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On 22 January 2023, France and Germany celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, rightly praised as a milestone in Europe’s post-war history. But the Treaty only institutionalised on governmental level a process towards reconciliation that civil society had already initiated without waiting for politics. This is the third post of a series of […]

On 22 January 2023, France and Germany celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, rightly praised as a milestone in Europe’s post-war history. But the Treaty only institutionalised on governmental level a process towards reconciliation that civil society had already initiated without waiting for politics. This is the second post of a series of […]

For our weekly ‘Ideas on Europe’ editorial by UACES, the University Association for European Studies, we welcome Malin Stegmann McCallion

January is, of course, the worst month to start a year, but before you know it we’ll be back to brightening evenings and talk of exam boards, so we can all look forward to those.

50 years ago, together with Denmark and Ireland, the UK joined the European Economic Community, as it was called then. But unlike the two others, Britain has no anniversary to celebrate.

On 22 January 2023, France and Germany celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, rightly praised as a milestone in Europe’s post-war history. But the Treaty only institutionalised on governmental level a process towards reconciliation that civil society had already initiated without waiting for politics. This is the first post of a series of […]

The content of this post was presented at the launch workshop of the EUFutures Research Network held at City, University of London on 4 November 2022.  In this post, we argue that research on soft law in the EU’s external relations may benefit from theoretical and empirical insights from Political Science & IR (e.g. Norm […]

The content of this post was presented at the launch workshop of the EUFutures Research Network held at City, University of London on 4 November 2022. Massimo Fichera is TIAS Senior Collegium Fellow and works at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku. How can constitutional theory as a methodology contribute to the study of […]

Yesterday I found myself on the brink of an interesting discussion about Brexit. Which possibly says something about me, as much as it does about the subject. We’d started talking about public opinion and the emergence of what looks like a more robust move towards thinking that EU membership is a good thing. John Curtis […]

On 4 November 2022, the UACES/James Madison Trust funded EUFutures Research Network held its launch workshop at The City Law School, City, University of London. The organisers have now published a report summarising the workshop entitled ‘Understanding legal integration/disintegration: in search of new perspectives’. The event consisted of four panels bringing together scholars from across […]