Volume 38 (2015), Edition 4

The pre-eminent issue in British European policy since the general elections returned a Conservative majority government in May 2015 is the ‘in-or-out’ referendum on Britain’s European Union membership which will take place before the end of...

The first year of Jean-Claude Juncker’s presidency of the European Commission has now passed. With reference to the institution’s history, its current political environment and its internal organization, this article provides a preliminary...

Even though the topic of European identity was intensively discussed following the Treaty of Maastricht, it hardly receives attention today. That is not without reason. The European Union faces not just a number of crises, but it is threatened by...

Despite the deteriorating relations between Russia and the West during the past years, the author supports a European perspective of Russia. The country is an essential part of European politics, economy and culture. But being an integral part of...