08:15 – 09:00                                 

ARRIVAL OF PARTICIPANTS AND REGISTRATION
Welcome coffee and refreshments 

09:00 – 09:20

WELCOME ADDRESS AND SETTING THE SCENE

  • Pierre Gramegna, Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism    
  • David Eatough, General Counsel at the European Stability Mechanism

09:20 – 09:45

KEYNOTE SPEECH

Pringle as a landmark judgment for the EU constitutional fabric

  • Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union    

09:45 – 10:55

PRINGLE AND OTHER EUROPEAN CASES

Meaning and significance of the Pringle judgment and other court decisions relevant for the European Stability Mechanism delivered at European level.

Moderator: Michal Kianička, Senior Legal Counsel at the European Stability Mechanism
Panel:

  • Michael Ioannidis, Lead Legal Counsel at the European Central Bank and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law 
  • Heikki Kanninen, Judge at the General Court of the European Union 
  • Anastasia Karatzia, Senior Lecturer in Law at the Essex Law School 
  • Gabriela Olariu, Team Lead in the Legal Division at the European Stability Mechanism 
  • Andrea Westerhof Löfflerová, Legal Adviser in the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union

10:55 – 11:15

COFFEE BREAK

11:15 – 12:20

NATIONAL DIMENSION

Decision-making of highest national courts related to the European Stability Mechanism – its impact, commonalities, and differences.

Moderator: John Goossen, Senior Legal Counsel at the European Stability Mechanism
Panel:

  • Samo Bardutzky, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at University of Ljubljana 
  • Carri Ginter, Associate Professor of European law at the University of Tartu and Partner at the SORAINEN law firm
  • Suzanne Kingston, Judge at the General Court of the European Union
  • Alexander Thiele, Professor for State Theory and  Public Law at BSP Business and Law School in Berlin
  • Claudia Wutscher, Associate Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business

12:20 – 12:30

SHORT BREAK

12:30 – 13:45

BIGGER PICTURE: CRISES, CROSSROADS, AND EVOLUTION

Crises as shaping factor of institutions and their legal framework. Do new crises require innovative solutions?

Moderator: João Sousa Gião, Acting Head of Legal at the European Stability Mechanism
Panel:

  • Fabian Amtenbrink, Professor of European Union law at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Barbara Balke, Secretary General and General Counsel at the European Investment Bank
  • Clemens Ladenburger, Deputy Director General of the Legal Service of the European Commission
  • Alberto de Gregorio Merino, Director for Economic and Financial Affairs, EU Budget and Structural Funds at the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union
  • Otto Heinz, Head of Financial Law Division at the European Central Bank
  • Karl-Philipp Wojcik, General Counsel of the Single Resolution Board

13:45 - 14:00

CONCLUDING REMARKS

  • David Eatough, General Counsel at the European Stability Mechanism

14:00

LUNCH RECEPTION

ESM Terrace