The video of the event can be found here.

The ruling of the German Constitutional Court of 5 May 2020 on the ECB's Public sector purchase programme deals with the eligibility of a specific bond purchase programme and the scope of the ECB's monetary policy as well as the binding effect of the ECJ's decision in this regard. However, according to some literary commentators, the rationale of the judgment can or must have implications on the conduct of all EU institutions, which would entail consequences for the Union's overall system of competences and the principle of conferral of powers.

How can we move forward constructively? Does the solution lie, for example, in a Court of Conflict of Jurisdiction or in changing the division of competences in the Treaties by reducing Union competences? Or, conversely, is there a need for deeper integration, not least to eliminate deficits in the rule of law in some Member States? Should the current, in principle all-encompassing primacy of Union law be restricted? Should reverse referral questions be introduced to improve cooperation between the ECJ and national constitutional courts? Are changes needed in the respective rules of procedure?

You can look forward to future-orientated short presentations and an open-minded discussion by top-class speakers on the legal and political aspects of the judgement de lege lata and de lege ferenda, within the Union and national framework.

 
Panel
  
Dr. Katarina Barley
Vice-President of the European Parliament

Prof. Dr. Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz
Professor at University Bonn

Prof. Christoph Grabenwarter
President of the Austrian Constitutional Court

Prof. Dr. Dieter Grimm
Former Justice of the German Constitutional Court

Prof. Dr. Heribert Hirte
Chair of the European Law Sub-Committee in the Bundestag (German federal parliament)

Prof. Dr. Angelika Nußberger
Former Vice-President of the ECHR

Prof. Dr. Vasilis Skouris
Former President of the European Court of Justice

Prof. Joseph H. H. Weiler
Professor at NYU School of Law
 
 

Moderated by
 
Prof. Dr. Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff
Former Justice of the German Constitutional Court

Dr. Reinhard Müller
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
 
 
 
The conference takes place from 1:30pm to 5:30pm.
 
 
The event will be simultaneously interpreted into English/German.

Registration by 25 October 2020 via Survey­monkey.
Shortly before the event you will receive a separate mail with the details.

https://dav-international.eu/en/about-dav/events/details/the-ultra-vires-scrutiny-of-the-german-constitutional-court-after-its-pspp-judgment-opportunities-and-risks-for-europe