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Director Federico Fabbrini speaks at the European Parliament’s LIBE Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group

On Thursday 3 June 2021, 17:00 – 18:30, Federico Fabbrini, Professor of European Law at the School of Law & Government of Dublin City University (DCU) and Founding Director of the DCU Brexit Institute, will deliver a presentation entitled “The Primacy of EU law” at the meeting of the European Parliament’s LIBE (Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group (DRFMG).

The meeting, chaired by the DRFMG Chair, MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld, will involve an exchange of views on the measures taken in the context of the Covid-19 crisis and their impact on democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights. Besides Professor Fabbrini, it will feature the participation of Niels Petersen and Konstantin Chatziathanasiou (Institute for International and Comparative Public Law, University of Münster), Jacques Ziller (Professor of European Union Law at the University of Pavia), Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz (Professor of European and Comparative Law, Director of the Department of European and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk), and Me Pierre Sculier (Ordre des barreaux francophones et Germanophone).

The meeting will be interpreted in the following 4 languages: EN, FR, EL and PL.

Follow the webstreaming of the meeting at: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/committee-on-civil-liberties-justice-and-home-affairs-working-group-drfmg-democracy-rule-of-law-and_20210603-1600-COMMITTEE-LIBE_vd