ACELG Annual Conference 2026 on Post-Regulatory EU Law: How Revenue and Spending Reshape the European Polity, University of Amsterdam (Hybrid, 30 November 2026)

The Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG) at the Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam, holds its Annual Conference 2026 under the title Post-Regulatory EU Law: How Revenue and Spending Reshape the European Polity. The conference examines how the EU is increasingly governing not only through rules and regulations but through money: common borrowing, new forms of revenue and expanding spending instruments are giving financial choices a more prominent role in European integration.

The conference is organised by Sabine Mair and Alberto Nicotina.

The EU has traditionally been understood as a polity built through market integration and regulation, with a small budget and limited redistribution. Common borrowing, debates over new own resources and instruments such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Just Transition Fund have moved public finance closer to the centre of integration. The conference considers:

• What challenges for democratic authority and legitimacy arise when the EU raises its own resources and incurs common debt?
• What forms of governance, solidarity or political contestation are gained or lost when money complements or replaces regulation as a mechanism of integration?
• How does the growing use of financial incentives and conditionality shape relationships between the Union, Member States and citizens?

• Keynote lecture: Professor Joseph Weiler, "It's Not What You Do with the Money, Stupid - It's How You Get It! EU Financing as a Challenge to Democracy".
• Panel 1, Who Pays for Europe? Revenue, Debt and the Emergence of Fiscal Authority: Wolfgang Schön (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich), Pascal Saint-Amans (Bruegel, Brussels), Paul Dermine (Université libre de Bruxelles).
• Panel 2, How Does Europe Govern Through What It Spends?: Mark Dawson (Hertie School, Berlin), Menelaos Markakis (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Leticia Díez Sánchez (Maastricht University).
• Panel 3, The Price of Belonging? Conditionality, Values, and Political Membership in EU Spending: Pauline Thinus (Université libre de Bruxelles), Päivi Leino-Sandberg (University of Helsinki), Richard Crowe (European Parliament, Brussels).

Monday, 30 November 2026, 09:00 to 16:30 (Amsterdam time, which is 13:30 to 21:00 IST). Participants can join in person in Room A3.15, Roeterseilandcampus Building A, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, Amsterdam, or online.

This is an attend-only academic conference open to anyone interested in EU law, public finance and European governance. The official registration form asks for your name, email and institution, and whether you will join online or in person, so law students, researchers and practitioners in India can register to join online.

The organiser's page mentions no registration fee, and the official registration form has no payment step.

Fill in the official University of Amsterdam registration form with your name, email and institution, and choose whether you will join in person at the Amsterdam Law School or online. The organiser's page states no registration deadline. The conference starts at 09:00 Amsterdam time (13:30 IST) on 30 November 2026, so register before that day.