This year the EU has commissioned two reports by former Italian prime ministers, Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi, to set out policies to raise Europe’s anaemic growth rate. The long shadow of the financial and euro crises, Covid-19...

Amidst geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions, the EU needs to shape a new European security order. Beyond national efforts to increase the European contribution to NATO, the EU seeks to enhance economic security, move forward with...

Cohesion Policy seems to be on the backfoot: Given a raft of new policy priorities and tightening fiscal room to maneuver, a fundamental discussion on the relevance and future direction of Cohesion Policy is underway. In this...

In recent years, Europeans have had a very visible crisis manager in Ursula von der Leyen. In this study, Catherine De Vries, Simon Hix and Isabell Hoffmann inquire whether this could be the beginning of a deeper democratic bond...

The debate about the future of the EU and the necessary reforms (including the question of whether changes to the EU Treaties are necessary, appropriate, and realistic) has been ongoing for some time—publicly, within EU...