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The XXXI International Federation of European Law (Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen, FIDE) Congress will take place in Katowice from 28–31 May 2025 and is organised by the Polish Association of European Law (Polskie Stowarzyszenie Prawa Europejskiego, PSPE). The latter is currently presiding FIDE, and led by Maciej Szpunar (First Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, ELI Individual Observer).

The Congress will focus on three topics:

1. EU Emergency Law
2. EU Digital Economy: General Framework (DSA/DMA) and Specialised Regimes
3. Energy Solidarity and Energy Security – From Green Transition to the EU’s Crisis Management

all of which ELI contributed to through its projects and other activities.

Among others, ELI provided guidance during the COVID-19 crisis. Furthermore, the ELI Charter of Fundamental Constitutional Principles of a European Democracy provides guidance on state emergency and ELI-Mount Scopus European Standards of Judicial Independence instils rule of law culture so vital in times of crisis.

ELI leadership with regard to the Digital Economy is proved by its seminal ALI-ELI Principles for a Data Economy: Data Transactions and Data Rights, as well as several responses to the European Commission's Public Consultation, eg on Data Act, on Civil Liability: Adapting Liability Rules to the Digital Age and Artificial Intelligence, and on Digital Fairness – Fitness Check on EU Consumer Law.

ELI is therefore pleased that its Scientific Director, Christiane Wendehorst, will moderate one of the EU Digital Economy sessions.

ELI is also honoured that its Fellows Takis Tridimas (Director of the Luxembourg Centre for European Law, Co-Reporter of ELI Charter of Fundamental Constitutional Principles of a European Democracy), Sacha Prechal (Professor of European Law at Utrecht University and former Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union), Marek Safjan (former judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union), Silvana Sciarra (Emeritus President of the Italian Constitutional Court), as well as its Individual Observer, Koen Lenaerts (President of the Court of Justice of the European Union), are among the Keynote Speakers at the Congress, along with Claire Bazy Malaurie (President of the Venice Commission), Adam Bodnar (Polish Minister of Justice), Stephan Harbarth (President of the German Federal Constitutional Court), Michael McGrath (EU Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection), Eleanor Sharpston (former Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union), Adam Szłapka (Polish Minister for the European Union), Joseph HH Weiler (University Professor at the NYU Law School) and Marc van der Woude (President of the General Court of the European Union).