Economics & Trade

The nature of global economic relations has shifted towards a geoeconomic world order that also affects the European Union at its core, its Single European Market (SEM). In our introductory article to a Special Issue we assess whether, how and why the SEM is experiencing such a geoeconomic turn, and how EU responses are shaping other international actors in the process.

In March, I decided to apply for a UACES Microgrant to receive funding to attend the 12th Biannual Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union, which took place between June 19th and 21st, 2024, in Lisbon at the Universidade NOVA.   The SGEU Biannual Conference, a significant event for those working in […]

Abstract This blog post explores the transformative trajectory of European Union’s (EU) innovation policies through the lens of three major pan-European innovation policy milestones since 2010: the Innovation Union (IU), Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) and Horizon Europe (2021-2025). The exposition argues that there has been a transition towards increasingly more comprehensive policy frameworks, which aim to […]

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.

Jannik Jansen, Policy Fellow at the Jacques Delors Centre in Berlin, shares insights with eu!radio from a recent survey, revealing that citizens across Germany, France, and Poland still strongly support ambitious climate action.

We recently welcomed Ana Bojinović Fenko to eu!radio! She is a professor of international relations at the University of Ljubljana. She reflected on her country's accession to the EU 20 years ago in a personal testimony.

Changes underway in the global political economy, including Sino-American tensions and the Covid-19 pandemic, are increasingly identified as creating new challenges and raising difficult questions about the role of prominent traders like the European Union (EU).

We recently welcomed Phoebus Athanassiou to eu!radio! He is an Associate Professor at the Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt, and is originally from Cyprus. He reflected on his country's accession to the EU 20 years ago in a personal testimony.

The global economic order has shifted dramatically over the past decade, moving from a business-centred liberal logic of trade and commerce to a politicised logic of conflict and power maximisation. This geoeconomic turn, the theme of a Special Issue forthcoming with JCMS, has also materialised in the European Union (EU) and the Single European Market (SEM), and has far-reaching implications for the world of business where policymakers replace companies as the main manager of economic interconnectedness.

Global shifts in power distribution and successive international crises have challenged key ideas and policies underpinning European Union (EU) external action and led to the formulation of a new narrative in which geopolitical considerations have come back to centre stage.