EULawSD team to join online event on protection of COVID-19 ‘victims’ in international and EU law

On May 26th, the academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module in EU Law and Sustainable and Development Riccardo Pavoni, together with fellow EULawSD team member Patrizia Vigni, will join an online event organised by the Università degli Studi di Siena as part of its ‘Virtual Studium‘ series.

The interview will discuss how international and EU Law can help protect ‘victims’ of COVID-19, including relatives of deceased persons, people who are or have been sick due to COVID-19, persons displaced by COVID-19, persons who have become unemployed due to COVID-19, and companies which have been obliged to close down and/or have suffered economic losses due to the pandemic. 

The event will be broadcast on the University’s Facebook page (@unisiena) starting from 18.30/6.30pm CEST. To learn more, see http://www.unisi.it/unisilife/eventi/virtual-studium.

Riccardo Pavoni joins web show on the European response to COVID-19

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On May 7th, EULawSD academic coordinator Riccardo Pavoni joined a webinar on ‘The European Response to the COVID-19 Emergency’, which was aired on Italian regional broadcaster Alò Web TV.

During the show, Professor Pavoni discussed the basket of measures taken by European institutions to confront the pandemic, ranging from those aimed at ensuring the availability of medical equipment across all EU countries to the European Central Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme and the Commission’s efforts towards the development of a EU Recovery Fund.

Professor Pavoni was joined on the show by fellow Prof Giammaria Milani (Università degli Studi di Siena), who offered a comparative legal perspective on the different strategies adopted by selected European countries.

You can watch the full web show below.