De oorsprong van UNU-CRIS ligt in het Brugse Europacollege, het oudste opleidingscentrum voor Europese postuniversitaire studies in de wereld. In het kader van haar onderzoeksactiviteiten worden interessante workshops georganiseerd. The Bruges Research Initiative for Opening the Social Sciences vzw (BRIOSS) lanceerde samen met het Europacollege en UNU een onderzoeks- en trainingsinitiatief rond regionale integratie (UNU-CRIS) in 2000 waarvan de Belgische Professor, Dr. Luk Van Langenhove directeur is. Graag informeren we U over volgende workshops :
The EU is a promoter of FTAs, as part of broader agreements, with non-European parties. Over the last two decades a few trends have been observed: the growing scope of the new generation FTAs covering more and more non-tariff issues (FDI, IPRs, services) including the Singapore issues not dealt with at the WTO; the growing contestation of this type of agreements by civil society, interest groups and sometimes governments; and judicialization of trade policy due to the growing tensions between the contents of new generation FTAs and constitutional rights and the implementation of new instruments to protect these individual and/or collective rights. The aim of the workshops is to start a systematic assessment of this problématique by studying, first, how European courts have been dealing with these potential sources of conflict, and second, how courts in partner countries and regions deal with it, especially where activist courts are operating. In this context, UNU-CRIS will organise two workshops to discuss the interaction between constitutional rights and free trade agreements. Both workshops will be held on 16 and 17 February 2012.
The first workshop (16 February 2012) will assess the inter connections between such rights in FTAs within the EU proper.
The second (17 February 2012) will present the issues from the perspective of EU’s trade partners.
Both workshops will take place in Bruges.
A limited number of participants will be allowed to attend the workshops for free,
by sending prior expressions of interest to Sofie Dewilde : sdewilde@cris.unu.edu
