6th Workshop of the Political Economy Working Group — Programme
The Political Economy Working Group will hold its 6th workshop on 19 June 2026 at ICHEC Brussels (Room 431). If you want to attend, please write to Aurélien Goutsmedt and Ariane Gemander to register.
Below is the programme of the day.
9.15 - 9.45 Welcome coffee & Welcome Words
9.45 - 11.30: Doctoral Session
Chair: Aurélien Goutsmedt (ICHEC)
Zsuzsanna Szeredi (UCLouvain) : Engineering supranational agendas through the legal infrastructure of EU Public Finances (the Financial Regulation of the EU)
Discussant: Antonin Thyrard (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)
Maxence Tessier (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) : Socio-histoire européenne de l’inflation sous-jacente
Discussant: Félicien Pagnon (ICHEC)
11.45 - 13.00: Green Political Economy
Chair: Tom Duterme (ICHEC)
Balthazar De Robiano (European University Institute) : Are redistribution and environmentalism doomed ? The asset economy and France’s political transformation
Klaudia Prodani (University of Twente) : Conservation science at a crossroads: does recasting biodiversity loss as a source of financial risks harm or protect nature?
Session discussant: Tiago Moreira Ramalho (ULB)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 - 15.15: European Political Economy
Chair: Ariane Gemander (ULB)
Aurélien Goutsmedt (ICHEC): A Keynesianism That Refused to Die - The Drèze–Malinvaud Initiative (1993) and the European Commission
Antonin Thyrard (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) : Heavy Money - the stalling of EU-led financial engineering
Session discussant: Damien Piron (ULiège)
15.30 – 16.30: KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Andrea Binder (Free University Berlin)
Chair: Tom Duterme (ICHEC)