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SUMMARY: Can Europe Pay for Its Future? EU Fiscal Capacity in an Age of Cri
 ses
DESCRIPTION: The Harvard European Law Association is pleased to host Federi
 co Fabbrini for a lunch talk on Tuesday\, March 24\, from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m
 . in Hauser Hall 102. Federico Fabbrini is Full Professor of EU Law at Dubl
 in City University\, in Ireland\, and currently a Fulbright Schuman Fellow 
 in International Security at the Kennedy School at […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <div>The Harvard European Law Association is 
 pleased to host Federico Fabbrini for a lunch talk on Tuesday\, March 24\, 
 from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in Hauser Hall 102. Federico Fabbrini is Full Profe
 ssor of EU Law at Dublin City University\, in Ireland\, and currently a Ful
 bright Schuman Fellow in International Security at the Kennedy School at Ha
 rvard: <a href="https://www.belfercenter.org/people/federico-fabbrini">http
 s://www.belfercenter.org/people/federico-fabbrini</a>. Prof. Fabbrini is th
 e Founding Director of the Brexit Institute / Dublin European Law Institute
  and is the Principal Investigator of the Jean Monnet Network PROSPER and o
 f the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence COMPETE. He holds a PhD from the Eur
 opean University Institute and is the author or editor of over 20 books\, i
 ncluding 5 monographs with Oxford University Press.</div><div></div><div>Th
 e European Union (EU) has recently faced a number of crises\, from the pand
 emic to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine\, from the challenge of 
 global economic competitiveness to disruption in transatlantic relations in
  the Trump era. These crises affect the EU's economic prosperity and addres
 sing them is expensive. In this talk\, based on his recent book "EU Fiscal 
 Capacity: Legal Integration after Covid-19 and the War in Ukraine" (Oxford 
 University Press: <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/eu-fisca
 l-capacity-9780198874232?cc=us&lang=en&">https://global.oup.com/academic/pr
 oduct/eu-fiscal-capacity-9780198874232?cc=us&lang=en&</a>). Prof. Federico 
 Fabbrini explains how in recent year the EU has slowly but steadily expande
 d its fiscal powers. At the same time\, it underlines how the EU faces stru
 ctural legal constraints in consolidating a centralized fiscal capacity\, a
 nd discusses how that threatens the EU's ability to respond to geo-strategi
 c changes that would require it to invest more on its own defence and econo
 mic resilience.</div><div></div><div>Lunch will be provided.</div><div></di
 v><div><b>Tuesday\, March 24\, 2026\, </b>12:30 to 1:15 PM</div><div>Harvar
 d Law School\, Hauser Hall 102</div><div></div><div>RSVP</div>
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ORGANIZER;CN="Daniel Gosch":MAILTO:dgosch@llm26.law.harvard.edu
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 eu-fiscal-capacity-in-an-age-of-crises/
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