Volume 41 (2018), Issue 2

The results of the Italian parliamentary elections of March 4th, 2018, triggered lasting uncertainty in the European Union: initially, because of unclear majorities that resulted in three months of a “hung parliament” until the formation of the...

Emmanuel Macron has presented a number of speeches on the future of the EU which point to a fundamental change of paradigm in the French presidential discourse on the EU. For the first time, a French president tries to translate his domestic role of...

The Brexit referendum in June 2016 rekindled the discussion about the future of European integration, leading to a number of initiatives by different European actors. This article sums up the state of the current reform debate, showing that so far,...