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Manuel Müller is a political scientist based in Helsinki whose research focuses on the institutions of the European Union and supranational democracy. His areas of interest also include the EU as a legal community, the European public sphere, and narratives about the purpose and finality of supranational integration. Since 2011, he has been running the blog ‘Der (europäische) Föderalist’ (www.foederalist.eu). He has also been a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2025.
Manuel Müller studied modern and contemporary history and Hispanic studies in Bamberg, Granada and Berlin and received his doctorate from Humboldt University in Berlin with a thesis on the European public sphere and the Maastricht Treaty. From 2019 to 2021, he was a research fellow and senior researcher at the Institute for European Politics. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Duisburg-Essen and as a senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA). He was also a visiting scholar at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and at the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (Eurostorie) at the University of Helsinki.
Manuel Müller regularly publishes and speaks on issues relating to European democracy and EU reform. His articles have appeared in publications including Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik and Helsingin Sanomat. Since 2023, he has been writing a regular column on the European party landscape for Europe.Table.
Languages
- German
- English
- Spanish
- Italian
- French
