This article reviews how different integration theories interpret which political actors mattered
in governmental preference formation during the euro crisis. It presents new evidence on the …

In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the German government embraced a major shift
towards a grants-based EU recovery fund relying on common European debt. How can we …

The refugee crisis which hit the European Union and its member states during 2015-16 was
just one in a series of recent crises, but perhaps the most critical for the EU's resilience. This …

The evidence of the two recent decades is illustrative. The Eurozone crisis divided the richer
northern member states and the poorer southern member states (Verdun, 2015). This …

Over the past few years, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has been one of the most divisive
issues in EU politics, with some member states opposing the project, others supporting it …

Résumé Cet article explore les transformations du modèle d'administration territoriale
français et les processus de migration de l'autorité depuis le milieu des années 1970 à partir …

The gridlock on the European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS), the missing pillar of the
banking union, is most commonly attributed to moral hazard concerns on the side of …

The aim of this article is to analyse whether, why and with which consequences courts
support or on the contrary oppose decisions taken by non-majoritarian institutions and …

In the literature on the multiple crises that have affected the EU over more than a decade, the
European Council has invariably been cast as the EU's crisis manager. While not …

The aim of its introduction is threefold: We start from a conceptual clarification of preference
formation, defining it provisionally as a political process 'by which social actors decide what …