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In the heart of Europe, Europe at the heart? European policy implications of the German federal election 2025

The CDU, which emerged from the elections as the strongest force, is committed to European cooperation. Our trilateral debate with experts from the partner countries France and Poland shows how the major European policy challenges can be addressed.

Symposium and lunch debate: The European Council turns 50!

Since it was founded, the body of heads of state and government has often been at the centre of events in Brussels. Today, the European Council is faced with trend-setting decisions in view of the many domestic and foreign policy challenges.

Right-wing extremists in the European Parliament in 2024

Following the EU elections, the Parliament elected its committee chairs at the end of July. While the right-wing nationalist "European Conservatives and Reformists" received a number of posts, far-right groups were left empty-handed. Find out more in the EUle video!

Election President of the European Commission 2024

Ursula von der Leyen is running for a second term as President of the European Commission. Whether she will take over the EU's top job for another five years will be decided on Thursday. Find out more in our EUle video!

Formation of political groups in the EU Parliament 2024

On 16 July 2024, the newly elected European Parliament convenes for its first session in Strasbourg. With 720 MEPs, new political groups are forming, particularly on the right-wing fringe. EUle sheds light on the formation of political groups in the EU Parliament 2024.

Strategic Realignment in Turbulent times

What strategic priorities should the EU set considering global circumstances in 2024, the European election year? Experts discussed these and other questions with Jim Cloos, Secretary General of the Trans European Studies Association (TEPSA).

Lunch Debate: Strategic stepping stones and stumbling blocks on the road to EU enlargement

This IEP-Lunch Debate addressed the relationship between EU enlargement and reforms at the time of the December European Council meeting. Enlargement and reforms should go hand in hand, but which reforms are necessary and how they should be implemented is controversial.

Press statement on the release of the 2022 Rule of Law Report

On 13 July 2022, the European Commission published the third annual Rule of Law Report. In RESILIO's press statement, Maria Skóra assesses the positive and negative developments.

Der bewaffnete Angriff Russlands auf die Ukraine zwingt Millionen von Menschen auf die Flucht. Laut UNHCR werden bis zu 4 Millionen Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine erwartet, eine Flüchtlingsbewegung, die die größte Flüchtlingskrise dieses Jahrhunderts bedeuten könnte.

Policy Paper: Electoral equality and EU-wide lists

Strengthening Democratic Legitimacy

Up until now, there has been no electoral equality in European elections: votes from larger countries have less weight. A proportional balance via EU-wide lists could solve the problem without putting smaller states in a worse position.

integration 3/21

The political power game between France and Turkey, the "new agenda" for the Mediterranean, three readings of the German Constitutional Court’s PSPP ruling and other topics in the new issue of integration.

Policy paper – Make European elections more meaningful

Strengthening Democratic Legitimacy

If elections for the European Parliament were more consequential the democracy would be strengthened.

Prosperity and resilience as the new panacea? The new EU Central Asia strategy in view of the security-development nexus

The EU strongly connects security and development issues in Central Asia, argues Karina Turan. The paper focuses on the guiding paradigms of the EU’s new Central Asia strategy within the scope of the security-development nexus.