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This blog, curated by the BRIDGE Network, investigates current European Union crises and their impact on European integration.

30 Jun 2022

The Rule of Law Crisis and the Supremacy of EU Law

25 Apr 2022

Ukraine has Utterly Changed the Politics of EU Enlargement

12 Apr 2022

After the Hungarian Elections, What is the Way Forward for the Opposition?

30 Mar 2022

The Rise of Regional Groups in the EU

23 Mar 2022

The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis: Consequences for Europe

24 Feb 2022

Beyond the Border Emergency: The Long Road to Integration and Inclusion in Italian Schools

21 Feb 2022

The CJEU Gives its Green Light for the Conditionality Regulation

2 Feb 2022

Citizen Governance: Crisis, Climate, and Migration from a Human Point of View

27 Jan 2022

Restoring Constitutionalism in Hungary

27 Jan 2022

Strategic (Non-)Enforcement of Competition Law and the Rule of Law Crisis

25 Jan 2022

The Separation of Powers Principle as “Characterizing the Operation of the Rule of Law” – The CJEU’s Standards on Judicial Independence Applied Beyond Illiberal Regimes

21 Jan 2022

More Politicization, More Externalization: EU Migration Governance 7 Years After the Crisis

20 Jan 2022

Divergent Conceptions of the Rule of Law To Combat Multiple Threats

7 Jan 2022

Asymmetrical Policies for Global Taxation of Multinationals

7 Jan 2022

Russia Comes to Rescue the Kazakhstan Regime: But at What Price?

9 Dec 2021

A Guide to the BRIDGE Network Interactive Maps

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10 Oct 2021

Country Report: Bulgaria

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8 Oct 2021

Country Report: Austria

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8 Oct 2021

Country Report: UK

8 Oct 2021

The Polish Constitutional Tribunal Asserts the Primacy of National Constitution over EU Law — In Words with No Legal Force

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8 Oct 2021

Country Report: Belgium

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7 Oct 2021

Country Report: Sweden

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7 Oct 2021

Country Report: Spain

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1 Oct 2021

Country Report: Malta

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30 Sep 2021

Country Report: Slovakia

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27 Sep 2021

Country Report: Cyprus

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27 Sep 2021

Country Report: Netherlands

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21 Sep 2021

Country Report: Latvia

20 Sep 2021

States of Emergency: The Humanitarian Crisis on the EU-Belarus Border

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20 Sep 2021

Country Report: Portugal

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15 Sep 2021

Country Report: Romania

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14 Sep 2021

Country Report: Croatia

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13 Sep 2021

Country Report: France

10 Sep 2021

The Price of Thrashing the Rule of Law: EC Requests CJEU to Impose Financial Sanctions on Poland

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10 Sep 2021

Country Report: Germany

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1 Sep 2021

Country Report: Czechia

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26 Aug 2021

Country Report: Luxembourg

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23 Aug 2021

Country Report: Poland

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11 Aug 2021

Country Report: Lithuania

16 Jul 2021

Brexit and Northern Ireland: A role for the US?

14 Jul 2021

The European Parliament to halt Hungary’s state-sponsored discrimination

12 Jul 2021

An Evolutionary Explanation of the Next Generation EU Plan

8 Jul 2021

Brexit and the Rights of EU Citizenship

6 Jul 2021

The opportunity of the Slovenian Presidency to the Council of the European Union

2 Jul 2021

Event Report: The Post-Pandemic EU Political System: State-of-Play Two Years into the New Institutional Cycle

2 Jul 2021

A homophobic law in the EU – What next?

28 Jun 2021

Next Generation EU: Time to Give the EU Fiscal Power

25 Jun 2021

The OECD, EU and United States at the Crucible of Global Taxation

17 Jun 2021

A Federal European Public Prosecution Authority – From Vision to Reality?

16 Jun 2021

EU-Swiss Relations – Moving in on their Tipping Point

10 Jun 2021

Saving the BVerfG from itself: the Commission infringement proceedings against Germany and its significance

7 Jun 2021

The Weiss/PSPP story: Being disproportional with proportionality?

2 Jun 2021

Coordinated economic sanctions against Belarus? EU foreign policy in action against the Lukashenka regime

1 Jun 2021

In the name of the separation of powers? The German Bundesverfassungsgericht and the end of the «PSPP-saga»

19 May 2021

Suing AstraZeneca

17 May 2021

Next Generation EU and the German Federal Constitutional Court – The decision on preliminary injunctions of 15 April 2021

5 May 2021

“Customizing” La Quadrature du Net: The French Council of State, National Security and Data Retention

27 Apr 2021

Green Light from Karlsruhe: Obstacles to Next Generation EU Removed

21 Apr 2021

Giving Substance to “An Economy that Works for the People”

20 Apr 2021

The New EU Fiscal Policy

13 Apr 2021

Border Carbon Adjustments – The EU Parliament Resolution

7 Apr 2021

Bulgaria’s 4 April Parliamentary Election: The End of Borissov’s Rule?

26 Mar 2021

What do the elections tell us about Dutch EU policy?

25 Mar 2021

Conferencing about the Future of Europe

15 Mar 2021

Commission v. Spain and H. K. v. Prokuratuur: Taking the Plank out of EU’s Own Eye

10 Mar 2021

The Conference on the Future of Europe: Relaunching the EU after Brexit and Covid-19

9 Mar 2021

Italy Under Mario Draghi, Guarantor and Builder in Europe

22 Feb 2021

A New Chapter in the Rule of Law Crisis: From Creative Compliance to Overt Defiance

18 Feb 2021

From the Migration Crisis to the New Pact on Migration and Asylum: The Status Quo Problem

19 Jan 2021

Autonomous Eurozenship: Addressing the EU Citizenship Tourism Dilemma

15 Jan 2021

Migration and Differentiation in EU Law & Governance

15 Jan 2021

What about Belonging?: Analyzing the New Pact’s Impact on Migrant Social Attachments

14 Jan 2021

Solidarity in the Common Asylum System and the Control of Illegal Immigration: A Critique of the New EU Migration Pact

13 Jan 2021

Reforming the EU Asylum Policy: Unilateralism, ‘Coalitions of the Willing’, and the New Pact on Migration and Asylum

12 Jan 2021

After Brexit: UK citizens living in Europe

11 Jan 2021

Immigration, Free Movement and Brexit

18 Dec 2020

The Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act: Bridging the Gap between Law and Technology

15 Dec 2020

Post Pandemic Economic Governance: Online Multiplier Event at the ECB

1 Dec 2020

The “new” ESM: is More Differentiation the Price to be Paid for Enhanced Crisis Response?

19 Nov 2020

The Row Over the Budgetary Conditionality: What is at Stake?

19 Nov 2020

The MFF 2021-2027: a Compromise with Long-term Consequences

18 Nov 2020

The 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework Near the Finish Line

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12 Nov 2020

Country Report: Denmark

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30 Oct 2020

Country Report: Greece

21 Oct 2020

As One Awkward Partner Departs, Another Remains

7 Oct 2020

Finally: The CJEU defends academic freedom

30 Sep 2020

Covid as a Catalyst for a Political Union?

29 Sep 2020

Can Public Health Concerns Influence Migrant Workers’ Conditions?

28 Sep 2020

COVID-19 and Market Expectations: Evidence from Option-implied Densities

25 Sep 2020

Covid 19, the European Central Bank and the Euro-Zone

24 Sep 2020

The Forgotten Values: How Europe’s Bet on the Rule of Law Backfired

23 Sep 2020

The Euro-Zone Crisis and the Underground Economy: The Socio-Economic Roots of the Italian Economic Decline

22 Sep 2020

The Rule of Law After the State of the Union

17 Sep 2020

Ursula Von der Leyen’s First State of the Union

17 Sep 2020

The State of the Union 2020

10 Sep 2020

EU-Turkey Refugee Deal: Just the numbers matter?

31 Jul 2020

Ireland’s Eurogroup Triumph

22 Jul 2020

The July 21 Big Deal: Towards an Ever Closer Union

10 Jul 2020

A New Eurogroup President – Does it Matter?

22 Jun 2020

Country Report: Slovenia

11 Jun 2020

A Hamiltonian Moment?

7 Jun 2020

Recovery Fund: Reasons to be Cheerful

1 Jun 2020

Next Generation EU is a Step Towards Fiscal Union

29 May 2020

Financing the European Recovery: What do the New Developments Mean?

21 May 2020

Unraveling the European Legal Order? One Step at a Time

21 May 2020

The Franco-German “Recovery Fund”: Problems and Opportunities

19 May 2020

Protecting the Formal Rule of Law in the EU’s Asylum Policy: The CJEU’s Judgment in C-757/17 (The Asylum Relocation Mechanism)

13 May 2020

A Post Covid-19 EU Needs to Rethink its Model of Economic Integration or it May Become Increasingly Unstable

11 May 2020

Will the BVerfG judgement have more consequences outside the Eurozone than inside?

11 May 2020

Europe at 70: New Challenges Ahead

8 May 2020

The ‘Quantative Easing’ saga: the Backlash of the German Federal Constitutional Court

7 May 2020

Country Report: Estonia

7 May 2020

The Commission Roadmap on Covid-19: is the EU Finding the Route or Continuing to Lose the Way?

6 May 2020

The German Constitutional Court and the ECJ : The Judgement on the ECB’s Public Sector Purchase Program

5 May 2020

Eurozone auf Wiedersehen?

5 May 2020

Beyond the Pandemic: More Integrated EU-wide Public Debt Instruments?

1 May 2020

Country Report: Hungary

30 Apr 2020

Covid-19: New crisis, New Existential Challenge for the EU?

23 Apr 2020

Country Report: Finland

22 Apr 2020

Brexit will reshape the European FinTech industry…or maybe not

2 Apr 2020

Europe in the Time of Covid-19

31 Mar 2020

Coronabonds and the Future of the European Central Bank

26 Mar 2020

A Blend of Ambition and Compromise: The Commission’s Proposal for an EU Climate Law

19 Mar 2020

Behind the Scenes of Brexit: An Inside Look on the Work of UK Supreme Court

13 Mar 2020

The facade-stability of the EU-Turkey agreement

9 Mar 2020

A “Quick-Fix” Migration Solution Ends in Tragedy at the Greek-Turkish Border

6 Mar 2020

Turkey’s Refugee Crisis?

24 Feb 2020

Does Free Movement of People Still Follow its Original Logic?

18 Feb 2020

The Euro-Crisis and the Swiss Franc/ Euro Exchange Rate

5 Feb 2020

Introducing the Post Brexit Europe Podcast

22 Jan 2020

The Rule of Law in the EU: The January 2020 Edition

HELLE KRUNKE AND BJÖRG THORARENSEN (EDS.): THE NORDIC CONSTITUTIONS. A COMPARATIVE AND CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS, HART STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW, HART PUBLISHING, 2018.

14 Jan 2020

Comparing the Nordic Constitutions: Shared Values, Functional Diversity

Presidents Michel and von der Leyen during the debate on the conclusions of the 12-13 December European Council summit

19 Dec 2019

Why a step backwards for Eurozone reform could be a step forwards for differentiated integration in the EU

In response to hundreds of refugees and other migrants taking to the road with the aim of walking to Austria, Hungarian Red Cross immediately activited its response teams. The Red Cross has been providing food, water, blankets, clothes and first aid to those in need along the main highway from Budapest to Austria. Over 140,000 people have applied for asylum in Hungary already in 2015. In recent weeks, the number of people arriving in the country has increased dramatically, resulting in a major bottle neck and leaving hundreds sleeping rough at train stations each night. Photo: Stephen Ryan / IFRC

13 Dec 2019

The Three Villains and the Lifeblood of the European Union Project – Advocate General Sharpton’s Opinion in C-715/17 (the asylum relocation mechanism)

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6 Dec 2019

The Independence of Judges in Polish’s Courts: the CJEU Judgement in Commission v Poland (C-192/18)

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4 Dec 2019

Behaviour of the Far-Right in the Slovak Parliament: Constitutional Amendment as a PR Tool

2 Dec 2019

The new European Commission: five decisive years

1 Nov 2019

Event Report: Launch of the BRIDGE Network

29 Oct 2019

How Interconnected are Europe’s Crises? A Framework for Analysis

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