The province of Upper Austria has now awarded Prof. Dr. Hekimler the Silver Medal of Honour for his outstanding services to the development of international scientific relations and the promotion of academic exchange between Austria and Turkey. Hekimler, who has been reporting regularly on current developments in social law in Turkey since 2015 as a correspondent of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in its series Social Law Reports , is also a corresponding member of the Institute for the Law of Social Security and Medical Law at Johannes Kepler University in Linz. In

Prof. Andrea Sangiovanni called for the EU to become a cosmopolitan organisation - Nothing less than the fundaments of the European Union were questioned by Andrea Sangiovanni, Professor of Philosophy at King's College London, in his recent lecture "The EU excludes non-European countries from accession: Is it right to do so?". The answer he gave was provocative and hotly debated: it is not. Rather, the Europeans-only exclusion rule is illegitimate. Sangiovanni's lecture was part of the series on "The Future of the Fiscal State and the Social State in the European Union", organised by the Max

Prof. Brigid Laffan Traces the Evolvement of EU's Fiscal and Financial Capacity The topic was as hot as the temperatures on 15 July, when Brigid Laffan, Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute, gave her well-attended lecture on "Public Finance, Crises and EU Integration" in the framework of the Max Planck Hub Fiscal and Social State in Munich. A much-awarded expert in European integration, she drew a complete picture of the critical role that public finances played in the integration process of the EU and notably how the EU fiscal and financial capacity has increased from

The Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy congratulates its scientist Dr. Irene Domenici on receiving the Otto Hahn Medal. The Max Planck Society (MPS) awards the prize, which is endowed with 7,500 euros, for outstanding achievements by young scientists, usually as part of their dissertation. "The medal is a wonderful recognition of my work and motivates me to continue to give my best in my research", says Irene Domenici, who has been working in the Institute's Social Law Department since 2018 were she also wrote her award-winning thesis. The official award ceremony took place during

Angesichts der massiven Hochwasserschäden, die Starkregen in Bayern und Baden-Württemberg in den vergangenen Tagen verursacht hat, wird nun erneut über eine Pflichtversicherung für Elementarschäden diskutiert. Bundesweit sind bis heute nur rund 50% der Wohngebäude umfassend gegen derartige Naturgefahren versichert. In einem Max-Planck-Forum diskutierte Prof. Ulrich Becker, Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik, mit Dr. Juliane Thimet, Stellvertreterin des Geschäftsführenden Präsidialmitglieds beim Bayerischen Gemeindetag und Vorsitzende der

In the recent past, several crises have accelerated the European Union's (EU) pursuit of fiscal integration, notably the Euro area crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of the practical impossibility of amending the EU Treaties, this has happened by way of 'legal acrobatics', stretching the boundaries of the EU Treaties, as Prof. Alicia Hinarejos pointed out in her lecture 'The Fiscal Integration in the EU: Acceleration, Constitutional Pitfalls, and Limits', which took place in the framework of the Max Planck Hub Fiscal and Social State on 8 th May 2024. Alicia Hinarejos, an expert in EU law