Volume 41 (2018), Issue 1

This article presents the global movements, trends and actors driving EU-Turkey relations: namely, the global shift of power, the declining liberal international order and the rise of authoritarianism, populism, the new US foreign policy under Trump...

Since 2012, EU citizens can use the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to invite the European Commission to propose a legal act on matters, where they consider EU regulation necessary. Considerable practical problems in the ECI process, both for...

Germany and France have pushed forward security and defense cooperation during the last months. Bilaterally, they agreed on a wide range of future armament cooperation and multilaterally, they gave momentum to the long dormant process of Permanent...

The article sheds light upon the position of the European Parliament and the German Bundestag during the negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 (MFF), as both parliamentary levels play a formal role in the budgetary process....