Revisiting the Foundations of the Internal Market

Föreläsare

Ulla Neergaard is Professor in EU Law at the University of Copenhagen. She currently also serves as Guest Professor at the University of Greenland, and she has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford (2015-16).

Her academic foundation was established at the European University Institute in Florence, where she earned her PhD. She has presided over the International Federation for European Law, FIDE (2013–14) and led its 2014 Congress. For over a decade, she has chaired the Danish Association for European Law.

Abstract

The Internal Market has long been recognised as a central achievement of European integration, delivering significant economic, social and geopolitical benefits to citizens, businesses and the European Union as a whole.

As Advocate General Szpunar has observed, the Internal Market, which “constitutes – depending on one’s perspective – the means or the end of the process of European integration, is so fundamental to the Union’s legal order that it is taken as a given and constitutes no less than the central organisational principle of the Treaties”.

Today, however, renewed debates question how the remaining untapped potential of the Internal Market can be realised, and whether its current legal architecture is capable of addressing emerging developments. Europe faces a series of interconnected transitions—the green, digital, security and human rights related transformations—accompanied by economic and geopolitical pressures that challenge the existing model of market integration. Against this backdrop, the seminar aims to revisit the foundations of the EU’s free movement regime, focusing primarily on primary law and the mechanisms of negative integration.

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