Experiences
Manuel Müller is a Helsinki-based expert for supranational democracy and the institutional reform of the European Union. His interests also include the EU as a community of law, the European public sphere, and narratives about the purpose and finality of supranational integration. Since 2011, he has been running the German/English blog “Der (europäische) Föderalist” (www.foederalist.eu). Since 2025, he is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.
Manuel Müller studied Contemporary History and Spanish Philology in Bamberg, Granada and Berlin and completed his doctoral thesis on the European public debate about the Maastricht treaty negotiations at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Research Advisor and a Senior Researcher at Institut für Europäische Politik. Afterwards, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA). He has also been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and at the University of Helsinki’s Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (Eurostorie).
Manuel Müller regularly writes and speaks about European institutional affairs and EU democracy. His journalistic articles have appeared in Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, and Helsingin Sanomat, among others. Since 2023, he writes a regular column on the European political party landscape for Europe.Table.
Languages
- German
- English
- Spanish
- Italian
- French
