Past Event: The EU's Geopolitical Autonomy and Citizens' Rights

18 Nov 2022

Join us on Friday 18th November 2022 for this on-line Seminar 'The EU's Geopolitical Autonomy and Citizens' Rights'. This seminar will examine the European Union’s role in global rights issue in the context of the rapidly shifting international political environment of the 2020s. 

The seminar will address issues such as the place of human rights in EU foreign policy, the challenges the EU faces in promoting human rights globally, the impact of the rise of authoritarian great powers (in particular, China and Russia) on the EU as a human rights actor, rights in the context of the EU’s economic relations with third countries, and the widening global rights agenda (including, for example, rights in the digital/technology sphere and rights as relate to climate change).

3.00-3.15 Introduction

Prof. Dagmar Schiek, PI EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on 'EU Integration and Citizens' Rights, School of Law, University College Cork

Prof. Andrew Cottey, Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork

3.15-4.45 Panel 1: The EU and Global Human Rights

Chair – Dr Luigi Lonardo

‘EU Foreign Policy and Human Rights’, Professor Karen E Smith, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science

‘Authoritarian Powers and Global Human Rights’, Professor Alex Dukalskis, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin

‘The EU, China and Human Rights: Old and New Agendas’, Prof. Andrew Cottey, Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork

4.45-5.00 break

5.00-6.30 Panel 2

Chair – Prof. Andrew Cottey

‘EU Trade Policy between Constitutional Openness and Strategic Autonomy’, Dr Isabella Mancini, School of Law, Brunel University and Dr Gesa Kübek, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen

‘The relationship between the legal principle of autonomy and strategic autonomy. Conceptions, limits, normative assessments’, Dr Luigi Lonardo, School of Law, University College Cork

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Video - Panel 1 Discussion