UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles\, Salle du Conseil & Online \nRegistration\nMandatory for catering purposes. Please fill in the form.  \n  \nThis event is co-organized with the CReSPo (Centre de Recherche en Science Politique – UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) as part of its Environnement seminar series\, and with CLAIM.
URL:https://www.eumergencies.eu/event/roundtable-the-law-and-politics-of-climate-change/
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SUMMARY:[Conference & Early Career Researchers Workshop] The European Union and Natural Disasters
DESCRIPTION:Introduction\nClimate change is increasing the frequency\, intensity\, and complexity of extreme weather events leading to disasters. In Europe alone\, around 87 million people are exposed to multiple natural hazards. Yet\, the role of the European Union in this field remains far from clear-cut. \nOn the one hand\, the prevention and response to disasters induced by natural hazards (often referred to as natural disasters) remain primary responsibilities of the Member States\, notwithstanding the EU’s growing competence in this field through subsequent reforms of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and the introduction of rescEU. \nOn the other hand\, EU powers in this respect are institutionally and legally fragmented across the multitude of policy areas that the prevention and response to these disasters might criss-cross — from civil protection to humanitarian aid\, climate\, health or migration policy\, security and defence or external relations. \nInternationally\, the EU has been participating actively in efforts towards the adoption of the first binding instrument on the protection of persons in the event of disasters and in forging partnerships with different actors for the delivery of humanitarian aid\, raising questions about its influence\, cooperation arrangements\, and the degree to which the EU’s approach to (natural) disaster management shapes and is shaped by events beyond the EU. \nAgainst this background\, this conference invites a multidisciplinary dialogue on the law\, politics\, and governance of disasters induced by natural hazards in the EU and the role of the EU as an international disaster relief actor. \nProgramme\nPhD and Early Career Researchers’ Workshop (Thursday\, 5 November 2026)\n\n8:45 – Welcome coffee and registration\n9:15 – Welcome address (Organising Committee)\n09:30 – 11:00 – Panel 1. Framing the EU’s external governance of natural hazard-induced disasters\nChair and discussant: Federico Casolari (University of Bologna) \n\nThe EU’s Humanitarian Aid policy towards natural disasters: A Social Network Analysis between 2016-2025\, Alexandre Piron and Christopher Crellin (ISPOLE UCLouvain\, Belgium)\nBetween Norm-Exporter and Norm-Taker: The European Union and the Emergence of a Binding International Disaster Law\, Roberta Leale (LUISS Guido Carli University\, Rome)\nThe EU as an International Disaster Responder: Humanitarian Principles and External Action in the 2023 Syrian Earthquake Response\, Hasan Ogredik (University of Exeter\, United Kingdom)\n\n\n11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee break\n11:30 – 13:15 – Panel 2. Climate and natural hazard-induced disasters\nChair and discussant: Chloé Brière (Université Libre de Bruxelles) \n\nConstructing the self and producing otherness: a poststructuralist discourse analysis of the EU’s Climate-Security approach\, Matthias Rétel (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)\nClimate related displacement in EU law and policy\, Adeodata Kanyamihanda (University of Antwerp)\nFrance’s failures and EU’s legal shortcomings in disaster governance: Cyclone Chido in Mayotte\, Ignacio Portela Giraldez (University of New South Wales)\nNatural disasters and criminal liability\, Mario Pesciarelli (University of Bologna)\n\n\n13:15 – 14:30 – Lunch\n14:30 – 16:15 – Panel 3. Operationalising the EU’s response to natural hazard-induced disasters\nChair and discussant: Romain Foucart (University of Angers) \n\nFraming Spontaneous Volunteers in Disaster Response: A Literature Review\, Emmeline Roeloffs (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)\nNatural Disasters and B2G Data Sharing: Critical Issues in the “Digital Omnibus” Reform of the Data Act\, Daniele Sborlini (University of Bologna)\nEmergency-bound Data Governance in the EU: Limits of the Data Act and Digital Omnibus amendments for Disaster Risk Reduction\, Chiara Miozzo (University of Bologna)\nFrom Policy Architecture to Cognitive Practice: Examining the Gap in EU Disaster Risk Management Education\, Annika Fröwis (University of Vienna)\n\n\n16:30 – 17:00 – Closing address (Organising Committee)\n19:00 – Joint Dinner (Workshop and Conference speakers)\n\nConference (Friday\, 6 November 2026)\n\n8:30 – Welcome coffee and registration\n09:15 – Welcome address (Organising Committee)\n09:15 – 10:00 – Keynote address (speaker tbc)\n10:00 – 11:30 – Panel 1. Framing the EU’s governance of natural hazard-induced disasters\nChair: Andrea Ott (University of Maastricht) \n\nTowards a Reconceptualization of Natural Disasters in International Law: What Implications for the EU’s Emergency-Oriented Approach? Federica Passarini (University of Tuscia)\nFrom Civil Protection to Health Emergency Preparedness? The Transformation of EU Disaster Governance after Covid-19\, Michele Migliori (European Policy Centre\, Brussels)\nFederico Casolari (University of Bologna)\n\n\n11:30 – 11:45 – Coffee break\n11:45 – 13:15 – Panel 2. Fault lines in EU disaster governance: anticipating disasters\nChair: Jean-Louis de Brouwer (Egmont Institute) \n\nThe Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) as the world’s collective disaster memory: data\, methods\, and use\, Elena Briones Alonso (UCLouvain-Brussels)\nFrom Data to Decisions: The Implementation Gap in EU Disaster Response\, Aikaterini Beli\, Alessandro Paciaroni\, Mpampis Chatzimallis (Lisbon Council – Brussels)\nEU Circular Economy Law as Preventive Legal Infrastructure in Natural Disaster Governance\, Francesco Deana (University of Udine)\n\n\n13:15 – 14:30 – Lunch\n14:30 – 16:00 – Panel 3. Fault lines in EU disaster governance: vulnerability and the aftermath of disasters\nChair: Miriam Alba Reina (Red Cross EU Office) \n\nIntegrated wildfire risk management in the European Union as part of the civil protection policy. Where are we going\, and how did we get here? Romain Foucart (University of Angers)\nFrom Crisis Response to Structural Knowledge: Rethinking EU Disaster Governance through Long-Term Analysis\, Davide Olori (University of Milan-Bicocca)\nBeyond Aid Delivery: Political Dynamics and Access to Humanitarian Assistance in Hatay Following the 6 February 2023 Earthquakes\, Hatice Nihan Sarihan (United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies UNU-CRIS – Bruges) and Yiğit Göktuğ Torun (Friedrich Naumann Foundation – Istanbul)\nBelonging\, Vulnerability and Disaster Governance: Human Rights Challenges in Informal Roma Settlements Exposed to Natural Hazards\, Ivan Allegranti and Sára Kiššová (Comenius University\, Bratislava)\n\n\n16:00 – 16:30 – Closing address (Organising Committee)\n\nPractical information\n\nDate: 5–6 November 2026\nLocation: UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels Campus – P02 – Prefecture Building\nOrganising committee: Teresa M. Cabrita and Denis Duez (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)\, Federico Casolari (University of Bologna)\n\nRegistration\nYou can register via this link by selecting the days and panels you wish to attend\, as well as your lunch preferences.
URL:https://www.eumergencies.eu/event/conference-eu-natural-disasters/
LOCATION:P02 – UCLouvain SLB\, Rue du Marais 119\, Brussels\, 1000\, Belgium
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