Volume 40 (2017), Edition 3

The French presidential elections open a window of opportunity for French European policy and for the European Union. Against the rising tide of Euroscepticism in France, Emmanuel Macron was able to win this electoral contest with an openly...

There has been a connection between Scottish independence and Europe for decades. In 1988, the SNP introduced its slogan “Independence in Europe”. However, recent constitutional, political and European developments led to the present situation...

The article categorizes political proposals and scientific concepts of flexible integration using a two- directional and multidimensional concept of EU (dis-)integration. Causalities for (dis-)integration as- sumed by the theories of European...

Various models have been proposed to make the European Union (EU) more flexible. The Brexit makes the model of concentric circles attractive, but it remains unsettled how such a flexibilisation can be embedded in the political structure. If we...

The euro crisis has shown that the common currency has major design flaws. Therefore, efforts have been made in recent years to strengthen the institutions of the euro area and to better prepare it against future crises. Emmanuel Macron, who won the...

Flexibility within the EU is often judged as a possibility to foster integration and to overcome stagna- tion. This text in contrast takes a more pessimistic position and argues from a theoretical and empiric perspective that many forms of...