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Yearbook of European Integration 2025

Geopolitical shifts, Trump’s return to office, a stronger security and defence focus of the new European Commission, and a rightward shift in Brussels shape the Yearbook of European Integration 2025.

integration 03/25

In issue 3/25 of integration, you can read analyses of the EU's equality and anti-discrimination policy, cohesion policy in the MFF, Germany's role in the EU-Turkey accession negotiations and the future of transatlantic relations, among other topics.

Ursula von der Leyen: A superhero in Ukraine?

How does EU enlargement work? What is the current state of play in Ukraine? What obstacles lie ahead? Laura Christoph and Julian Plottka explored these questions with a group of young Ukrainian journalists during an interactive online workshop on June 12, 2025.

A new German European policy: Merz’ Intergovernmentalism or von der Leyen’s Supranationalisation?

Berlin Perspectives

Many eyes follow the ongoing coalition talks between the conversatives and social democrats closely: will the new German government take on a stronger leadership role in the European Union?Julian Plottka analyses how German European policy could develop in the future.

Expert Exchange: Germany-Ukraine Dialogues on Rule of Law for EU Accession

Pathways to Progress

At the expert exchange on Ukraine on 12 December 2024 in Berlin, experts discussed the state of reforms, as well as the role of civil society in Ukraine’s EU accession process.

integration 04/24

In issue 4/24 of integration, you can read analyses and discussions on the 2024 European elections, EU debt financing, EU social policy, Europe's climate soft power and feminist foreign policy.

Yearbook of European Integration 2024

European elections, right-wing electoral success, Ukraine, and the Middle East conflict: The Yearbook of European Integration 2024 describes the most important developments of the past year and analyses their impact on the European Union and its member states.

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.

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!

integration 01/24

The reform of the European migration and asylum system, new concepts for the EU's political system, the upcoming European elections and the recent parliamentary elections in Poland - read analyses and discussions in issue 1/24 of the "integration".

Policy Dialogues on European Reform Priorities

Moldova continues to work on implementing the nine European reform priorities. Their implementation at the local level was the subject of our NEXT4EU Policy Dialogues.

Don’t forget the social dimension! Enabling social convergence in a new European governance framework

Berlin Perspectives

The planned new economic governance framework of the EU is of utter importance not only in a pure economic sense: It will determine the place of the social dimension within the integration process.

Germany’s EU Climate Policy: A Call to Action

Berlin Perspectives

Germany is expected to champion the EU’s green transition and fight against climate change. This Berlin Perspective policy brief explores how Germany has often failed to fulfil these expectations and how it can live up to them in the future.

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.

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.