Climate Breakfast Seminar with Leigh Hancher
Title: Is the EU state aid discipline fit for purpose in achieving climate ambitions and 'Fit for 55'?
About the seminar
The seminar will look at whether state aid control is being substantially weakened in the face of national industrial policy goals. It will also consider how to make sure state aid can still focus on 'good aid' and deliver value for money when aid seems to be awarded at many points along the value chain.
About the speaker 
Leigh Hancher is Professor of European Law at the University of Tilburg. She is a part-time Professor at the Florence School of Regulation within the European University Institute and the Director of the FSR Energy Union Law Area. Her research interests include energy market regulation, EU state aids and energy market governance. Her expertise, as well as her academic research, is focused on the changing role of the government in stimulating the liberalisation of traditionally heavily regulated sectors. She has also been a Professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, a Visiting Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, Head of Legal at the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels and a member of the Dutch Academic Advisory Council (WRR). Leigh studied law at the Universities of Glasgow and Sheffield, and at the EUI. She obtained her doctorate in law, with distinctions, from the University of Leiden in 1989.
Time: 10 June, 2024 from 09:00 to 10:00
Venue: Room 7A.0.16 (Pejsestuen) and online via zoom (link will be provided upon registration)