Modern Europe and Law
Popularization blog about legal and political aspects of modern technologies
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Legal and Political Issues of Cyber Security and Fight Against Disinformation in the Process of Integration of Ukraine into the European Union (part II)
The second day of the conference was opened by the Mgr. et Mgr. Ondřej Filipec, Ph.D., from the Department of Politics and Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, Palacky University who greeted guests and fellow lecturers. The first speaker was Assoc. Prof. Ladislav Cabada, PhD., Assoc. Prof., Metropolitan University Prague, who...
Legal and Political Issues of Cyber Security and Fight Against Disinformation in the Process of Integration of Ukraine into the European Union (part I)
On 16th and 17th March 2023 Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv hosted an international conference, which took place under the umbrella of Jean Monnet Network. The Jean Monnet Scientific Conference was entitled “Legal and Political Issues of Cyber Security and Fight against Disinformation in the Process of Integration of...
Round Table: Digitalization, Robotisation, and Cyber Security as the Key Priorities for the Duture Development of the EU and Member States
On 28. March 2023 Jean Monnet Network hosted a special round table discussion with the Czech Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Bartoš, Ph.D., and Dr. Joachim Schwerin, a top-level expert from the European Commission. The event was moderated by prof. Naděžda Šišková, Head of Jena Monnet Network and Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in...
Conference: European Union’s Response on the Challenges of Modern Society (part II)
The second day of the conference was opened with the section dedicated to the Competition Law in the Digital Economy, which was chaired by Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Peter-Christian Muller-Graff, Head of the Chair for Economic and European Law, Faculty of Law Heidelberg University, President of the German Association of...
Conference: European Union’s Response on the Challenges of Modern Society (part I)
Summary by Dr. Filipec On the 26th and 27th of April 2023 Faculty of Law, Palacký University in Olomouc hosted the Jean Monnet Scientific Conference dedicated to the topic of the European Union's Response on the Challenges of Modern Society. The conference was organized under the umbrella of the Czech Association of European...
About the blog
The main purpose of this blog is to provide insight into newest research results in the areas that shape our society: robotization, automatization, artificial intelligence, new technologies and related topics including hybrid threats and other issues that are brought by modernization. We are living in a word of rapid development of technologies and new discoveries which are always one step further to legal regulation or political reflection. The main mission of the blog is to provide deeper insight into some of the most problematic aspects of this development and open a space for greater debate about the impacts of legal issues of digitalization, robotization, cyber security and prevention of hybrid threats.
The blog contains articles written by experts from several institutions partnered within the Jean Monnet Network. Their list is availale bellow.
Participating institutions

Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Law
(Czech Republic)

Heidelberg University
(Germany)

Tallin University of Technology
(Estonia)

Comenius University in Bratislava
(Slovakia)

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev
(Ukraine)
Media gallery
Below you can see selected photos from events hosted by our project. More materials are available on the website of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in EU Law in Palacký University Olomouc.