Bitburger talks
The Bitburg Talks are a series of conferences that are currently held twice a year and offer a forum for the scientific and political discussion of current and emerging legal policy issues, both within and outside the national framework. Well-known representatives from politics, business, science, the judiciary, administration and the media regularly take part in the talks.
The Bitburg Talks were founded in 1972 by Otto Theisen , then Minister of Justice for the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. They currently take place at the beginning of each year at different locations in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Bitburger Talks in Munich have also been part of this since 2010 and are held annually in autumn.
The discussions are organized by the Society for Legal Policy together with the Institute for Legal Policy at the University of Trier . The contributions will be published in a conference proceedings following the respective discussions.
Selected topics from recent years
- Development prospects of an economic constitution for the European Union (58th Bitburger Talks, 2015)
- Entrepreneurial freedom in the stranglehold of the law? (5th Bitburger Talks in Munich, 2014)
- Energy transition - do we need a new turn? (57th Bitburger Talks, 2014)
- Entrepreneurial freedom of choice vs. social policy regulation (4th Bitburger Talks in Munich, 2013)
- Public and private sphere - shifting boundaries in the modern communication society (56th Bitburger Talks, 2013)
- Fiscal Union Europe - Way or the wrong way? (3rd Bitburger Talks in Munich, 2012)
- Future of Democracy - Democracy of the Future (55th Bitburg Talks, 2012)
- Planning, explaining, listening - How large-scale projects with citizen participation become possible (2nd Bitburger Talks in Munich, 2011)
- The European Union after Lisbon (54th Bitburg Talks, 2011)
- Data protection in employment (1st Bitburger Talks in Munich, 2010)
- Integration in freedom - opportunities and obstacles (53rd Bitburger Talks, 2010)
- Reorganization of the financial markets - from crisis to reform (52nd Bitburger Talks, 2009)