International Conference 2019

09.00–09.30 Registration

09.30–09.50 Welcome addresses, Auditorium I

• Krzysztof Kozłowski, Vice Rector for Teaching and Student Affairs and Head of the Department of Political Studies, Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
• Ewa Latoszek, President of the Polish European Community Studies Association (PECSA) and Member of the Board of the ECSA-World
• Thomas Behrens, Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland

09.50–10.40 Keynote speeches, Auditorium I

• Edina Lilla Meszaros, University of Oradea, The refugee crisis, the illiberal populist challenge and the future of the EU: is illiberal democracy on the march?
• Réka Friedery, Centre for Social Sciences, The EU Ombudsman and the democratization of the EU
• Joanna Piskorz, University of Warsaw, Rule of law as a condition of EU funding. Comments on the Proposal for a regulation on the protection of the Union's budget in case of generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law in the Member States

• Olga Bogorodetska, University of Warsaw, EU soft power: sharing democratic values
• Anna Skolimowska, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, European Union's evolving international identity
• Kenneth Ka Lok Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong calling: a critical examination of EU's profile during the 2019 anti-government protest
• Tibor Palankai, Corvinus University of Budapest, Gabor Miklos, Corvinus University of Budapest, EU reforms and the nations

• Justyna Dylik, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, European cooperation. Are we a community of fate or an ideological formation?
• Danai-Georgia Koutsopoulou, University of Hamburg, Solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility in the EU at its constitutional and operational dimension including financial implications between the Member States in the field of border checks, asylum and immigration
• Hilmar Þór Hilmarsson, University of Akureyri, Connecting in Europe: The different approaches of the Nordic and the Baltic countries to European integration
• Miklós Somai, Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, The Brexit process and its impact on EU policies and institutions

• Rebecca Kerr, Queen's University Belfast, Social democratic party’s electoral strategies amid social class remobilization
• Zafer Ayvaz, Environmental Journal “Ekoloji”, Proposals and some practices in order to prevent and solve problems arising from individuals of different religions and cultures
• Janusz Balicki, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Religion in the populist discourse regarding the admission of immigrants and refugees from Muslim countries. The case of Central and Eastern Europe

• Małgorzata Dziembała, University of Economics in Katowice, PECSA, The role of EU cohesion policy in promoting innovativeness in Poland
• Carina Kobler, Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies, Lacking interest representation of Mobile workers in the European Union: the case of 24-hour care workers in Austria and Germany
• Denard Veshi, University of New York Tirana, The EU regulatory competition in asylum law

Moderator: Iwona Wrońska, The Jan Kochanowski University

• Aline Beltrame de Moura, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Ordre public and European private international law: the effects of sharia on the European family law (video)
• Aleksandra Borowicz, University of Gdansk, PECSA, FDI screening system in EU – over lapping of competences between MS and EU institutions?
• Monika Stachowiak-Kudła, Warsaw University of Technology, Transnational judicial dialogue in case law related to academic freedom
• Karolina Kiejnich, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Harmonization of EU criminal law – the thing about implementation of EU directives

• Judas Everett, National Research University Higher School of Economics, The future of EU-Russian relations: a common European home?
• Łukasz Kominek, Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Challenges and threats to the concept of the New Silk Road for Europe's economic security
• Anna Wójtowicz, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, PECSA, Common energy policy of the EU – origins, objectives and stages of development

• Małgorzata Godlewska, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, PECSA, Which EU institutions matter for the race of the sharing economy?
• Ewa Żelazna, University of Leicester, The Role of the European Parliament in the shaping of the EU as a normative power in International economic relations
• Anna Visvizi, Deree College – The American College of Greece, PECSA, Artificial intelligence and geopolitics: EU values, freedoms, and principles in focus

• Sinem Bal, University of Nottingham, Refugee crisis and limits of the EU’s human rights norm promotion
• Mateusz Krępa, University of Warsaw, EU, states and NGOs – multi-agency response to refugee crisis and its challenges for EU values
• Marta Górczyńska, University of Warsaw, The urgent need to review the EU-Turkey refugee agreement
• Abdülaziz Ahmet Yasar, Turkish Radio Television (TRT) World, Istanbul Center of International Law (ICIL), Securitizing migration – diverging impacts on the EU’s integration process between the 1980s-2015 and post-2015 years

• Solange Maslowski, Charles University, EU citizenship and values endangered by expulsions of EU citizens on the move
• Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, University of Warsaw, Marta Pachocka, University of Warsaw, “The entire center collects apples and strawberries, depending on the season”. The situation of asylum seekers and refugees on the labour market in Poland – does the legal status matter for the situation of forced migrants?
• Karolina Koviazina, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Yuliya Hoika, University of Warsaw, The birth and development of Polish integration policy
• Alexandr Macuhin, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Integration through migration: the case of the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus
• Iwona Wrońska, The Jan Kochanowski University, Elke Murdock, University of Luxembourg, Accommodation of non-nationals in Luxembourg

• Karolina Owczarek-Korba, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Université Cergy Pontoise, The value of creative element in the process of European integration
• Xiaohai Wang, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Sustainability of the European integration: approaching from the perspective of culture
• Katarzyna Byszek, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Assessing the impact of cross-border healthcare in the EU
• Karolina Gabriel, University of Economics in Katowice, Corporate social responsibility as a strategy of corporations in the European Union