The European Union (EU) has created a Single Market in financial services, the evolution of which has become entangled with geoeconomics, i.e., ‘the systematic use of economic instruments to accomplish geopolitical objectives’ (Blackwill and Harris 2016, p. 1). The main rationale of geoeconomic measures is not the achievement of mutually beneficial economic gains, but rather the pursuit of geostrategic advantages by seeking relative rather than absolute gains.
It’s a week until the General Election, so a good point to consider the European issue in the campaign so far. This will be a short post, mostly because very few parties want to talk about the EU, and those that do are using it for a very specific purpose. Quite the contrast to 2019. […]
Discover how mini-publics, an innovative research method, enhance transparency and trust in governance post-COVID. Join Rita Hornok from Jagiellonian University as she shares insights from the REGROUP project on citizen engagement and fighting disinformation.
Climate change, authoritarianism, poverty, terrorism, energy-shortages, genocide, population growth. These are only some of the global challenges the world is currently facing. Lists of global challenges seek to identify the greatest of them, international organizations like the United Nations take them as the starting point for their Sustainable Development Goals, and non-governmental groups like the World Economic Forum put them at the top of their political agenda.
The issue of the perception of the European Union (EU) in the North Caucasus deserves special attention. This region, which includes the republics of Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia, has unique ethnic, cultural, and political characteristics. Unlike other regions of Russia, where ethnic Russians dominate, the North Caucasus is a microcosm where official and unofficial discourses about Europe take various forms.
"As a Chinese female scholar, this scholarship has been crucial in endorsing the quality of my research, providing me with strong support when communicating with potential interviewees from the Union."
Simona Guerra shares fascinating insights into the backgrounds, challenges, and achievements of the first women in the European Parliament. Learn how their legacies shape our understanding of political representation today.
Discover the moving story of La Cambe's Peace Garden in Normandy, where a simple maple tree stands as a testament to reconciliation and peace, as told by Albrecht to eu!radio.
On April 10th, 2024, the European Parliament voted to endorse the European Commission’s proposal on a ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’. After nearly ten years since the so-called 2015 ‘refugee crisis’ and the first proposal for the amendment of the Common European Asylum System with the ‘European Agenda on Migration’, the reform of the EU asylum policy seems to be walking its last steps to the finishing line.
My article, recently published in JCMS, looks into how ongoing policy processes are discursively legitimated. It argues that that in order to satisfy complex demands on their legitimacy, policy makers tend to legitimate them not only by referring to the status quo (the current – new – state of affairs), but also by legitimating the status ad que (the future state) and delegitimating the status quo ante (the previous state).
