The Check on the Check: What the Limits of Article 265 TFEU Reveal about Horizontal Accountability within the EU While all European Union (EU) institutions have, to some extent, the obligation to ensure compliance with the Treaties’ values and norms, it is the European Commission that bears responsibility for overseeing and securing compliance as the […]
What does excellence in European Studies look like? For a long time, the answer has been shaped in relatively narrow ways. Publications, major research outputs and senior recognition have often taken centre stage. These contributions remain vital to the field, but they do not capture the full picture. European Studies is also built through teaching, […]
The team of the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) will bring you fresh commentaries and analyses on current challenges to European integration. We are an interdisciplinary group focusing on the economic, legal, and political developments of the European Union and currently a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. It is through the Centre of […]
For our weekly “Ideas on Europe” editorial by UACES, the University Association for European Studies, we welcome Prof Amelia Hadfield, who is Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey, in England. euradio · EU Strategic Autonomy : Now or Never ? – Ideas on Europe […]
By Chiara Russo A look to the (not so far) future While the UK has reported the highest number of deaths due Covid-19, countries like Italy are entering into “phase 2”, relaxing strict measures a little and allowing people, not only to meet their nearest relatives and friends, but to take their beloved espresso directly at a café. However, […]
by Chiara Russo On Friday 17th April 2020, little more than one month after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the European Parliament approved the freeing up of €3.08 billion to support member states’ healthcare systems during this time of crisis. The financing of this action is to come entirely from EU budget. The EP and the Council […]
Following the Conservative party victory in the 2015 UK general election, Tobias Lock presents the key findings of a policy paper which resulted from a UACES Small Event grant funded workshop.
The study of the European Union (EU), as we all know, is a commitment to a particular set of theoretical attachments as much as it is an interest in the institutions within the region of Europe. Terms such as ‘multi-level governance’, ‘supranationalism’, ‘neofunctionalism’ and ‘liberal intergovernmentalism’ are seldom deployed outside of European Studies, or even […]
When historians come to analyse and to write the story of Britain’s troubled and turbulent relationship with the other countries of Europe since the end of the Second World War- and they are already beginning to do so [...]
As part of the Evolving Europe project, UACES asked participants at the 40 Years since the First Enlargement conference to respond to the question ‘What have been the most significant changes in the 1973 accession states as a result of EU membership?’ Following on from Thorsten Borring Olesen’s response in relation to Denmark, Elaine Fahey (University of Amsterdam) […]
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