Welcome to the first of this year's Sells lunchtime seminars, which happened most Wednesdays during the Michaelis and the Lent Terms, and I'm pleased to see so many people here.

The small housekeeping announcement to repeat it, please when you finish, if you've got food

with you or plates, take them outside and deposit them so it will get shot if I can

encourage people to break the rule, they need a lecture room.

It's my great pleasure to welcome as our speaker today, Daniel Algenstein, who originally did his studies in Germany and then

in Florence and he then had a period in the University of Edinburgh when he was teaching and

he's now migrated to teacher the University of Tilburg.

And he's going to talk about fundamental rights and fundamental conflicts in the European legal space.

We're most grateful to him for coming all the way from Tilburg to give a lunchtime seminar.

Over to you, Daniel.

The applause is yours.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for coming.

I'm actually not sure you know where Tilburg is.

Well, I didn't until I got a job there, somewhere down in the Netherlands.

So thank you. Thank you very much for inviting me.

I'm a lawyer by training, but now I work in a philosophy department,

so I'll give you a bit, there will be some philosophical traces in my talk I hope it's nevertheless

interesting and useful in one sentence what I want to talk about is what it means for a

polity that is not a state composed of states to claim that it is its fundamental rights

quality right to claim that is committed to the protection

of fundamental rights. And I'm trying to limit myself to 30 minutes,

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