European Studies used to be dominated by legal and political science approaches which hailed the progress of European integration and its reliance on law. The recent set of crises which struck the EU have highlighted fundamental problems in the ways and means by which European integration...

The Great Recession renewed calls for a return of state activism in support of the European economy. The widespread nationalization of ailing companies and the growing activism of national development banks led many to celebrate the reappearance of industrial policy. By reviewing the evolution...

The Euro Plus Pact was approved by 23 EU countries in March 2011. The Pact stipulates a range of quantitative targets meant to strengthen competitiveness and convergence with the ultimate aim of preventing unsustainable financial imbalances from accumulating. This paper uses Granger causality...

Dieser Beitrag stellt die Frage, inwieweit das Weißbuch der EU-Kommission zur Zukunft der Europäischen Union erfolgversprechende Szenarien für eine künftige Ausgestaltung der europäischen Integration skizziert. Es wird gezeigt, dass die EU-Kommission bei dieser Aufgabe an einem Kern-Problem...