My first podcast is on the ECJ-case against Hungary on European Values. In view of the ECJ's verdict on 21/04/26 Antoine Bailleux and I discuss the increasing use of values before the ECJ (and the risks). Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6Y23...
Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/s...
On 21/04, the European Court of Justice will rule in a historic case: European Commission against Hungary, over anti‑LGBT laws. In our podcast, Wim Weymans speaks with UCLouvain European law professor Antoine Bailleux.
#European_values #Hungary #ECJ #Orban #LGBTQ+
fcee.podbean.com/e/antoine_ba...
1/ The starting point:
Orbán did not build an illiberal democracy. He built an authoritarian regime: an illiberal kleptocracy with institutional cover.
I am proud to be Hungarian.
We were able to bring down a massive, seemingly invincible authoritarian regime. Honestly? I can hardly believe it. Thanks to everyone who helped us do this in Europe and elsewhere 🙏🏻
The EU is sitting on €6.4 *billion* in grants for Hungary
With a likely constitutional majority enabling Magyar to govern with a freehand, I suspect that money will flow quickly
Ukraine's €90bn loan will also be approved
Hungary will now move into the European mainstream
[Event]
The Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB welcomes you to the seminar :
'Cultural War or Mimetic Conflict? Illiberalism as Legitimacy in Contemporary Europe.
With Harald Wydra (University of Cambridge)
Wednesday, the 8th of April at 12:00
Kant Room
F.D. Roosevelt Av, 39, 1050 Bxl
Why, when, and how did #europeanvalues over their rivals as a tool to legitimize the European project? Find out in this new essay "Young and Ambivalent. A New Look at the Recent
Rise of European Values, Their History, Precursors and Critics" (open access) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
✊ Hoe werd popmuziek een instrument voor verzet in Oost-Europa? Peter Vermeersch volgde jonge muzikanten in Belarus. Hij vertelt over zijn reis. https://loom.ly/plbrxE0
🤝 @paxchristivl.bsky.social @uitgeverijsu.bsky.social
Programme of the Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past" Annual Conference 2025 "Re-Visions of History in Right-Wing Populism and the Far Right. European and Global Perspectives. Mondey 8 September - Wednesday 10 September at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Schumannstraße 8, 10117 Berlin.
Programme of the Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past" Annual Conference 2025 "Re-Visions of History in Right-Wing Populism and the Far Right. European and Global Perspectives. Mondey 8 September - Wednesday 10 September at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Schumannstraße 8, 10117 Berlin.
Programme of the Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past" Annual Conference 2025 "Re-Visions of History in Right-Wing Populism and the Far Right. European and Global Perspectives. Mondey 8 September - Wednesday 10 September at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Schumannstraße 8, 10117 Berlin.
Programme of the Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past" Annual Conference 2025 "Re-Visions of History in Right-Wing Populism and the Far Right. European and Global Perspectives. Mondey 8 September - Wednesday 10 September at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Schumannstraße 8, 10117 Berlin.
Save the date: Our Conference "Re-Visions of history in right-wing populism and the far right. European and global perspectives"
📆 8-10 September 2025
📍 Schumannstr. 8, 1017 Berlin
The conference is a collaboration with @boell.de and @maxweberstiftung.de
Register: calendar.boell.de/en/event/re-...
New publication, open access: Happy to see this last and maybe most important article of my PhD research published. I argue that liberal democracies cannot require 'shared values', neither of migrants (only), as is the case for the integration requirement... (1/4)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bart Verheijen: Het zoeken naar zondebokken zal de democratie blijvend beschadigen www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
'Democratie is niet iets hinderlijks op het pad van sterk leiderschap en goed bestuur. Het maakt er integraal deel van uit.'
👉 Mijn opinie in De Tijd via www.tijd.be/opinie/colum...
EU ROL - New JCMS article of interest out 'Money Talks? The Effectiveness of Sanctions in the ‘Rule of Law’ Conflict in the European Union'
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Another recent open-access book some will find interesting: Inside Asylum Appeals by Nick Gill and others. It's a comparative study involving observations of appeal hearings + research interviews covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the UK. www.routledge.com/Inside-Asylu...
Hongarije schendt de waarden van artikel 2 van het EU-verdrag. Belangrijke conclusie van de advocaat-generaal bij het Hof van Justitie. Definitief arrest in het najaar curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...
[Event]
The Institut d'études européennes ULB welcomes you to the Book pre-launch Debate: 'What do judges do, and how do they perceive their role when democracy is under strain?'
June the 5th at 5pm.
[Média]
«Mémoire, histoire, symboles : à la recherche du récit européen»
Une interview de François Foret, Professeur à SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), à Ouest France.
www.ouest-france.fr/europe/debat...
20 out of the 27 EU countries today signed a declaration condemning Viktor Orban's ban on pride parades in Hungary.
The map very much resembles the old iron curtain divide, with the glaring exception of 🇮🇹Italy which has joined with Hungary and 5 other Eastern European countries in refusing to sign.
#SaveTheDate
Le 26 mai 2025, nous explorons la désobéissance sous toutes ses formes, du Moyen Âge à nos jours !
10ᵉ journée d’étude #ModerNum à la KBR (Bruxelles).
Programme & inscriptions : modernum.hypotheses.org/je2025
#histoire #recherche #colloque
Interested in The Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience? Then this conference and CALL FOR PAPERS 👇(to mark the 75th anniversary of the ECHR (and the 35th anniversary of the Venice Commission) might be for you. www.linkedin.com/posts/centre...
In this year's Speech to Europe, @leaypi.bsky.social tackled the crisis of political belonging and the projection of systemic failure onto those denied inclusion.
Watch one of this week's most popular IWM YouTube videos here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RPW...
New EU ROL/constititional crisis book of interest to add to the reading list - 'Saving the European Union from its Illiberal Member States' www.waterstones.com/book/saving-...
Thanks for the article. As many say at these days "We are not America!". Europe remains based on social values and its excellence remains research on society and humanities as a proud seal of civilisation.
If you have 25 minutes on VE weekend do yourself a favour and listen to this Arte interview (in 🇬🇧) with colleague @fromtga.bsky.social on where we are in Europe.
If we're serious about learning from history, we should know that Europe can stand the current winds and "nothing in life is inevitable".
We nodigen u graag uit voor de boekvoorstelling van Polsslag, het nieuwe boek van Peter Vermeersch.
22 Mei 2025, 19:30 (deuren),
Campus Corso, Diestestraat 253, Leuven
R.S.V.P soc.kuleuven.be/lines/fcee/n...
Voor meer informatie over het boek, bezoek www.petervermeersch.net
#Belarus #kuleuven
[Rayonnement]
Vendredi 16 mai à 12h15, Justine Lacroix, Professeure à SciencePo ULB (Centre de théorie politique), présentera un séminaire intitulé :
«Les valeurs de l'Europe, un enjeu démocratique»
à l'invitation de l'Institut de sociologie
Salle Rokkan
12e niveau du bât. S
Av. Jeanne, 44
1050 Bxl
👆Truth is up for election & #journalism is on the frontlines—can it still defend #democracy in the age of #AI & disinformation?
This event will bring together voices from European newsrooms, academia & policy.
📅When?
Monday 28.04, 12.30–19.00
📍Where?
Norway House,Brussels
www.uib.no/en/brussels-...
[Activité]
Le REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale vous invite au séminaire
«La Trahison des mots. Notes sur le langage abîmé de la guerre de Gaza».
Avec Didier Fassin (Professeur au Collège de France)
Le 14 mai à 12h00
Auditoire Lallemand.
🚨🚨A delegation of EU lawmakers visiting Hungary has called on @ec.europa.eu to bring an action before the CJEU to suspend a new law banning Budapest Pride, as they criticised a “very hostile atmosphere” for LGBTQ+ people in the country. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
