Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Plenary sessions

The plenary sessions will take place in the lecture hall of the Catholic Academy and simultaneous translation into English will be provided throughout. Headphones are available on request at the registration counter.

Talk” Foreign Policy Challenges for Germany and Europe”
Prof. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Ischinger
Following the lecture, there will be a short “Q & A” between Professor Fuest and Professor Ischinger. If you would also like to participate in the Q & A session, please feel free to use one of the blank question forms available at the counter. These will be collected at the beginning of the “Q & A” session and handed to Professor Fuest.

Working groups

Working groups will also take place at the Catholic Academy.

Working Group 1 | Prof. Dr. Djeffal | Viereckhof, Ground Floor
Working Group 2 | Prof. Dr. Roth | Kardinal Wendel Haus, Vortragssaal
Working Group 3 | Prof. Dr. Polzin | Kardinal Wendel Haus, Kardinal Wendel Bibliothek
Working Group 4 | Prof. Dr. Waldhoff | Kardinal Wendel Haus, Konferenzraum
Working Group 5 | Prof. Dr. Da Conceição-Heldt | Viereckhof, Heuboden (only in English)
Working Group 6 | Prof. Dr. Schmalenbach | Viereckhof, Upper Floor

Congress Dinner

The Congress Dinner will take place at the Seehaus im Englischen Garten Restaurant, which is a 10 minute walk away from the Catholic Academy. There will be also a courtesy bus transfer:
departing from the Catholic Academy at 6.15 p.m.
returning to the Catholic Academy from the restaurant at 9.00 p.m.

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Would you like to participate in the plenary discussion? For this purpose, you can either use the above-mentioned blank question forms and/or, if you wish, approach one of the microphones in the hall.
In view of the planned publication of the congress proceedings, it is essential that you state your name when you join the discussion.
One final request for the event as a whole: Please wear your name badge for the full duration of the Congress. The badge makes communication easier and also serves as legitimation for admission. Please remember to return the badge at the end of the Congress.

10 a.m.

Words of Welcome
Dr. Ludolf-Georg von Wartenberg, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation, Berlin

Introduction to the Congress
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest, President of the ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich e.V.

10.30

Europe on the move? – The Economies and Legal Systems of Europe

Talk

Foreign Policy Challenges for Germany and Europe

Ambassador Prof. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Ischinger, former Chairman, Munich Security Conference

11.15

Short break

11.30

Panel discussion

Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer, Judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. Justus Haucap, Director, Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr. Juliane Kokott, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg
Dr. Gerhard Schwarz, President, Progress Foundation, Zurich
Dr. Ursula Weidenfeld, Business Journalist, Berlin
Moderator: Heike Göbel, Business Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

1.00

Congress lunch

2.00

Working groups (until 6 p.m.) – Coffee break at around 4 p.m.

7 p.m.

Dinner for all participants at the Seehaus im Englischen Garten Restaurant

Europe’s Role in the Digital Economy: Between Self-Determination and Dependence

Chair: Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal, Tenure Track Assistant Professor for Law, Science and Technology, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich

Co-Chair (Practice): Nikolaus Hagl, Senior Vice-President for Sales, Public & Energy and Director, SAP Germany, Hallbergmoos

Co-Chair (Journalism): Oliver Voss, Editor, Background Digitalization & AI, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin

Speakers:

Structural Change Through Digitalisation: Poverty Trap or Growth Engine?
Laura Höss M.A., KRITIS College for Postgraduate Research in Critical Infrastructure, Technical University of Darmstadt

Competitiveness of Companies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Johannes Kriebel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Banking, University of Münster

Competition Policy for Digital Platforms and the Role of Gatekeepers in the Proposed Digital Markets Act: Are the proposals for remedial action sufficient from an industrial economics perspective?
Lea Bernhardt M.Sc., Research Associate, Institute of Industrial and General Economics, Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

Europe’s Digital Sovereignty as a Goal and Touchstone of Private Law
PD Dr. Michael Denga LL.M., Research Associate, Institute for Civil, German, European and International Private and Commercial Law, Humboldt University of Berlin

Europe In and After the Coronavirus Pandemic

Chair: Prof. Dr. Steffen J. Roth, Scientific and Managing Director, Institute for Economic Policy, University of Cologne

Co-Chair (Practice): Prof. Randolf Rodenstock, Managing Partner, Optische Werke G. Rodenstock GmbH & Co. KG, Munich

Co-Chair (Journalism): Heike Göbel, Business Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Speakers:

The Financial Burden Placed on Households by the Coronavirus Measures – What do we Know About How Different Citizens are Affected?
Jana Hamdan M.Sc., Research Associate, Department of World Economics, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin

Trust in Government During the Pandemic – How Do we Explain Coronavirus Compliance?
Jana Boukemia B.A., Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of Basel

The Advantages and Disadvantages of International Value Chains – Will the Pandemic Lead to a Reassessment of the Global Division Of Labour?
Saskia Meuchelböck M.Sc., Department of Business Cycles and Growth, International Trade and Investment, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Legal Controls on Foreign Direct Investment – Is the EU Abandoning the Principle of Open Markets Because of the Pandemic?
Samed R. Sahin, Research Associate, Chair of Public Law, European Law and Public Economic Law, University of Augsburg

The EU and the Green New Deal: A Prospect for the Future or a Dead End? A Multidisciplinary View – From Philosophy to Literary Studies

Chair: Prof. Dr. Monika Polzin, Professor of Public Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Co-Chair (Practice): Jörg Migende, Chief Development Officer Agriculture and Technology, Head of Corporate Public Affairs, BayWa AG, Munich

Co-Chair (Journalism): Axel Bojanowski, Chief Science Reporter, DIE WELT, Berlin

Speakers:

Buzzwords as Climate Policy: Distortion or Help?
Mag. theol. Thomas Sojer, Research Associate, Chair for Philosophy, University of Erfurt

The Lack of Democracy and Enforcement in EU Climate Law
Dr. Jacqueline Lorenzen, Research Associate, Institute for German and European Administrative Law, Heidelberg University

Conditional Cooperation as a Solution – Will the EU New Green Deal Bring Progress?
Dr. Felix Kölle, Research Associate, Chair of Prof. Dr. Axel Ockenfels, Department of Economics, University of Cologne

Between Ecotopia and Apocalypse: European Visions of the Future in Literature
Florian Rogge M.A., Research Associate, Project Cassandra, Global Ethic Institute, University of Tübingen

The Financing of the EU: Between Over-Indebtedness and Inflationary Policies?

Chair: Prof. Dr. Christian Waldhoff, Chair of Public Law and Financial Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Co-Chair (Practice): MinDir a.D. Prof. Dr. Hans Hofmann, former Head, Department V, State, Constitutional and European Law, Federal Ministry of Internal, Construction and Homeland Affairs, Berlin; Faculty of Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Co-Chair (Journalism): Dr. Marc Beise, Head, Business Section, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

Speakers:

Europe’s Hamilton Moment – Fiscal Union Through Debt?
David Eisendle LL.M., Legal Secretary to Judge Andreas Kumin, Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg

How to Pevent European State Budgets Suffering from Long Covid. A Proposal for Reforming the EU’s Fiscal Rules
Marcell Göttert M.Sc., Research Associate, Agenda Austria, Vienna

Price Inflation as a Target of Monetary Policy in the Euro Area
Dr. Karl-Friedrich Israel, Assistant Professor, Faculté de droit, d’économie et de gestion, Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers

With Whom Do We Share What, When and Why? Negotiating Institutionalised Solidarity and the Next-Generation EU COVID-19 Recovery Package
Dr. Johanna Mugler, Research Associate, Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern

Financial Contributions with a Steering Effect – A New Source of EU Funding and its Problems
Dr. Christian Neumeier LL.M., Research Associate, Institute of Public and Financial Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Resetting Europe’s Institutions: Overcoming Deadlock Through Formal and Informal Mechanisms (only in English)

Chair: Prof. Dr. Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, Chair of European and Global Governance, School of Governance, Technical University of Munich

Co-Chair (Practice): Prof. Dr. Klaus von Brocke, Partner, International Tax Law Department, Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Munich; Europa Institut, Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Co-Chair (Journalism): Dr. Werner Mussler, Business Correspondent, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Brussels

Speakers:

We in Europe? How European integration divides the Europeans
David Hilpert M.A., Research Associate, Collaborative Research Centre 884 “The Political Economy of reforms”, University of Mannheim

Between deadlock and compromise in Brussels: EU soft law as a way out?
Anne Ausfelder M.A., Research Associate, Center for Comparative Politics of Germany and France, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin

Reshaping Europe’s Institutions Through Collective Intelligence
Dane Gambrell B.Sc., Associate Fellow, The Governance Lab, Northeastern University, New York

Shaping european and global security with military means: Unlock EU’s potential to act within the framework of the Common Security and Defense Policy
Dr. Kristina Isabel Schmidt, Research Associate, Chair of Prof. Dr. Udo di Fabio, University of Bonn

E-Government
Fabian Ruthardt M.A., M.Sc., M.Sc., doctoral candidate, Department of Finance, Economic Policy and Political Economy, ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Munich

Where is the Integration Compass Pointing? Towards More or Less Europe

Chair: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Schmalenbach, Department of International Law, European Law and Fundamentals of Law, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg

Co-Chair (Practice): Botschafter Gregor Schusterschitz, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Representation of Austria to the European Union, Brussels

Co-Chair (Journalism): Silke Wettach, EU Correspondent, WirtschaftsWoche, Brussels

Speakers:

Subsidiarity. A Success Formula for Europe?
Marwin Kerlen, Research Associate, Institute of Theory of the State, Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Göttingen

The Integration of the European Union into the United Nations as a Way of Representing “European” Values Abroad
Dipl.-Jur. Frederike Hirt, Research Associate, Chair of Public Law and Administrative Science, Leibniz Universität Hannover

„Legal Distancing“ precluded? – More European Union within Europe
Anne Marleen Könneke, Research Associate, Chair of Public Law and European Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Europe and the Language of Power
Vladimir Stosic M.A., Research Assistant, Henry Kissinger Professorship, CASSIS – Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies, University of Bonn

Not One but Many: The Challenges and Opportunities Offered by the Diversity of European Integration Processes
Dr. Andreas N. Ludwig, Research Associate, Institute of International Relations, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt

European Values as European Identity – The Intercultural Dialogue with Russia
Jan Santner M.A., Research Associate, National Graduate College 1956: Cultural Transfer and ‘cultural Identity’. German-Russian Contacts in the European Context, University of Freiburg

9 a.m.

Word of Welcome
Barbara Frenz, Managing Director, Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation

9.05

Chaired discussion by journalists of the theme of the Congress incorporating the ideas and proposals put forward by the young researchers in the working groups:
Dr. Marc Beise, Head, Business Section, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
Axel Bojanowski, Chief Science Reporter, DIE WELT, Berlin
Heike Göbel, Business Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Dr. Werner Mussler, Business Correspondent, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Brussels
Oliver Voß, Editor, Background Digitalization & AI, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin
Silke Wettach, EU Correspondent, WirtschaftsWoche, Brüssel
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest President of the ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich e.V.

10.30

Coffee break

11.00

Europe on the Move – International Dependencies

Talk
Former Prime Minister Prof. Mario Monti, President, Bocconi University, Milan;
Former EU Commissioner for the Internal Market and subsequently for Competition

Panel Discussion
Prof. Dr. Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, Chair of European and Global Governance, School of Governance, Technical University of Munich
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest
Prof. Mario Monti
Frank Sieren, Journalist, Documentary filmmaker and Author, Beijing
Moderator: Dr. Marc Beise

1.15 p.m.

Closing remarks
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest

To be followed by a closing reception (with refreshments)