‘BARRIERS’ TO THE EXERCISE OF EU CITIZENSHIP’S RIGHTS. FACTUAL AND LEGAL ANALYSIS12 May 2016Faculty of Law, Room A via Verdi, 53 - Trento

The bEUcitizen project focuses on the barriers to realise and exercise EU citizenship rights, from different perspectives: social, political, legal, linguistic, economical, etc. Part of the project’s research specifically deals with legal issues, and investigates how and to what extent the enjoyment of economic and civil rights of EU citizens is effective or rather hampered by specific obstacles. The research carried out so far has shown a variety of barriers to EU citizenship in different fields of the law. Despite the shift of the EU Commission towards maximum harmonisation, fragmentation and lack of coordination are still likely to characterise the relations among European, national and regional regulations on many issues affecting EU citizens’ rights, as well as the praxis related to the concrete application and enforcement of the related provisions. An in depth analysis of the different levels (EU primary and secondary law, national law, regional rules, etc.) and of the different nature (legal, factual, economical, administrative, pathological - e.g. bad quality of legislation, lack of coordination among the different institutions and bodies involved - etc.) of the plurality of barriers that still exist to realise and exercise EU citizenship rights is thus needed. The Trento seminar therefore aims at stimulating an interdisciplinary and comparative dialogue among experts and young scholars on the bEUcitizen key concept of “barrier” and on different kinds of hindrances, with the purpose of a scientific and critical categorization of them.

14.30 Welcome address

Prof. Giuseppe Nesi, Professor of International and European Law, Dean of Trento Faculty of Law

14.40 Project presentation

bEUcitizen from the Unitn perspectiveProf. Elena Ioriatti, Trento University

Chair prof. Elena Ioriatti15.00 Key note speaker

Prof. Sybe de Vries, bEUcitizen project coordinator, Utrecht University

15. 30 First Round Table

From legal towards factual barriers to the exercise of EU citizenship’s rightsDr. Flavio Guella, Trento UniversityDr. Paolo Guarda, Trento UniversityDr. Teresa Solis Santos, Antwerp University

16.30 Coffee break

Chair prof. Sybe de Vries17.00 Key note speaker

Prof. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Oxford University.

17.30 Second Round Table

From factual towards legal barriers to the exercise of EU citizenship’s rightsDr. Silvia Adamo, Copenhagen UniversityDr. Maribel Gonzalez Pascual, Pompeu Fabra University BarcellonaDr. Elisabetta Pulice, Trento University

18.30 Conclusions

Prof. Luisa Antoniolli, Trento University

Scientific coordinationUnitn team bEUcitizen

Info Organization Secretariat Faculty of Law tel. +39 0461 281844 fax +39 0461 281874 eventi.giurisprudenza@unitn.it giorgia.sartori@unitn.it

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