On 26 September 2017, the French President Emmanuel Macron pushed forward and revitalised the debate regarding reforms and the future of the European Union giving an ambitious speech at the Sorbonne-University in Paris. Taking place only shortly after the German …
The current world and regional political situation does not only pose a challenge for inner EU integration processes but also attracts attention for the external dimension of integration and the design of political cooperation in the neighboring spaces of the …
Since 2011 Tunisia underwent a democratic transition, yet still finds itself in the middle of a consolidation process. Political challenges are still too numerous to allow for permanent acceptance of the democratic order. This introductory article should, next to supplying …
In the new issue of integration, Björn Hacker discusses the potential of the European Pillar of Social Rights to strengthen the EU’s social dimension. Andreas Wimmel analyses how far party positions in the 19th German Bundestag on the European Commission’s …
In the new issue of integration, Peter Becker covers the negotiation process of the next multiannual financial framework 2021-2027 and underlines the necessity of finding a reliable balance between budgetary predictability on the one hand and political adaptability on the …
For the first time since its proclamation, the European Commission will incorporate the European Pillar of Social Rights in the European Semester 2017/18. However, the potential of the accompanying social scoreboard to identify social ills in the EU is used …
The days following the Italian parliamentary elections of 4 March 2018 were marked by alarmist headlines in the German and international press. Some of them even longed for the former Prime Minister Berlusconi, who was hitherto infamous as an enfant …
In the new issue of integration, Alexander Grasse and Jan Labitzke deal extensively with the Italian parliamentary elections of March 2018 and analyse the election results as well as their background, examine the government parties’ coalition agreement and the personnel …