As we gather in Rome, we use this opportunity to bring together practitioners, politicians and commentators to discuss and review where we currently stand vis-`a-vis when we signed the Treaty in March 1957. Europe is clearly at a crossroads today, and we will debate issues such as Brexit and the potential realisation of the new constellation within the European area. The key question here is how the European Union may accommodate the new order and structures, some closer knit, such as the eurozone, and others looser. Can the European legal framework be developed to include the flexibility it needs to accommodate the various states within its new system or not? Should it even try? The session will also address key issues such as upholding the rule of law in times of growing European populism. The panellists will talk openly about migration and its impact on Europe, and pressures on the legal system, where there are tensions between individuals’ rights and political pressures surrounding them. Given our role as lawyers, we will review what we lawyers and the legal profession in general can do to help here.