ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. The real choice: European or national rearmament, supranational or intergovernmental European defence?
- (Editorial)
- Roberto Castaldi The debate on European defence seems confused. This is due to the fact that when member states cannot deal with a supranational problem, which requires at least European, if not ...
- Created on 09 May 2025
- 2. The Global Gateway to Latin America. Strengths and bottlenecks of the European strategy: a mid-term review
- (Essay)
- Gabriele Casano, Olimpia Fontana, Federico Nastasi The Global Gateway (GG) has been presented as the EU flagship foreign policy initiative to fill the global investment gap, with a regional focus ...
- Created on 08 April 2025
- 3. The European Union as a Form of ‘Functional Federalism’
- (Essay)
- Giuseppe Martinico In this contribution, I shall explore the concept of ‘functional federalism’ as developed by Peter Hay in his book Federalism and Supranational Organizations: Patterns for New ...
- Created on 29 July 2024
- 4. ‘Spearheaded Asymmetry’ in “Multinational” European Federalising Processes: the Asymmetric Challenges in ‘Regional States’
- (Essay)
- ... to explain the asymmetric claims of autonomist and ethno-regionalist parties in some European regional states, notably in Italy and Spain. The asymmetrical demands of political movements representing national ...
- Created on 24 July 2024
- 5. Independence in the European Union
- (Essay)
- ... Scotland or the Basque Country. After tracing this telos to the federal nature of the European Union, this essay analyses the legal arguments which support the claim to political independence of those ...
- Created on 21 March 2024
- 6. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration
- (Essay)
- ... a two-thirds majority, sufficient to alter the constitution, in 2010, has turned away from the European Union. For a considerable length of time the EU’s existing mechanisms for dealing with crises were ...
- Created on 22 January 2024
- 7. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
- (Essay)
- ... of resources from European states to Africa might entail, both in terms of supporting the development of the African continent through the definition of a ‘Next Generation Africa’, and in terms of a substantial ...
- Created on 09 November 2022
- 8. European Republicanism and the Return of Geopolitics in European Integration Theory
- (Essay)
- ... years of continuity with an economic focus, follow a more “value-driven” and “republican” foreign policy. Are we therefore witnessing a turning point in European integration, with a stronger shift from ...
- Created on 28 July 2022
- 9. The Role of the European Union in Secessionist Conflicts
- (Essay)
- Secession in a EU context analysed from a multilevel governance unravels that there is in fact room EU interference in secessionist conflicts. Nevertheless, a balance should be struck between such commitment ...
- Created on 20 September 2021
- 10. European Taxes and Fiscal Justice: Citizens’ Support and Lessons from the US
- (Essay)
- ... be effectively - and justly - levied by the highest level of government, the revenue from which could then be used for the common goods. Importantly, our data, based on YouGov survey conducted in 11 European ...
- Created on 30 March 2021
- 11. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe
- (Essay)
- Giovanni Boggero This paper examines the dual role of European capital cities as both symbols of national sovereignty and autonomous local government units. Despite their increasing prominence in ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 12. Troubled Legacies: The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 and the Thin Line Between Impunity and Reconciliation
- (Essay)
- ... reconciliation between communities. However, the Act has been heavily criticised for being in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and was challenged before courts. On the one hand, ...
- Created on 18 June 2025
- 13. Nurturing Integration through Dialogue: The Role of Courts in Supranational Contexts
- (Essay)
- Allan F. Tatham Taking the Court of Justice of the European Union (especially its procedure of the reference for a preliminary ruling) as providing a suitable model to emulate for courts of other ...
- Created on 25 July 2024
- 14. What Can Asymmetric Federalism and Differentiation in EU Law Learn From Each Other? Asymmetric Federalism as an Explanatory Model for Differentiation in EU Law
- (Essay)
- Marjan Kos The article applies the concept of asymmetric federalism to differentiation in European Union (EU) law. By doing this, it brings together two strands of literature that share many similarities ...
- Created on 23 July 2024
- 15. Federalism and institutional structure
- (Editorial)
- ... European Union, the European Parliament election in June 2024 marked the beginning of the 2024-2029 institutional cycle. The results of the latest European election are not easy to decipher. On the one ...
- Created on 22 March 2024
- 16. Indefinite detention of refugees ruled unconstitutional by the High Court of Australia – an opportunity for Europe to pause for thought?
- (Notes)
- Jock Gardiner and Silvia Talavera Lodos The High Court of Australia recently handed down the landmark decision of NZYQ, ruling the policy of indefinitely detaining non-citizen, non-visa holders ...
- Created on 05 March 2024
- 17. Comparing fiscalisations: a review of Fiscal Unions by Tomasz Woźniakowski
- (Review articles)
- A review of Fiscal Unions: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States by Tomasz P. Woźniakowski (OUP 2022). Download pdf
- Created on 05 October 2023
- 18. Digitalising Agricultural and Food Systems: policy challenges and actions for the sustainable transition in the EU
- (Essay)
- ... promising solutions for addressing these challenges. The European Commission's "From Farm to Fork" Strategy and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) place digital technology at the forefront of achieving ...
- Created on 08 September 2023
- 19. The Reallocation of Special Drawing Rights to the Benefit of the African Continent: A Proposal for Euro Area Countries
- (Essay)
- ... in February 2022 and prepared within the initiatives of the project “For a European Union - African Union Plan on the New Allocation of the IMF’s SDRs” (with Professor Fabio Masini as principal investigator), ...
- Created on 08 November 2022
- 20. Next Generation Africa: Economic impact and mutual benefits from a strategic EU-Africa partnership
- (Essay)
- ... on both sides of the partnership, for Next Generation Africa. Paper originally published in February 2022 and prepared within the initiatives of the project “For a European Union - African Union Plan ...
- Created on 04 November 2022
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