European Union

COVID-19 and Democracy in the European Union

Alexander Brotman • May 26 2020 • Articles

without reform, the transformative power of Europe risks providing a false sense of renewal that will only help nationalists and populists in the years ahead.

The European Union’s Digital Strategy and COVID-19

Eduard Hovsepyan • May 19 2020 • Articles

The strategy in its current state successfully addresses most of the issues the outbreak of COVID-19 raises. Nevertheless, there is still room for improvement.

Grexit and Brexit: Lessons for the European Union

Ino Terzi • May 4 2020 • Articles

The two crises are largely attributable to the inability of the EU to successfully present itself as the solution to the problems of globalisation and its inability to counter critical domestic narratives.

Opinion – Coronavirus: Beyond Europe’s North-South Divide

Domenico Valenza • Apr 26 2020 • Articles

The European debate over coronavirus is not geographical but ideological, involving three competing views of how Europe should address current and future challenges.

European Parliaments in Times of Coronavirus

Christine Neuhold • Apr 18 2020 • Articles

Governments are calling the shots in this time of emergency. This becomes problematic if there is no clear end to this ‘state of danger’ and when (new) crisis measures are no longer democratically debated.

The EU’s Global Health Crisis Management: Past and Present

Susan Bergner • Apr 17 2020 • Articles

If the EU wants to act as a successful global health crises manager, it has to overcome the ‘first Europe then the rest logic’ and act at all levels – regional and international – simultaneously

Interview – Adam Fabry

E-International Relations • Apr 16 2020 • Features

Adam Fabry talks about his book and research on Hungary, including economic and political changes, the origins of the far-right and alternative forms of resistance.

The ‘European (Union) Identity’: An Overview

Ugur Tekiner • Apr 15 2020 • Articles

The European Identity has undergone many phases. The fluctuating course of the integration renders it a construct emerging within the limits of European unification.

The European Identity: An Attempt at a Novel Approach

Ugur Tekiner • Apr 15 2020 • Articles

The European Identity is caught amid five major tensions, so a novel approach can develop on the condition that its room of manoeuvre left by those tensions is overcome.

Politics of Banking in Europe: Global Banks and Domestic Institutional Legacies

Elsa Massoc • Apr 15 2020 • Articles

International Political Economy and Comparative Political Economy should not be rival, but complementary approaches to understand a complicatedly governed world.

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