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Academic conference on 30 years Maastricht Treaty: the past, present, and future of European Integration
28 September 2022 | 09:00–29 September 2022 | 18:00
| Spoken language: English
Maastricht University and Studio Europa Maastricht are organising a free interdisciplinary academic conference to discuss the Maastricht Treaty through a European socioeconomic perspective. The conference will be held on 28 and 29 September, directly following the EMU public conference Euro at 20: shifting paradigms?, also being held in Maastricht on 27 September.
The conference will facilitate critical, but constructive, academic dialogue on the Maastricht Treaty’s legacy through sessions in the following areas:
- Decision-making and legal considerations
- Re-examining convergence and homogeneity
- Solidarity and identity
- Peace, security and criminology
- Social and trade affairs
- Democracy, populism and authoritarianism
- Democratisation, politicisation and citizenship
- Union of digital innovation and the digital euro
- Wages, prices and European enterprises
- Fiscal sovereignty challenges and recent developments
During the conference, there will also be keynote lectures by Prof Thomas Pikkety and Prof Paul De Grauwe.