On 18 March, Kyrgyzstan confirmed the first three cases of the Covid-19 pandemic. The country has declared a state of emergency and and closed its international borders. As of 30th June, Kyrgyzstan counted 5296 confirmed cases of Covid-19, 2370 recoveries …
The sad news of the sudden death of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Belke has deeply shaken the Institut für Europäische Politik and is a grave loss, both humanly and scientifically. Prof. Belke had been closely associated with the IEP for many …
By Ingolf Pernice
In May 2020, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) ruled that the country’s government and the parliament had violated the “right to democracy” of German citizens by failing to meet their responsibility with regard to European integration, for …
In advance of the upcoming debate on EU reform during the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), three policy papers by Manuel Müller and Julian Plottka of Institut für Europäische Politik identify major deficiencies of the EU’s democratic legitimacy …
On 25 and 26 June 2020, the German Pre-Presidency Conference (PPC) and the associated Annual Meeting of the IEP Academic Advisory Board of the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) took place for the first time in an innovative virtual edition …
What is the status quo of German-Ukrainian bilateral relations and what changes occurred during the first year of Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidency? How should these relations be shaped in the future to meet the expectations of both sides? These questions were …
On 01 July 2020 the virtual format of the concluding conference of the project “EU Perceptions and Reality in Moldova” (WE&EU) was successfully held. This public event was attended by high-ranking representatives such as the German Ambassador, Mrs. Angela Ganninger …
Georgia, similar to the other countries, has been struggling with the Covid-19 since February 2020. In an interview, Professor Kornely Kakachia discusses how the government and society have been handling the pandemic since then and particularly, how the virus has …