7.12.2020 Speakers - Shaping the Future of Europe Navigation Words of Welcome Prof. Dr. Jaap DE ZWAAN Jaap de Zwaan is emeritus Professor of European Union Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam and former Director of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael. His professional career has essentially been devoted to the domain of European integration, in several capacities, such as member of the bar, diplomat, university professor and director of a think tank. De Zwaan has participated in negotiations at European Union level with regard to, for example, treaty making, the accession of new member states and harmonization of national legislations. He also was agent of the Dutch Government in numerous legal proceedings before the Court of Justice in Luxembourg. His main domains of EU interest are related to respectively the constitutional debate, the internal market cooperation, the area of freedom, security and justice (notably EU asylum and immigration law and policy), and the external relations of the EU. Jaap de Zwaan is TEPSA’s Secretary- General. Recent publications: Is the Schengen system sustainable? Historic elements, achievements and shortcomings, Contribution to a round table discussion on 2 and 3 March 2020, organised by Globsec,Slovakia: https://www.globsec.org/publications/is-schengen-system- sustainable-historic-elements-achievements-and-shortcomings/ Brexit, State of Play and Perspectives,European Public Law Series/Bibliothèque de droit public européen, Volume 31, no. 1, ISSN 1105-1590, EPLO 2019, pages 21-77 Is Schengen at risk and how to cope with the Migration Crisis?, European Public Law Series/Bibliothèque de droit public européen, Volume 29, no. 1, ISSN 1105-1590, EPLO 2017, pages 229-244 Prof. Dr. Frank SCHIMMELFENNIG Frank Schimmelfennig is Professor of European Politics and member of the Center for Comparative and International Studies at the ETH Zurich. He also chairs the Scientific Board of the Institut für Europäische Politik in Berlin. His research focuses on European integration and, more specifically, integration theory, EU enlargement, differentiated integration, democracy promotion and democratization. https://www.german-ppc-2020.eu/en/speakers.html 1/20 7.12.2020 Speakers - Shaping the Future of Europe Recent publications: Frank Schimmelfennig/Thomas Winzen: Ever Looser Union? Differentiated European Integration. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020 Frank Schimmelfennig/Ulrich Sedelmeier: The Europeanization of Eastern Europe: the External Incentives Model Revisited. Journal of European Public Policy 27: 6, 2020, 814-833. Frank Schimmelfennig: Politicisation Management in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy27: 3, 2020, 342-361. Young Ideas Panel: Shaping the Future of Europe Moderation: Dr. Funda TEKIN Moderation: Dr. Funda TEKIN: Funda Tekin is director at Institut für Europäische Politik Berlin. She is also external senior research fellow at the Centre for Turkey and European Union Studies at University of Cologne, project director of the Jean Monnet network “VIADUCT – Enhancing Visibility of the Academic Dialogue on EU-Turkey Cooperation” as well as leading researcher in the H2020 Project "EU IDEA - Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability". Her research topics are among others EU-Turkey relations, differentiated integration in the EU, the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Euroscepticism and institutional reforms of the EU. Funda Tekin is member of the board of the Trans European Policy Studies Association, part of the flying faculty of the Turkish-German University and editor of the Nomos-book series on EU- Turkey relations. Twitter: https://twitter.com/FundaTekin17 @FundaTekin17 Recent publications: Funda Tekin/Vittoria Meissner/Nils Fabian Müller: “Narratives of Political Unity in Times of Differentiation”, EU IDEA Research Paper no. 3, December 2019, https://euidea.eu/2019/12/20/narratives-of- political-unity-in-times-of-differentiation Funda Tekin / Jana Schubert (2020): Deutschlands Corona- Präsidentschaft: Weichenstellung für die Zukunft Europas“, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte: Europäische Baustellen, 70. Jahrgang, Juni 2020, S. 11-17. Reiners, Wulf /Tekin, Funda: Taking Refuge in Leadership? Facilitators and Constraints of Germany’s Influence in EU Migration Policy and EU-Turkey Affairs during the Refugee Crisis (2015– 2016), in: German Politics, 2019,https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2019.1566457. Dr. Werner HOYER https://www.german-ppc-2020.eu/en/speakers.html 2/20 7.12.2020 Speakers - Shaping the Future of Europe Born in Wuppertal in 1951, Werner Hoyer studied and earned his doctorate in economics at the University of Cologne in 1977, where he also worked as a research assistant and later as a lecturer for "International Economic Relations". During his time as a member of the German Bundestag, he served in the FDP parliamentary group, among others as parliamentary manager, security spokesman, deputy chairman and foreign policy spokesman, as well as general secretary of the FDP and minister of state in the Federal Foreign Office. He was elected as President of the EIB by the EU member states in 2012. Dr. Hoyer and his wife Katja have 2 children. The Board of Governors confirmed Dr. Hoyer's re-election for a second term in July 2017, starting on January 1st, 2018. Axel DITTMANN Axel Dittmann is Director for EU Institutional Affairs, Brexit, EU Coordination, and EU2020 Presidency at the German Federal Foreign Office. Until recently, he was Ambassador of Germany to Serbia, a position he had held since 2015. Other previous roles include Head of Division for European Policy Issues in the Federal Foreign Office, member of the UNOSEK negotiating team at the United Nations in Vienna (2006– 2007), and member of the German negotiating team for the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (2001–2004). Twitter: https://twitter.com/GermanyonBrexit @GermanyonBrexit The EU’s differentiated future after Brexit Moderation: Dr. Christian FROMMELT Christian Frommelt is Director (since 2018) and Research Fellow for politics (since 2011) at the Liechtenstein Institute. He is currently responsible for the Horizon 2020 research project “Integrating Diversity in the European Union (InDivEU)”. Recent publications: Frommelt, Christian (2020): 25 Years of Liechtenstein’s EEA Membership – Survey Findings. Study on behalf of the Ministry of General Government Affairs and Finance. Liechtenstein Institute. Bendern. Frommelt, Christian (2020): Ausnahmeregelungen und Anpassungen im EWR-Recht. In: Andreas Th. Müller und Werner Schroeder (Hg.): 25 Jahre Europäischer Wirtschaftsraum. Ein Integrationsszenarium auf dem Prüfstand. Baden-Baden: Nomos (EuR Europarecht, Beiheft 1/2020), S. 101-123. Frommelt, Christian (2020): Ist die EWR-Mitgliedschaft ein Souveränitätsgewinn? Über ein Narrativ und dessen aktuelle https://www.german-ppc-2020.eu/en/speakers.html 3/20 7.12.2020 Speakers - Shaping the Future of Europe Bedeutung. In: Liechtensteinische Juristenzeitung (LJZ) 2020, H. 1, S. 41–49. Prof. Dr. Brigid LAFFAN Brigid Laffan is Director and Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, an inter-disciplinary research centre at the European University Institute. The Centre’s mission is to contribute to research on the major issues facing contemporary European society. Previously she was Vice-President of UCD and Principal of the College of Human Sciences from 2004 to 2011. Brigid Laffan is recipient of numerous awards: in 2005 she was elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy and in 2010 received the Ordre nationale du Mérite from the President of the French Republic. Her scholarship has been recognised by the THESEUS Award for Outstanding Research on European Integration in 2012 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to the development of European Studies in 2014 by UACES. Brigid’s research focuses on the dynamic of European integration. Recent major publications include her co-edited book Core-periphery Relations in the European Union (London: Routledge, 2016, 311pp) and ‘Europe’s Union in Crisis: Tested and Contested’, Special Issue, West European Politics, 2016, 39:5. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrigidLaffan @BrigidLaffan Recent publications: LAFFAN, Brigid, Brexit: re-opening Ireland's 'English Question', The political quarterly, 2018, Vol.89, 4, pp. 568-575. Retrieved from Cadmus, European University Institute Research Repository, at: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/60535 LAFFAN, Brigid, Brexit : a tale of exit over voice, in Franklin ALLEN; Elena CARLETTI; Joanna GRAY and Mitu GULATI (eds), The changing geography of finance and regulation in Europe, Florence : European University Institute; London : Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College; Milan: Baffi Carefin, Bocconi University, 2017, pp. 129-140 Retrieved from Cadmus, European University Institute Research Repository, at: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/53725 Roundtable discussion: Migration and Asylum Moderation: Dr. Vittoria MEISSNER Moderation: Dr. Vittoria MEISSNER: Vittoria Meissner is currently working as a research advisor at the Institut für Europäische Politik in Berlin where she also researches within the Horizon 2020 Project "EU IDEA – Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability". Her research interests include the EU migration and asylum policy, differentiated integration as well as European integration processes and institutional change. https://www.german-ppc-2020.eu/en/speakers.html 4/20 7.12.2020 Speakers - Shaping