Volume 40 (2017), Edition 1

Federal Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble presented prospects for the future of European integration on the occasion of the 70th jubilee of the “Europa-Union Deutschland”, Germany’s largest pro-European citizens’ initiative. Starting...

The strategic environment of the EU has changed dramatically over the past years. In response to the new challenges, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign and Security Policy has published a new Global Strategy which sets out the EU’s...

The British decision to leave the European Union resulted in two debates on the future of the EU: First, the Union has to reach an agreement with the United Kingdom on how to organise Brexit. Second, the EU institutions and the remaining 27 member...

The article discusses possibilities and limits of representative democracy in the EU multilevel system against the background of governance mechanisms that have been developed in the EU’s current financial crisis. The core argument is that these...