Join Thornsten Beck and Pierre Schlosser who will explore the macroeconomic consequences and the potential changes in the framework of EU fiscal and financial integration.
Join Ilaria Conti who will discuss the strong dependence of many European countries on Russian gas and oil exports.
Please join Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University, as he presents his recent research on the conflict of cultural divisions.
One of the most significant changes in West European politics in the past 40 years is the emergence of the new cultural divide. However, there is substantial variation across countries, over time and between issues in how the issues comprising the new cultural divide, such as immigration, European integration and the environment, have manifested themselves in West European party systems. This development raises the question of what mechanisms bring these new issues into established party systems. The literature has so far focused on the role of new political parties and critical junctures like the Eurocrisis or the 2015 migration crisis. This talk argues that the left-right structure and the incentives it provides for mainstream parties to expand political conflict to include new issues is a key condition for the integration of new political issues into party competition. Rather than seeing the integration of new issues as a matter of the emergence of a new, second conflict, it argues that new issues become central to party competition if the existing conflict structure, which in Western Europe means the left-right structure, presents established mainstream parties with vote-seeking or coalition-building incentives to focus on new political issues. If such incentives are not present, new political issues will not establish themselves as central issues in party competition. The talk uses Ireland as a negative case study to develop the argument.
Christoffer Green-Pedersen is a Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University. He has published extensively on party competition, agenda setting, and public policy in comparative perspective.
Speaker: Prof. Christoffer Green-Pedersen (University of Aarhus)
Join Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks who will discuss how we need to adapt our theoretical lenses to better assess the implications of Ukraine for the course of European integration.
Join Stephanie Hofmann for another of the EGPP special series on the Ukraine crisis
Join Philipp Genschel who will assess the evidence of the EU’s first reactions to the war in the Ukraine and explain why even ‘bellicist’ integration is unlikely to usher in a European superstate.
A workshop led by Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Julia Schulte-Cloos, and Eroll Kuhn on comparative politics of Europe.
The Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute is pleased to announce the Graduate Research Workshop on the Comparative Politics of Europe, 27-28 June, 2022.
The workshop, led by Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Julia Schulte-Cloos, and Eroll Kuhn, is an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present and receive feedback on their dissertation research in a constructive environment.
Ph.D. students writing dissertations on the comparative politics of Europe or the European Union are invited to apply. Those selected to participate in the workshop will present their research and participate in all workshop activities.
Join Brigid Laffan who will discuss whether the existing enlargement system will remain in place or whether the EU will have to reassess the fundamentals of the enlargement process itself.
Past events
- Testing Europe’s resilience in the Covid-19 crisis on 5 and 6 July 2021
- EU legislative affairs: long-term trends and pandemic challenges on 16 June 2021
- Europe’s New Fiscal Union on 2 June 2021
- The adoption of the EU’s Covid recovery plan on 26 May 2021
- Direct Democracy and the European Unification Process on 25 May 2021
- EU taxes and how they can increase citizens support for the European Union on 19 May 2021
- Democratising Europe’s economic government: The T-Dem Proposal of a Transnational Parliamentary Assembly on 12 May 2021
- A Republic of Europe? European democracy after the pandemic on 5 May 2021
- The European ambition: the group of the European People’s Party and European integration on 21 April 2021
- Coordinating Euro area fiscal policy to drive an inclusive recovery on 21 April 2021
- A Democratic Panopticon for the Recovery Fund as a new form of permanent citizen involvement in EU decision-making on 14 April 2021
- European Solidarity in Times of Crisis on 7 April 2021
- Europe Will Be Built Through Crises? Explaining the Variation in the Outcomes of Crises of European Integration on 24 March 2021
- The European Ambition – EPP Group & EUI Live Online Book Launch on 18 March 2021
- DiCE Networking Conference on Brexit on 11 and 12 March 2021
- Foundations of European Politics: A New Approach to Teaching the Politics of Europe on 10 March 2021
- 2020 Annual Conference ‘Europe’s Changing Political System and Issue Space. What Lessons from the 2019 European Elections?’ on 25 and 26 February 2021
- EU Member States’ Positions on Differentiated Integration. What Do Government’s Say They Want? on 24 February 2021
- Testing Europe’s Democratic Legitimacy in the Covid-19 Crisis on 16 February 2021
- When All the Pieces Do Not Fall Into Place. The Design of Regulatory Policy Instruments Across The EU Member States on 10 February 2021
- InDivEU Stakeholder Forum VII | France on 9 February 2021
- InDivEU Stakeholder Forum VI | Spain on 2 February 2021
- InDivEU Stakeholder Forum V | Finland on 28 January 2021
- Higher Education Diplomacy, research seminar on 27 January 2021
- No More Saints and Sinners: Tracing German Preference Formation in the EU’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, research seminar on 13 January 2021
- Towards a Segmented European Political Order: The European Union’s Post-crises Conundrum, research seminar on 16 December 2020
- BREXITLAND Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics, MPC webinar on 2 December 2020
- Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe, research seminar on 2 December 2020
- What Role for the European Parliament in the COVID-19 Crisis?, webinar on 1 December 2020
- InDivEU Stakeholder Forum IV | Estonia on 25 November 2020
- Political Consequences of the Great Recession – Key Results of the POLCON Project, research seminar on 18 November 2020
- InDivEU Stakeholder Forum III | Netherlands on 5 November 2020
- Postfunctionalism Reversed: Solidarity and Rebordering During the Corona-crisis, research seminar on 4 November 2020
- InDivEU Stakeholder Forum II | Slovakia on 29 October 2020
- Europe’s Cold War Relations. The EC Towards a Global Role, book presentation on 23 October 2020
- Itinera Europea: Four Scenarios and their Plausibility, research seminar on 21 October 2020
- InDivEU Stakeholder Forum | Poland on 19 October 2020
- Differentiated Integration and the Future of Europe: Promises, Pitfalls, Pathways, ACES conference on 30 September 2020
- (1) Failing Forward in Eastern Enlargement (2) EU Identity and the Limits of the Common Security and Defense Policy, EU Studies Group on 30 September 2020
- The Future of EU Unemployment Insurance: An Ethical Perspective, Conversations for the Future of Europe on 17 June 2020
- Integrating Diversity in the European Union, InDivEU project mid-term conference on 11-12 June 2020
- Constitutional Design of the European Union: Getting Rid of the Unanimity Rule, Conversations for the Future of Europe on 3 june 2020
- The Future of Direct Democratic Voting in the EU, Conversations for the Future of Europe on 22 May 2020
- “Whatever it takes”? How to Move Ahead in Post-crisis Europe, Conversations for the Future of Europe on 13 May 2020
- Addressing the European Solidarity Crisis through Education, Conversations for the Future of Europe on 14 April 2020
- A Differentiated Europe Facing Brexit – What Can We Learn from ‘the Norway Model’?, presentation on 24 February 2020
- The Future of Inequality in Europe, Conversations for the Future of Europe on 11 February 2020
- Eastern Europe 30 years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, conference on 8 November 2019
- The MFF and EU Policies 2021-2027: The EU towards 2030, workshop on 17 October 2019
- The State of the Union after the Juncker Years, EUI in Brussels event on 10 October 2019
- Europe in the New World (Dis)order, lecture on 5 September 2019
- Conversations for the Future of Europe: 5. Differentiated Integration, discussion on 4 June 2019
- ECPR 50th Anniversary: European Political Science at 50, workshop on 3-4 June 2019
- Bordering Europe, workshop on 30 May 2019
- The most contested European elections ever? A read-out of the 2019 vote for the European Parliament, roundtable on 29 May 2019
- The Effects of Multilevel Governance, conference on 23-24 May 2019
- Conversations for the Future of Europe: 4. The Future of Social Policy: Can Social Investment provide the basis for a European Social Union?, discussion on 30 April 2019
- Differentiated Integration as a Fair Scheme of Cooperation, workshop on 15 March 2019
- Recasting the Welfare State 20 Years Later, conference on 14-15 March 2019
- Conversations for the Future of Europe: 3. The Future of European Monetary Union, discussion on 5 March 2019
- Conversations for the Future of Europe: 2. Free Movement and Social Rights Conditionality, discussion on 19 February 2019
- Germany and European (Dis?)Integration, book launch on 1 February 2019
- Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration, Workshop on 31 January 2019
- Integrating Diversity in the European Union, Kick-off meeting Project InDivEU on 24 January 2019
- Conversations for the Future of Europe: 1. The Future of Refugee Policy and Burden-Sharing in Europe, discussion on 15 January 2019
- Europeanization Revisited: Central and Eastern Europe in the European Union, an Ebook presentation on 30 November 2018
- What Scenarios for Italy and the Eurozone?, а roundtable on the current political crisis in Italy and the Eurozone on 6 June 2018
- Conversations for the Future of Europe: 4. What would a good Brexit be like?, discussion on 5 June 2018
- Re-engaging Grand Theory: European Integration in the 21st Century, conference held at the EUI on 31 May – 1 June 2018
- Conversations for the Future of Europe: 3. Why and how must the physical protection of European citizens be enhanced?, discussion on 29 May 2018
- NORFACE Welfare State Futures Programme Final Conference, conference held at the EUI on 24-25 May 2018
- Conversations for the Future of Europe: 2. How can European institutions and their decisions acquire greater legitimacy in the citizens’ eyes?, discussion on 22 May 2018
- Conversations for the Future of Europe: 1. What is the next step for the social protection of European citizens?, discussion on 15 May 2018
- 2017: Europe’s Bumper Year of Elections, EGPP launch conference held at the EUI on 8-9 March 2018
- The Referendum Challenge to the European Union, conference held at the EUI on 25-26 January 2018