Parliaments in Europe after Lisbon - Main contents

On 23-24 February 2012 the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht, in cooperation with the OPAL network and with financial support from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the City of Maastricht, organized a large and highly successful international conference on the role of parliaments in Europe after the Lisbon Treaty.

The conference's multi-disciplinary approach brought together young researchers and preeminent scholars from constitutional law, comparative politics and public administration, and combined academic debate with input from practitioners, including senior staff from national parliaments across Europe.

In total over 100 participants attended the event, which took place in the Crowne Plaza Hotel Maastricht. Speakers included Enrique Barón Crespo, former president of the European Parliament; Jens-Peter Bonde, former member of the European Parliament; Eniko Györi, Hungarian minister of EU affairs; Lord John Roper, member of the British House of Lords; and Michael Shackleton, Head of the UK Information Office of the European Parliament and professor at Maastricht University.

The event once again underlined Maastricht's solid international reputation as a leading center of parliamentary studies and European governance.