The EU’s Energy Union: Solidarity amid Dissensus?
Antti Silvast The European Commission’s proposal for a European Energy Union, designed to integrate EU energy markets and energy supplies, is in large part a collection of previous policy goals, …
Category: Institutions
Interest Groups and EU Governance: Shooting Where the Ducks Are
Jeremy Richardson Interest groups follow power to its source and, with the progressive transfer of policy-making from national to European level, the network of interest groups in Brussels has intensified …
Social Europe since the Crisis
Elke Heins and Caroline de la Porte The changes to Eurozone governance in response to the crisis have had considerable impact on national welfare states, argue Elke Heins and Caroline …
The Ordoliberal Model and the Response to the Eurocrisis
María del Carmen Sandoval Velasco The crisis in the Eurozone has been met with a host of measures designed to enshrine a new fiscal order among the members of the …
The EU and Vietnam Agree on Trade Deal, But There’s Still a Long Road Ahead
Maria Garcia The recent announcement of the EU’s agreement in principle with Vietnam marks the latest step towards its first free trade agreement with an emerging/developing Asian economy, writes Maria …
A More ‘Global’ EU Foreign Policy for the Future
Chad Damro and Deyan Dimitrov Following the recent publication of the EU’s Strategic Review on external action, Chad Damro and Deyan Dimitrov write that we must rethink what we mean …
Policy Styles in the EU: From Promiscuous Consensus Building to Dirigiste Imposition?
Jeremy Richardson While the EU is often perceived as an organisation which functions on the consensus of its Member States, the Greek situation has shown that it can also instruct …
Sports and Film Rights in the EU: The Legacy of Murphy
Arianna Andreangeli and Rachael Craufurd Smith In this event report, Arianna Andreangeli and Rachael Craufurd Smith review a recent one-day workshop considering the implications of the EU courts’ Murphy judgement …
The EU Copyright Reform Debate is Marked by Diverging Views
Nevena Kostova In this extended article, Nevena Kostova considers the implications of the European Parliament’s recent non-binding resolution on copyright in the EU. She argues that the document sends mixed …
Greece: A Constitutionalist’s Two (Euro)cents
Cormac Mac Amhlaigh Public debate on the economic and financial situation in Greece has intensified in recent weeks, writes Cormac Mac Amhlaigh. He remarks on the Eurozone’s difficulty in agreeing …