Seminar On The European Constitutional Process

The well-known Constitutional Law expert, Gomes Canotilho, Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, will be the speaker at the Seminar on “The Constitutional Process of the EU: The New Constitutionalism –The European Constitution as a Problem” that will start tomorrow, 27 June, at 6:30 pm, at the auditorium of the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (Luso-International Bank Building, 18th floor). Included in the Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, the seminar is taking place daily, until the end of the week, during two hours after-work. The first part of the seminar, which is under the title of “Three items: three problems”, will discuss the topics “The constitutionalism as a multilevel constitutionalism”, “The new constitutionalism and the demands for a good governance” and “The new constitutionalism and the network of legal orders”. The second part of the seminar will be entitled “The constitutionalism and the weaknesses of Constitutions: the European debate” and will discuss the topics “Constitutionalism and migrations”, “Constitutionalism and economic dislocations”, “ Constitutionalism and multiple citizenships”, “Constitutionalism and social models”, “Constitutionalism and the policies of security and national defence” and “Constitutionalism and universalisation of principles”. The seminar is organised by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre and will be conducted in Portuguese. The seminar targets Law degree holders and is already counting on the attendance of around forty participants. The Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, which incorporates this seminar, has as its main objective the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System” and is already in its fourth and last year, taking place until February 2006. The total budget for the programme is of 1.980.000 euros, shared in equal parts by the European Union and Macao. The co-ordination of the Co-operation Programme is at the responsibility of the International Law Office, being the organisation of the pertaining activities ensured by several other entities of the MSAR’s Government, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services and the Institute of European Studies, other than the International Law Office itself.