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Political parties are core stakeholders of modern representative democracies and fill a number of important functions in the political system. […]
Read moreThe report discusses the attitude of the Lithuanian policy-makers (parliament, president, government) towards differentiated integration during the period from Lithuania’s […]
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic, which is not over yet, has created a devastating impact on the socioeconomic and health infrastructures of […]
Read moreEuropol has become a hub for differentiated integration. Initially a small anti-drugs unit, the EU’s police agency is now a […]
Read moreThis article investigates the roots of populism in Poland in its current traditionalist-conservative fashion. In contrast with the liberal hegemony […]
Read more“It’s time to square the circle!” was a plea by Clarissa Roth, participant in the second project cycle of #EngagEUrCouncil, […]
Read moreThis brief presents research results on the resilience of European identity to a decade of socio-economic and political crises. It […]
Read moreThe reality of the consequences on everyday life of a no-deal Brexit (or even a very limited deal) are becoming […]
Read moreWhat room is there for inclusion of third countries in EU security and defence initiatives and how does Brexit alter […]
Read moreOn 1 January 2021 Germany handed over the Presidency of the Council of the EU to Portugal. The Portuguese Government will lead […]
Read moreTogether with the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), IEP has published a discussion paper based on an intensive three-day […]
Read moreSpain has good reason to be relieved that the UK and EU struck a post-Brexit free-trade deal, given the importance […]
Read moreDuring the crisis-ridden last decade, a new intergovernmentalism has established itself in the EU, presented as pragmatic and solution-oriented. But […]
Read moreukrIn this Analytical Report, which consists of four sections, talks about the nature and specific aspects of government’s eurointegration policy, […]
Read moreIn a new study by the IEP, Manuel Müller and Julian Plottka, commissioned by the EU Office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, […]
Read moreThis policy paper evaluates the implementation of travel restrictions in Europe due to COVID-19 to provide an understanding of the […]
Read moreRepresentativeness, inclusion, and sustainability are just a few of the challenges that youth participation projects face. Funda Tekin, Jana Schubert […]
Read moreThe EUs current Arctic policy from 2016 focuses on climate and environmental protection, sustainable development and international cooperation. The EU […]
Read moreThis paper uses Europeanisation theory to explain why, through the enlargement policy of the European Union (EU), Croatia converged more […]
Read moreIn the new issue of #BerlinPerspectives, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Abels, Jean Monnet Professor for Comparative Politics & European Integration, Eberhard […]
Read moreThis book tells the story of the European Movement’s mission to create – through education – a European spirit in […]
Read moreThis Briefing will set out the current state of the Brexit negotiations in the field of air transport. The Briefing […]
Read moreElection fraud followed by the disproportionate use of force against peaceful protesters in Belarus strongly weakened the legitimacy of the […]
Read moreProf. Dr. Andreja Jaklič from the Centre of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) […]
Read moreAt the end of year 2020, the European space sector finds itself at a crossroads between challenges and opportunities. While […]
Read moreSince the creation of the EU, there have been instances in which a restricted number of member states have handled […]
Read moreThis policy paper studies the role of differentiated integration in the field of energy – where an EU-level compromise is […]
Read moreHywel Ceri Jones, one of the founders of the Erasmus programme, explains why the government are wrong to abandon British […]
Read moreThis policy paper studies the role of differentiated integration in the field of energy – where an EU-level compromise is […]
Read moreDifferentiation has become an established feature of European integration in the past decades, and a variety of forms of differentiated […]
Read moreDirector Brendan Donnelly argues that if there is a “no deal” Brexit it will have its roots in the referendum […]
Read moreThis paper shows that supporters and critics often fail to recognise that they have been talking with different conceptions of […]
Read moreThe parliamentary dimension in EU governance still needs attention, and is sure to be addressed in the Conference on the […]
Read moreExplores the impact of an important ruling from the ECJ in Baltic Cable AB v Energimarknadsinspektionen on 11 March. Discusses […]
Read moreIt is crucial to call things by their name, as that everyone realizes what we are facing. The restoration of […]
Read moreAgainst the background of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been much discussion of a “return of the state” across two […]
Read moreThis article explores which metaphors relevant political parties in Slovakia use when they speak about the EU’s “finalité politique” by […]
Read moreThis Working Paper analyzes the current debate on EU strategic autonomy among European policymakers and think-tankers and evaluates it against […]
Read moreThe paper examines the way Polish courts apply EU private international law rules in the disputes concerning online context. The […]
Read moreThis policy paper evaluates the implementation of travel restrictions in Europe due to COVID-19 to provide an understanding of the […]
Read moreThe latest European Court of Auditors (ECA) Special Report on EU agencies is worth a thorough read. This audit is […]
Read moreSummarizes the range of policy proposals advanced to address the crisis of traditional media outlets and the unaccountability of platforms. […]
Read moreIt is not often that an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) calls on […]
Read moreThis paper discusses models of law and regulation of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). The discussion focuses on four models: the black […]
Read moreHow transnational are European Parliament (EP) campaigns? Building on research on the European public sphere and the politicisation of the […]
Read moreThe Schengen area represents a textbook example of differentiation in the European Union. Not all EU member states are part […]
Read moreTransnational networks of local authorities are an established and growing phenomenon in Europe, where they perform a number of (soft) […]
Read moreDuring the sovereign debt crisis the ECB and ECJ were constrained by two main factors: pressures from the Crisis Management […]
Read morePlans for promoting European identity on social media start from crisis diagnoses, rightly stating that the European Union suffers from […]
Read moreSovereignty is back. A concept proscribed by democratic ideology itself, it has been rehabilitated, since it would become the attribute […]
Read moreFinnish-Swedish defence cooperation has taken significant steps. Currently, the two countries engage in operative planning, which constitutes a significant part […]
Read moreA new policy paper of our researchers Jan Kovář and Petr Kratochvíl just came out! It was written with a […]
Read moreEU leaders have met in Brussels to discuss many important items on external relations, including the recent tensions with Turkey […]
Read moreThe multiple crises that the EU has faced over the last decade could lead observers to expect an increase in […]
Read moreThe establishment of the European Defence Fund (EDF) represents an important step towards a more coherent European security architecture. It […]
Read moreThis policy brief examines the EU’s foreign, security and defence policy relations with third countries, and their relevance to the […]
Read moreJaap Hoeksma argues that the EU is no longer an incomprehensible hybrid between a state and an international organisation. Instead, […]
Read moreNatasha Wunsch, Assistant Professor of European Integration/Political Science at Sciences Po Paris, has contributed to IEP Berlin’s #BerlinPerspectives series. The […]
Read moreOn 16th of September 2020, Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen gave her first State of the Union (SoU) address, a practice […]
Read moreThis paper deals mainly with the historic origins of the special rent-based East-Central European development model. The Atlantic competition-based model […]
Read moreTaking stock of the numerous crises that have confronted Europe in the last decade, this special issue investigates the relationship […]
Read moreContestation over European integration has been widely studied in the rhetoric of parties, leaders, and movements on the far right […]
Read moreThis article analyses the political construction and politicisation of UK–EU relations by British parliamentarians in Westminster and in the European […]
Read moreThe July European Council resulted in a good deal, arguably the best possible under the circumstances. It took four days […]
Read moreDuring the NEXTEUK Project International Online Conference “Brexit and European integration: Political, policy and legitimacy challenges” – organised by the Centre for European […]
Read moreThis EU IDEA paper engages with ideational origins and normative political theories of European differentiated integration. Specifically, it examines a […]
Read moreNorth Rhine-Westphalia’s State Secretary for European Affairs, Mark Speich (CDU), sees the conference as an opportunity to reduce the over-constitutionalisation […]
Read moreFive years after the entry into force of the Banking Union, this Policy Paper assesses its effectiveness as a form […]
Read moreThis paper addresses the central question of the interplay between mostly informal differentiated cooperation formats in European foreign policy, and […]
Read morePolitical scientist John Erik Fossum analyses three key questions that need to be answered in the preparation of the conference: […]
Read moreWe are happy to announce the publication of three policy papers by our Senior Researchers Manuel Müller und Julian Plottka […]
Read moreSince the Great Recession started in the late 2000s, the European Union (EU) has experienced an acute crisis that has […]
Read moreThis paper explores the ways in which national identities shape attitudes towards differentiated integration in two old member states, one […]
Read moreIn the eight-weekly European election seat projection on the blog “Der (europäische) Föderalist”, the corona effect, from which national governments […]
Read moreOn the blog “Der (europäische) Föderalist”, our Senior Researcher Manuel Müller compares the lead candidates’ campaigns in the last two […]
Read moreThis policy paper explores how diverse modes of differentiation occur in regions beyond Europe. From the perspective of comparative regionalism, the paper […]
Read moreAlmost a decade after the Lisbon Treaty introduced the division, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission agreed on […]
Read moreThe Conference on the Future of Europe was to be launched on 9 May 2020 to debate the EU’s priorities, […]
Read moreThis article takes a comparative perspective to identify the likely parameters of the future partnership between the United Kingdom (UK) […]
Read moreThis paper addresses the central question of the interplay between mostly informal differentiated cooperation formats in European foreign policy, and the foreign […]
Read moreThis chapter reflects on the diversity of approaches in political science and its associated challenges, comparing them with the risks […]
Read moreThe European asylum system is based on the 1990 Dublin Convention and its revisions and developments in EU law. It […]
Read moreMeasures to contain the corona pandemic are exacerbating existing trends in some EU member states: For years Poland and Hungary […]
Read moreThis paper describes and assesses the functioning of differentiated integration arrangements in the field of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). […]
Read moreWhile minimum democratic standards were upheld during the vote, Serbian democracy has taken a hard hit as a result of the partially boycotted […]
Read moreWhat will the “new normal” look like after Corona? Where will there be a return to the previous state, what […]
Read moreThe public debate on pan-European (or, in Brussels jargon, “transnational”) European election lists has become a little quieter over the […]
Read moreEU and Spanish foreign policy were undergoing a transition from multilateralism to strategic autonomy to adapt to an increasingly competitive […]
Read moreThe Conservative government has been surprisingly successful in avoiding public discussion of the disappearance on 30th June of its option to […]
Read morePreparations for the Conference on the Future of Europe are ongoing. What are our expectations and wishes for it? Three […]
Read moreThe Austrian federal government has set itself the goal of enabling all 15 to 20-year-olds to travel to Brussels to […]
Read moreThe coronavirus has been an unprecedented challenge for the world. The EU, an incomplete integration project with a very high […]
Read moreThere is not much of a market just now for optimism about our economic, social, political or environmental future. In […]
Read morePreparations for the Conference on the Future of Europe are ongoing. What are our expectations and wishes for it? Three […]
Read moreDavid Gow argues in his latest blog that the EU now has a chance to put behind it the years of […]
Read morePreparations for the Conference on the Future of Europe are ongoing. What are our expectations and wishes for it? Three […]
Read moreTendencies towards undermining European core values in EU member states – represented on the example of Hungary in this paper […]
Read moreOver the past decade the European Union concluded dozens of free trade agreements. These agreements are aimed at more than […]
Read moreThis policy brief develops two possible scenarios (closer vs. looser cooperation) of a future EU–UK economic relationship. After analysing how […]
Read moreThe paper discusses the nexus between the EU pre-accession conditionality and membership obligations to guarantee respect for the rule of […]
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