Mattias Kumm (WZB Berlin/NYU)

The conference “EU Constitutional Imagination: Between Ideology And Utopia”, which took place at the University of Copenhagen on 1 and 2 November 2018, investigated the EU’s constitutional imagination, its history and present condition. It examined the core ideas and premises as both utopia and ideology - enabling, but possibly also hampering the project of European integration. The focus was both on the EU level (various conceptions of EU constitutionalism as they were emerging in its history) and the Member States: how the EU constitution was made to fit the national constitutional imaginaries and how one has influenced “the other”.
More information on the conference and the related project led by Professor Jan Komárek can be found here: jura.ku.dk/ico....