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The Mobilisation of EU Market Power: Drivers, Limits and Future Prospects

JCMS |

The EU is currently mobilising its market power through a range of new policy tools. Examples include the Climate Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAM), the International Procurement Instrument and the Anti-Coercion Instrument. The general aim, as explained in the EU’s trade policy review and the recent industrial strategy, is to make the EU stronger, more assertive and more geopolitically relevant.

Half-time talk

Albrecht Sonntag |

French-German commemorations are a reassuring routine, especially on the governmental level. They are the occasion of some shoulder-tapping, large smiles that are not even unsincere, welcome obligations to bask in the sunshine of what has been achieved over all these years rather than in the shadow of the challenges that lie ahead. And contrary to […]

Visionary, prudent, and successful

Albrecht Sonntag |

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 […]

Living with the graveyard

Albrecht Sonntag |

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 […]

50 years ago, the UK joined the EEC

eu!radio |

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.

How did you do it?

Albrecht Sonntag |

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 […]

Assessing the EU’s normative power through the lens of ‘soft law’ diffusion: a case study of the EU’s promotion of economic norms in ASEAN

Xuechen Chen, Xinchuchu Gao |

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 […]

Understanding EU Law from a Constitutional Theory Perspective

Massimo Fichera |

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 […]

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