The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance hosted a scientific meeting and reception for the 2020 and 2021 Fondation Pierre Werner Scholarship recipients on 20 October, 2021. The event, which brought together the eight laureates and their PhD supervisors as well as representatives from FDEF, the Fondation Pierre Werner, the Fondation de Luxembourg and Pierre Werner’s family, was held in-person at the Weicker Building under the Covidcheck regime.
Among the 8 laureates, 2 of them belong to the Doctoral School of Economics, Finance and Management. Congratulations to all the winners and especially to our PHDs:
Rana Cömertpay (Belgium, Turkey), with the subject “Essays on the Economics of Migration and Forced Displacement.”
Silvia Peracchi (Italy) with the subject “Essays on the Economics of International Migration.”
The full list of winners is as follows:
2020 Laureates and thesis topics
Although the 2020 winners had already been announced in July 2020, the COVID situation had prevented them from official presenting their work and receiving their awards.
- Rana Cömertpay (Belgium, Turkey), with the subject “Essays on the Economics of Migration and Forced Displacement.”
- Bastian Krieger (Germany), with the subject “Essays in Economics of Innovation.”
- Roila Mavrouli (Greece), with the subject “La controverse constitutionnelle grecque sur l’article 120 § 4 en période de crise. Étude de la compétence controversée du peuple en tant qu’organe de l’Etat.”
- Igor Tkalec (Croatia), with the subject “External drivers and internal outcomes: the effect of European Semester on adequate pensions in the euro area.”
2021 Laureates and thesis topics
- Pier Mario Lupinu (Italy) with the subject “Legal constraints to the provision of liquidity post-resolution in the euro area: a critical analysis.”
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Silvia Peracchi (Italy) with the subject “Essays on the Economics of International Migration.”
Branimir Stanimirov (Bulgaria) with the subject “Stalled Democracy: Europeanization, Democratic Backsliding and the Rule of Law in the EU’s Multi-Level System. The Case of Bulgaria’s Judicial Reforms (2001-2021)”
- Moritz Rehm (Germany) with the subject “Half a century of crises: the development of EU financial assistance in the past and present.”
Congratulations again to all of them!