Commentaries
Solidarity: Three Takeaways for the Year Ahead
Solidarity is a complex concept with deep roots in legal and social theory. At its core, it reflects a fundamental commitment: to act together in the face of shared adversity, […]
Internal EU policies
Publications
Commentaries
Navigating the Population Change in the EU: Possible Pathways to Demographic Resilience
Our world is undergoing serious demographic shifts that are expected to increase significantly in the next three decades. The European Union will be confronted with a serious fall in fertility […]
Commentaries
The EU Enlargement Test: Dilemmas of Geopolitics, Conditionality, and Public Concerns
Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine has changed the European Union’s attitude towards the prospects of enlargement. While in previous years, European leaders remained skeptical about the EU’s absorption capacity and […]
Strengthening EU Participatory Governance: Lessons Learnt from the Platform on Sustainable Finance
The European Commission’s participatory governance framework plays a crucial role in shaping EU policies, as exemplified by the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF). However, the PSF’s first two mandates revealed […]
Commentaries
The Future of Europe: Another Historic Moment?
On 10 September 2025, in her much-anticipated State of the Union address, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered a stark message: Europe is locked in a struggle to safeguard […]
External publications
Towards a Preparedness Union Strategy? Show us the money!
The 2024-2029 Strategic Agenda which the European Council adopted at its meeting of 27 June 2024 harks back to a wish outlined in the conclusions of a number of previous […]