"Structural change of conflict resolution in Europe"

Third meeting of the working group

Jun 26th, 2017

The interdisciplinary working group “structural change of conflict resolution in Europe” met on  18-19 May at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. A primary focus were the multiple conflicts that manifested and intensified during the European economic and financial crisis. The group especially discussed the emergence of the European competition policy, the changes of socioeconomic conflict constellations through the European integration process, ‘integrative’ and ‘non-integrative’ conflicts, and political and judicial forms of conflict regulation as well as the general role of experts in modern societies and their specific function within the European Union.

The meeting particularly benefited from the insightful guest lectures of Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth) and Florian Rödl (Free University of Berlin). Leucht spoke about the importance of transnational networks for the emergence of the European competition regime; Rödl focused on the changes of conflict constellations and highlighted the loss of power workers’ unions witnessed through the European integration process.