Observatory on European Studies _ OVERVIEW: First Jean Monnet Network – BRIDGE Seminar unites authorities, researchers, students and law professionals
On March 15, 2021, the University of Lisbon (Portugal) held the first Jean Monnet Network – BRIDGE Seminar. Organized by Professor Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, partner of the BRIDGE Project, the online conference discussed “Trade and investment relations between the European Union and Latin America”.
The activities of the event where divided into two distinct moments. First, a workshop for the presentation of previously selected papers. Second, a Seminar with the participation of several authorities specialized in the theme.
The Workshop counted with the presentation of 12 (twelve) papers previously selected through the Call for Papers launched in December 2020, and was attended by 60 (sixty) people.
Participantes were welcomed by Nuno Cunha Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa) and Naiara Posenato (Universitá degli Studi di Milano). Keynote speeches were made by Elizabeth Accioly (Universidade Europeia de Lisboa) and Maria João Palma (Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa).
The selected articles are written by researchers from nine different universities. Presentation was split into two sessions, and each author was allocated 10 minutes to present its work.
First Session, conducted by Manuel Becerra-Ramirez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), counted with the following presentations:
- Carlos Francisco Molina del Pozo - Universid de Alcalá, Spain:
Las relaciones eurolatinoamericanas en el marco de la nueva política comercial de la Unión Europea
- Gabriela Teresita Mastaglia - Faculdad Teresa de Ávila (PUC), Argentina:
Sistema de solución de controversias en materia de inversiones en los tratados negociados por la unión europea con méxico y el mercosur ( 2019/2020). Un estudio comparativo
- Giulia D'Agnone - Università di Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy:
Environmental conditionality in EU-Latin America trade relations
- Marcel Zernikow – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
A cooperação jurídica dentro da União Europeia e do Mercosul: a agilização do processo civil internacional no âmbito da Regionalização
- Nancy Eunice Alas Moreno - Universidad Doshisha, Japan:
La integración centroamericana y el Acuerdo de Asociación entre esa región y la Unión Europea
- Rafael Tamayo-Álvarez - Universidad del Rosario, Colombia:
El Derecho de los Tratados en el arbitraje de inversión intra-Unión Europea
- Silvia Simonit - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina:
Unión Europea-América Latina y el Caribe: Comercio e Inversión. Acuerdo de asociación Unión Europea-Mercosur: su pilar comercial y potenciales efectos en el sector agroindustrial
The Second Session of the workshop was conducted by Walter Arévalo (Universidad de Rosario, Colombia), and the following articles were presented:
- Thiago Ferreira Almeida - Universidade Federal de Minas Geral, Brazil:
A Antropofagia das Economias Emergentes: de importadores a exportadores de capital e de tomadores a formadores do Direito Internacional do Investimento
- Godofredo Agustín Ortiz - Universidad del Salvador, Argentina:
El sistema de solución de controversias del acuerdo de libre comercio Unión Europea-Mercosur: hacia um nuevo tipo de arbitraje
- Patrícia Dante - Universidad de la República, Uruguay:
Hacia una transición justa a la economía circular
- Inês Freire dos Santos - Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal:
Acórdão Schrems II: um muro às relações comerciais entre Brasil e Portugal?
- Anna Karoliny Alexandre Fonseca - Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil:
Investment mediation as a feasible option to resolve disputes within the scope of the Mercosur-European Union agreement
The best articles will now be selected by the Organization Committee and will be published in the first edition of the Latin American Journal of European Studies. The top two articles also will receive a cash prize for their work.
Other selected papers will be published in the Seminar Annals organized by AAFDL Publisher.
The Seminar was attended by 120 (one hundred and twenty) people and discussed “Trade and investment relations between the European Union and Latin America”. Opening ceremony was conducted by Eduardo Paz Ferreira (Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa), Paula Vaz Freire (Director - Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa) and António Cruz Serra (Dean - Universidade de Lisboa).
The event counted with the participation of authorities specialized in the theme: Augusto Santos Silva, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs of Portugal; José Manuel Fernandes, Member of the European Parliament; Ignacio Ybañez, Ambassador of the European Union to Brazil; Carmen Moreno Toscano, Undersecretary of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico; and Santiago Deluca, Former Secretary of the Mercosur Permanent Review Tribunal.
To mark the end of the event, organizers Nuno Cunha Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa / BRIDGE Project Partner) and Aline Beltrame de Moura (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/ BRIDGE Project Coordinator) gave the final remarks.
