A conference studies the abolition of the Furs of Valencia

  • June 28th, 2017
 
Mapa Europa

The Faculty of Law hosts on 29 June the third session ‘Els valencians, poble d’Europa, jornades de reflexió política i jurídica’, which started last 25 April. It is a meeting distributed in three sessions. This last one studies the abolition of the Furs of Valencia on the 310th anniversary. ‘Jacobinisme vs. Federalisme. Espanya o les Espanyes’ is the title of the session. It will take place at 16:30h in the Sala Joaquin Tomàs de Vilarroya.

The event will be divided in three parts. The first one will start at 16:30 with the conference ‘El principio foral y la plurinacionalidad de las Españas como respuesta al conflicto territorial’. It will be given by Maria Teresa de Borbón-Parma, former professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and former member of the European Movement Spain.  At 18:00 the second session will take place at it will answer the question: ‘¿Es justa y razonable la alternativa federal en el Estado español?’ by José Maria Vidal, professor of Constitutional Law at the Universitat de València and communication secretary of the Valencian Government.

At 19:30, the president of the Valencian Parliament, Enric Morera, will give a talk.

At 19:45, the round table ‘Autonomismo en un callejón sin salida. Entre el neocentralismo y los soberanismos periféricos’ will start. Vicent Flor, director of the Alfons el Magnànim Institution;  Joaquín Martín Cubas, professor of Political and Administrative Sciences at the Universitat de València; Eduard Mira, professor of Sociology at the Universitat d’Alacant and member of the AVL; and Joan Romero, full university professor of Geography at the Universitat de València, will take part in the event. The event will be moderated by Emilia Bea, professor in Law Philosophy and Politics Philosophy at the Universitat de València.

These study sessions consider a key issue: the Valencian nationality as historic and its integration in the framework of a democratic political structure that needs an effective recognition of the territorial plurality. Thus, the aim is to improve the political and legal insertion of the Region of Valencia within the occidental democratic context, as well as the state and continental environment.

The subjects addressed in the debate are the following: Valencian identity, the conceptions of Spain, the values and crisis of the Europeism, the challenges of the democratic citizenship and the political culture of the democratic federalism, among others.