Lecture The Political Stakes in the Technology of EU Security Governance AEL Summer Course on Law of the EU: Distinguished Lecture Add to calendar 2025-06-19 14:30 2025-06-19 16:00 Europe/Rome The Political Stakes in the Technology of EU Security Governance Sala degli Stemmi Villa Salviati - Castle YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Jun 19 2025 14:30 - 16:00 CEST Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati - Castle Organised by Academy of European Law This year, the Distinguished Lecture of the Academy of European Law's Summer Course on The Law of The EU will be delivered by Deirdre Curtin, Professor of European Law. The European Union is in the vanguard of the art of doing politics while claiming not to be doing it. Civil servants, tendered research consultants, procured private companies, data managers, all see their role as being outside the realm of politics and within that of (only) the technical. Yet political stakes are hiding in the technical and in the latency of technology. When security governance is combined with advanced systems of technology including inter-connected data bases accessible to many kinds of actors and increasingly also using AI, strong technical imperatives apply and prevail. In the context of the EU, and in particular in the fields I focus on in this lecture-migration governance and border security- it has become a dominant narrative that shapes and limits a political and a legal process. It constitutes an ever more salient part of the hidden integration of Europe.