Volume 39 (2016), Edition 2

This article embeds the EU’s attempts to reform its asylum policy in the context of the refugee crisis in a more longitudinal analysis. It focuses on the question of how the EU has sought to achieve more solidarity between states with high and...

The relations between Switzerland and the European Union have not made substantial progress for years. The hitherto ongoing bilateral process has stalled. Switzerland is asking for further bilateral negotiations, if applicable in a new package of...

This article argues that the lack of identification with the European Union by its citizens is more due to the lack of democratic practice than its institutional structure. The former is, according to Chantal Mouffe, marked by disputes about...

On 23 June 2016, the British citizens decide about their country’s EU membership. In order to gain a majority in favour of the EU membership the British Prime Minister David Cameron negotiated further opt-outs from EU law for Great Britain, in...