Bingham Centre/CER/Middlesex University roundtable on 'Enhancing the rule of law in the EU'

Welcome
Ian Bond, Director of Foreign Policy, Centre for European Reform
Murray Hunt, Director, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law

Keynote address
Emmanuel Crabit, Director of Fundamental Rights & Rule of Law, European Commission
Chair: Ian Bond, Director of Foreign Policy, Centre for European Reform

The Rule of Law and shared European values
Hanne Juncher, Head of the Justice and Legal Co-operation Department, Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe
Kaarlo Tuori, Member, Venice Commission, Council of Europe
Chair: Julinda Beqiraj, Associate Senior Research Fellow, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law

Panel 1: Using the Venice Commission Rule of Law Checklist
Petra Bárd, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University; Visiting Professor, Central European University
Sandro Gozi, former Under Secretary for European Affairs, Italy
Zuzanna Rudzińska-Bluszcz, Main Co-ordinator of Court Strategic Proceedings, Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, Poland
Chair: Laurent Pech, Professor and Head of Department Law, Middlesex University

Panel 2: Current and possible new EU mechanisms to support the Rule of Law
Israel Butler, Head of Advocacy, Civil Liberties Union for Europe
Natacha Kazatchkine, Head of Team, EU Internal Policy, Open Society European Policy Institut
Judith Sargentini, Member, European Parliament
Thomas Zerdick, Member of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans' Cabinet, European Commission
Chair: Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform

Summary and concluding remarks
Ian Bond, Director of Foreign Policy, Centre for European Reform