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Brindisi, Sala Conferenze dell’Autorità Portuale, April 29-30, 2025
APRIL 29, 2025 – EUROPE
I. – European Citizenship, Identity and Values
09,30 – Registration of Participants
10,00 – Institutional Greetings
MICHELE EMILIANO – President of the Apulian Region
GIUSEPPE MARCHIONNA – Mayor of the Brindisi Municipality
TONY MATARRELLI – President of the Province of Brindisi
VINCENZO LEONE – Extraordinary Commissioner of the Port System Authority of the Southern Adriatic Sea
ANNACHIARA STEFANUCCI – Europe Direct Taranto
10,30 – FIRST PANEL
Chair: Susanna Cafaro
KEYNOTE SPEECH
DOMÈNEC RUIZ DEVESA, UNION OF EUROPEAN FEDERALISTS – Europe at a Turning Point
MAAIKE GEUENS, OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS – Constitutional Identity, Democratic Disconnect, EU institutions, Sovereignty, and Integration
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BARBATO, UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON-SORBONNE – Academic Freedom and Democracy in European Union Law
FRANCESCA SALVATORE AND ANTONIO CASO, ATLANTIC-MEDITERRANEAN RELATIONS STUDY CENTER (CESRAM, LECCE) – Public History as a Strategic Resource for European Citizenship, Identity, and Values
FABIENNE PÉRALDI LENEUF, UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON-SORBONNE – The Independence of the Judiciary as an Aspect of Respect for the Rule of Law: Exporting the European Model
ESRA AKGEMCI, SELCUK UNIVERSITY (TURKEY) – Rethinking the EU’s Role in Promoting Peace, Human Rights, and Democracy Amid Anti-Gender Politics and Right-Wing Populism
SARA POLI, UNIVERSITÀ DI PISA – Citizenship by Investment Programs: Constraints and Conditions Imposed by Treaty Provisions on the European Citizenship and on CFSP
BLEDAR KURTI, UNIVERSITY “ALEKSANDËR MOISIU” DURRES – Today’s Challenges of European Citizenship, Identity and Values
13,30 – LIGHT LUNCH
II. – The European Union in a Changing World
14,30 – Second Panel
Chair: Claudia Morini
EXPERT SPEECH
ANTONIO PARENTI, EUROPEAN COMMISSION – The EU’s Preparedness in Crises: a New Paradigm?
ANA BOJINOVIĆ FENKO AND JULIJA BRSAKOSKA BAZERKOSKA, LJUBJANA UNIVERSITY – European Union’s Contributions in Addressing the Challenges of the Changing World Order: Analysis of EU’s Actorness in the Fields of Conffict Resolution, Digital Sovereignty and Trade
INGRID KIESSLING R., GABRIELA MISTRAL UNIVERSITY (CHILE) – The Strategic Alliance between the European Union and Latin America: Protection of Democracy and Human Rights in the Context of Global Instability
EIRIKUR BERGMANN, BIFROST UNIVERSITY (ICELAND) – Europe’s Security Architecture in an Age of Transactional Diplomacy
15,30 – Coffee Break
MOHAMED SHOKRY, UNIVERSITÀ DEL SALENTO – The European Union’s Migration Governance as a Laboratory in a Changing World
OLEKSIY KANDYUK, UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ – Transatlantic Shift, Strategic Autonomy and Ukraine
CATHERINE VIEILLEDENT, UEF GROUP EUROPE – The Role of the EU in a Post Multilateral World
EXPERT SPEECH
MARIA D’APRILE s CO., UNGSC BRINDISI – UNGSC as a Lab of the UN 2.0
18,00 – Open Debate
APRIL 30, 2025 – WORLD
III. – Values and Tools for a New World Order
10,00 – Institutional Greetings
Fabio Pollice, Rector of Università del Salento
10,15 – First Panel
Chair: Silvia Solidoro
KEYNOTE SPEECH
JAN WOUTERS, LEUVEN UNIVERSITY – Europe and the World: Adapting to a Changing Landscape
JEFFREY GLAUSIUSZ, PAX ORBIS (ISRAEL) – Time to Rebuild
BRIAN T. SCHMITT, CY CERGY PARIS UNIVERSITY – Democracy as a Set of Normative Social Relationships: the IAPD Framework
WOLFGANG PAPE, CENTER FOR UNITED NATIONS CONSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH (BRUSSELS) – Interpopularity Beyond National Borders
LUCA BELGIORNO-NETTIS, NEWDEMOCRACY FOUNDATION (AUSTRALIA) – An Antidote to Identity Politics and Nationalistic Rhetoric
INSPIRATIONAL TALK
JOE WESTON, AUTHOR (US-NETHERLANDS) – Fierce Civility. A Practical Pathway to Transformational Governance
13,00 – LIGHT LUNCH
IV – A World in Transition
14,00 – Second Panel
Chair: Saverio Di Benedetto
SÉRGIO BARBOSA DOS SANTOS SILVA, UNIVERSITÉ DE GÈNÈVE – On the Rise of AI Literacies
NADIA PERRONE, ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (LECCE) – The EU AI Act: How the European Union Fosters the Artificial Intelligence Development while Addressing its Ethical and Legal Implications
TROY DAVIS, WORLD CITIZEN FOUNDATION (STRASBOURG) – The Schuman Method Applied to Global Climate Change: the World Carbon Community
STEFANIA ATTOLINI, UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LYON – AI for the Environment: Earth Monitoring Evolutions and Legal Issues
GABRIELE ROGOLI, UNIVERSITÀ DEL SALENTO – EU Leaders 2030. The New Paradigm of the Green and Digital Transition
BENEDETTO ROLLO, UNIVERSITÀ DEL SALENTO – “Feel Free to Vent Your Fury Here”. How Corporations Use Online Activism to Inffuence Policymaking
CONCLUDING REMARKS
SUSANNA CAFARO, UNIVERSITÀ DEL SALENTO
16,00 – Coffee Break
16,30 – The Discussion Corner
- EU Culture and Values: Raising Awareness – Facilitators: Andrea Rubino, Jacopo Lillo and Elisabetta Marzo
- EU Strategic Autonomy and Defense: Narratives and Public Opinions – Facilitators: Francesco Spera, Fabiana Magnolo and Matteo Fulgenzi
- Defining and Countering Disinformation Industry – Facilitators: Laurids Hempel and Polina Zavershinskaia
17,30 – OPEN ASSEMBLY of the ASSOCIATION FOR SUPRANATIONAL DEMOCRACY
Scientific Committee: Susanna Cafaro, Saverio Di Benedetto, Claudia Morini, Martí Grau Segú, Valerie Saintot, Silvia Solidoro, Francesco Spera
Organizing Committee: Francesco Viggiani, Elisabetta Marzo, Isabella Salsano, Jacopo Lillo, Fabiana Magnolo
Partners: Association for Supranational Democracy, Jean Monnet House- European Parliament, Democracy and Culture Foundation, Union of European Federalists; Democracy without Borders, G100 Global Networking, the Democracy School, Robert Triffin International Foundation, CESUE, Euractiv.it, the Streit Council for a Union of Democracies, Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Italian Association of Scholars of European law (AISDUE); Jean Monnet Chairs and Modules at Università del Salento
Streaming: https://bit.ly/supranationaldemocracy2025
