The new German government will have three fundamental policy issues to wrestle with: the war in Ukraine and European security, the future of global trade, and structural issues that hold back growth. Ukraine: If U.S. support wanes, Europe must stand ready. Trade: Trump's tariffs offer...

The fundamental challenges that Germany is facing - increasing productivity, combining the transformation to climate neutrality with economic growth, making the economy more resilient - cannot be tackled in large part without Europe. This is in the nature of things: resilience and security of...

In recent years, Europe has faced numerous challenges, such as the return of a war to the European continent, the consequences of a global pandemic and the growing impact of climate change. These challenges underline the importance of the rule of law, the well-functioning of the constitutional...

The Court of Justice of the European Union (the 'CJEU') encapsulated the essence of European integration in the following terms: 'The values contained in Article 2 TEU have been identified and are shared by the Member States. They define the very identity of the European Union as a common legal...

In the past, the European Union seems to have been able to tame Euroscepticism through regional 'convergence' funding. After the Eastern enlargement of the Union, however, this relationship needs to be put to the test. Not only have the new member states become the main recipients of EU funding,...

Inflation, Energiekrise, steigende Staatsverschuldung, sinkende Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, löchrige Außengrenzen: Der wirtschaftliche Zustand Europas wirkt düster, obwohl gerade in geopolitisch gefährlichen Zeiten ein starkes, dynamisches Europa der beste Garant für Prosperität und Sicherheit...

L’Europe a fait le choix du libéralisme à travers l’adoption d’un ordre économique et social : « l’économie sociale de marché ». Ce livre raconte l’histoire de ce choix décisif pour l’européanisation des sociétés. Du marché commun à l’euro, cette convergence...

It is quite possible that there will be a referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union in the next few years. However, few people have well-formed views on what they believe should happen if we leave the EU. How should the objective of free trade be promoted? What approach...

"Between 1946 and 1952, Albert O. Hirschman, a German-born economist and wartime refugee, worked as an economic analyst in the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Board of the United States. He was first in charge of the Western European desk; later he was the Fed's representative to the...

"European Union Governance and Policy-Making introduces the politics of the European Union (EU) to a student audience. The book is explicitly focused on students enrolled in universities in Canada, or other non-EU countries, and builds on their academic background. Chapters cover the political...

This paper discusses the development of Euroscepticism in France and the underlying actors and causes. First, the literature review presents a selection of distinct classifications, actors and sources for the analysis. Thus, the distinction between hard and soft Euroscepticism as well as diffuse...

Die Europäische Union wurde zu Beginn des neuen institutionellen Zyklus, als es mit der programmatischen Ausrichtung losgehen sollte, von der COVID-19-Pandemie ausgebremst. Das Wahlergebnis zum Europaparlament hatte die Befürchtungen, Europaskepsis würde zum Signum der kommenden Periode,...

This assessment was created in the context of the seminar ‘Ideas, Ideologies and Identities in Europe'. Therefore the essay seeks to answer if there are any European people, what does it mean to be European and can be the European identity be created? In order to answer those questions the...

There is little causal evidence about deep-rooted sources of support for shifting power from nation-states to international organizations. Focusing on the European Union, this paper develops the hypothesis that citizens appreciate the role of international organizations in constraining member...

Die Europäische Zentralbank ist die einzige starke zentrale Institution in der Europäischen Währungsunion (EWU), die im Interesse der gesamten Währungsunion agiert und die ohne komplizierte Kompromissverhandlungen zwischen den Mitgliedsländern entscheidet. Sie verkörpert einen wichtigen...

"The surprising story of how Algeria became part of the postwar European Economic Community-and why its membership ultimately ended. Challenging the narrative that postwar decolonization was separate from the establishment of an integrated Europe, the author shows how France used integration to...

The story of the evolution of the 'European project', from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through to Brexit, this is also the story of how, and why, it become possible to imagine that the diverse peoples of Europe might be united in a single political community.

This paper investigates whether EU redistributive policies improved the public attitude toward European integration, both in terms of public opinion and in terms of political preferences. We build a new dataset combining data from the European Social Survey, different data sources for political...

Seit ihrer Gründung ist die Europäische Gemeinschaft hin- und hergerissen zwischen einer marktwirtschaftlichen und einer interventionistischen Wirtschaftsordnung. Über einen Zeitraum von 1955 bis heute wird die französische Europapolitik in dieser Arbeit auf ihre ordnungspolitischen...

This paper investigates whether EU redistributive policies improved the public attitude toward European integration, both in terms of public opinion and in terms of political preferences. We build a new dataset combining data from the European Social Survey, different data sources for political...

Der mit der Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS) einsetzende europäische Einigungsprozess ist mitnichten als ein von zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren weitgehend abgekoppeltes Projekt politischer Eliten zu interpretieren, sondern wurde von den nicht...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 "The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation". Visualizing the EU as a complex and multi-layered network, the book...

Was the European Union ever a liberal dream? How did the common market impact the liberalization in its member states? Has the EU fostered more or less economic freedom in the Old Continent? This book explores the intellectual and political genesis of the European Union, focusing especially on...

1. Introduction -- 2. Some Introductory Thoughts -- Part I. The European “Postwar Consensus” and the European Project -- 3. The Origins of the Idea of European Integration: A German Perspective -- 4. The European “Postwar Consensus” and the Birth of the EEC -- 5 “Large Switzerland”...