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Yearbook of European Integration 2025
30/12/2025

IEP
IEP

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.

The European political year was marked by profound geopolitical shifts: In response to Donald Trump’s return to the White House and his ambivalent stance toward Ukraine, Europeans significantly strengthened their own security and defence policy, increasingly coordinated by the European Commission.

Its likewise re-elected President Ursula von der Leyen has consistently emphasized the need for progress toward “strategic autonomy” – arguably the most significant leitmotif of contemporary EU politics.

Against this backdrop, and in light of Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, the Yearbook of European Integration 2025 analyses the political, institutional and societal dynamics of the year.

The 45th edition documents developments between the summers of 2024–2025 and continues the yearbook’s long-standing chronicle of European integration since 1980.

Downloads & sources

Table of Content (German) (PDF 233,9 kB) Preface by the Editor Weidenfeld & Wessels (German) (PDF 135,0 kB)
www.nomos-shop.de - Print ( ISBN: 978-3-7560-1625-9) www.inlibra.com - Web ( ISBN: 978-3-7489-4084-5)

Team & authors

Prof Dr Funda Tekin
Director
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Jakob Burger
Research Associate
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Janika Wiborny
IEP Alumna
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Amelie Bendel
Student assistant
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Lennart Kreuzfeld
IEP Alumnus
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About the Yearbook of European Integration project: How is the EU dealing with current crises? In which direction is European integration heading? What has happened in Brussels and the member states in the last year? The Yearbook of European Integration has been answering these questions annually since 1980.

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ISSN/ISBN: 978-3-7560-1625-9, 978-3-7489-4084-5
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