: PROGRAMME Tuesday 26th May 2026 14h00 - 14h15 | Opening 14h15 - 14h45 | Introduction Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche , Professor of Law, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France 14h45 - 16h15 | Keynote Speech Europe in the Upside Down: The Parasitic Architecture of Democratic Backsliding in the European Union Dan Kelemen , Professor of Law, Georgetown University 16h15 - 16h45 | Pause 16h45 - 17h30 | Panel 1 Illiberal Regimes Accessing to Institutions : Observations and Modelisation Chair : Carolina Simoncini , Assistant Professor in Italian Studies, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 The Autocratization Plateau ? The New Phase of Democratic Decline Luca Tomini , Professor of Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles From Normalisation to Transnational Coordination : How the Far Right Undermines Liberal Democracy Léonie de Jonge , Professor of Research on Far-Right Extremism (Political Actors & Ideologies), Institute for Research on Far-Right Extremism (IRex), Univer[...]