Volume 40 (2017), Edition 2

Since the beginning of the process of European integration, policy-makers and scholars alike keep facing an ever-resurging question: Which states take part in which kind of expansion and extension of the common (West-)European construction? Along...

The so-called Brexit referendum of June 2016 constitutes not only the beginning, but also the temporary point of culmination of a new phase in the problematic relationship between European integration and direct democracy. Whereas during the 1990s...

The legislative package “Clean Energy for All Europeans” tabled by the European Commission aims at structuring the framework for climate and energy policies by 2030. Key element of the package is the energy governance regulation which focuses on...

Faced with a series of fundamental crises, the EU actually appears significantly constrained in its capacity to act. The causes for this situation are seen in recent transformations within the Union, overlapping and reinforcing each other. The core...