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2022-12-05 14:00
2022-12-05 16:00
Europe/Rome
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's proposal on EU institutional reform
Sala del Torrino Villa Salviati - Castle
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In the first "Constitutional Coffee" of this academic year, this session with Part-time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre, Bruno de Witte, will discuss the legal and political feasibility of the German proposal and its broader political context.
In his August speech at Charles University of Prague, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sets out his vision for an enlarged, reformed EU. Amongst others, his proposals include a stronger reliance on qualified majority voting in the Council and a reformed composition of the European Parliament and Commission. Scholz's speech can be seen as an overdue response to Macron's Sorbonne speech in 2017. It also follows more recent calls for EU institutional reform made by, inter alia, the European Parliament in the wake of the Conference on the Future of Europe and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.