Delors Conference - 75th Anniversary Event (PART II) / 05.02.2025, Bruges campus

In the context of its 75th anniversary, the College of Europe payed a tribute to Jacques Delors, patron of the 2024-2025 promotion of the College.

Jacques Delors has a unique place in the history of the College. In 1994, he inaugurated the Natolin campus, marking a significant moment in the institution’s history — one that resonates particularly this year as we celebrate the opening of our third campus in Tirana. He also served as President of the College’s Administrative Council from 1995 to 2000, leaving an enduring mark on our institution. Throughout his political career and beyond, he consistently placed paramount importance on education and research, which he believed should remain independent and critical to provide policymakers with reliable data and alternative perspectives. Following the time of political celebrations, the College decided to honor its former president by organizing a symposium over two half-days, highlighting his rigorous vision of education and research.

More information: https://www.coleurope.eu/delors-confe...

// Day 2: Delors’ legacies //

Timestamps:
00:00 - Chair of three groups of speakers by Benedetta BRAMBATI (LAW department) and Dmytro KAZAKOV (ECO Department)
04:43 - Economic legacy - by the ECO department
Speaker: Jacques PELKMANS (Senior fellow at CEPS, Visiting Professor at the European Economic Studies Department of the College of Europe): “Explaining EU internal market dynamics under Jacques Delors”
32:35 - Political legacy - by the POL department
Speaker: Michele CHANG (Director of the Transatlantic Affairs programme and Permanent Professor at the European political and governance studies Department of the College of Europe): “The Legacy of the Delors Report for Economic and Monetary Union”
46:50 - EU law legacy - by the LAW department
Inge GOVAERE (Director of Studies at the European Legal Studies Department of the College of Europe): “Legal and regulatory aspects/impacts of the internal market 1992 objective”
01:09:54 - Sasha GARBEN (Permanent Professor at the European Legal Studies Department of the College of Europe): “Delors’ Social Europe… Today”
01:29:08 - Chair of two groups of speakers by Aoife GRIFFIN (IRD department) and Anatole BONNARDEAU (ETI department)
01:33:06 - Integration / Enlargement legacy – by the ETI department. 
Speaker: Igor VIDAČAK, (Director of Studies at the European Transformation and Integration Studies Department of the College of Europe): “How Delors’ legacy continues to inform the the EU’s enlargement policy?”
01:46:16 - Foreign policy legacy - by the IRD department  
Speaker: Sieglinde GSTÖHL (Director of Studies at the EU international relations and diplomacy studies Department of the College of Europe): “‘Falling in love with the internal market?’ The European Economic Area, the EU’s Northern enlargement and lessons learned”
2:12:40 - Q&A
23:54:03 - Conclusive remarks by Didier GEORGAKAKIS: some mysteries of Delor’s ministry

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