The EP-EUI Policy Roundtable on Evidence and Analysis in EU Policy-Making was co-organised by the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS) of the European Parliament on 7 November 2016, in Florence.
It brought together practitioners and academics who discussed recent developments in evidence-based policy-making together with Professor Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Vice-President of the European Parliament (EP) and Professor Renaud Dehousse, President of the European University Institute (EUI), who jointly provided the concluding remarks of the event. The scientific coordinators of the roundtable were Wilhelm Lehmann, EP Fellow at the EUI and Gaby Umbach, GlobalStat/EUI.
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Introduction | EU Policy-Making: Concepts, Practice and Governance Welcome and Opening Remarks Brigid Laffan, Director, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI
Panel 1 | Planning and Assessing EU Policies – Practice and Practicability Chair and speakers: Wilhelm Lehmann, Visiting European Parliament Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI Katia Berti, Head of Sector, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission Christine Kormann, Project leader DIGICOM, EUROSTAT Daniel Schraad-Tischler, Senior Expert, Bertelsmann Foundation Gaby Umbach, Director, GlobalStat, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI
Panel 2 | Legitimacy and Accountability of Evidence-Based Policy-Making Chair and speakers: Etienne Bassot, Director, DG European Parliamentary Research Service, European Parliament Jack Malan, Founding Partner, Centre for Strategy & Evaluation Services Alexandre Stutzmann, Director, Directorate-General for External Policies, European Parliament Barend van der Meulen, Head of Research, Rathenau Instituut and Professor, Leiden University Jean-Claude Worms, Chief Executive, European Science Foundation
Panel 3 | The ‘Evidence Turn’ in EU Policy Planning and Legislation – Panacea or Mirage? Chair and speakers: Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Vice-President of the European Parliament Paul Cairney, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling David Coen, Professor of Public Policy, University College London Miguel Maduro, Professor of Law, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI Anthony Teasdale, Director-General, DG European Parliamentary Research Service, European Parliament
Concluding Remarks | EU Policy-Making: Concepts, Practice and Governance Renaud Dehousse, President, European University Institute Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Vice-President of the European Parliament / Professor of International Relations, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest