8 & 9 April 2021: THEMIS Webinar: "Towards Cultural Standardization?"

This year, the THEMIS (The International Legal Network of Excellence) seminar  "Towards Cultural Standardization? The Interplay between (Inter)national and European Economic Law and Culture: How Much ‘Culture’ is Left?", will focus on the interplay between the law regulating the economic policy of states on the one hand and the legal rules that are relevant in the field of cultural policy (including languages).

In the European Union for example, the EU has no exclusive or shared competence in the field of culture and can only support the initiatives taken by Member States. On the other hand, the EU has a strong competence to regulate the internal market. This entails that there is a risk that EU internal market policies can invade the cultural prerogative of member states. Vice versa, national cultural policies may take precedence over EU internal market initiatives as overriding reasons of public interest.

For the programme & registration, please click here.