Volume 39 (2016), Edition 1

Not the least during the Euro crisis, the European Union has become subject to open public contestation. This politicization creates opposition to European institutions and their policies, but it also raises public awareness about the relevance and...

The creation of the European Stability Mechanism and the Fiscal Compact in 2012 was intended to stabilise the Euro zone permanently. In the public debate, both institutions represent different concepts of the Economic and Monetary Union: On one...

Disputes between a foreign investor and a host country arising out of governmental meas­ures regarding foreign investments have been resolved by intergovernmental arbitration for several decades. Triggered by TTIP, investor-state dispute settlement...

Given the number of challenges the EU faces today the fundamentals of European integration are in danger for the first time in EU history. But let us be clear: the EU is not the problem but the solution to the given problems! Europe is at...