In the crisis of 1989/90, the negotiations on the Maastricht Treaty offered ideal conditions for a European constitutional moment. But the public debate remained fragmented and focused on national interests — not least because of intergovernmental procedures, which gave more …
Edited by Hartmut Marhold on behalf of the Executive Board of the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) and with contributions by numerous authors, including three former directors, a foreword by our president Werner Hoyer and companions such as Elmar Brok …
Edited by Katrin Böttger, Maximilian Conrad und Annette Knaut and with two contributions of Julian Plottka, research associate at the IEP, Volume 97 of IEP’s book series offers a critical, but nonetheless cautiously optimistic perspective on the opportunities and constraints of …
A “second wave” of theoretically informed research on the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) indicates that those administrative EU-bodies, that were created to support decision-making and implementation in the intergovernmental field of CSDP, perpetually exceed their formal tasks …
External energy policy features increasingly on the political agenda of the European Union and its prominence will continue to accelerate for the foreseeable future. We do not have the genuine European policy that we expected from the official discourse calling …
Europe represents more than the mere economy of states and banks. This is the underlying conviction and line of argumentation of this edited volume. The costs of incomplete integration – i.e. the costs of ‘non-Europe’ – are included in the …
The European Union (EU) has come under pressure from different sides: First, it is undergoing a period of institutional and political reforms which are, however, progressing only slowly. Secondly, its shape is being influenced decisively by the inclusion of new …
An ever growing European Union (EU)” Treaty reforms, EU-budget negotiations and Euro-zone enlargements: European integration was put to a great test at the beginning of the 21st century. How were these developments and especially the way to the Lisbon Treaty …