Projects
The prospective relations between the EU and its East European neighbours: a legal analysis of flexible integration models Ghent University
The project researches how and to what extent the EU’s East European neighbours can implement parts of the acquis communautaire, taking into account their specific legal, political and economic contexts. The research methodology is based upon a comparative analysis of flexible integration models.
Politics of interest representation and agenda-setting in multi-level political systems. University of Antwerp
Reconstructing the changing financial geography of the European Union (1985-2007) through narratives, numbers, and networks of European financial elites. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Towards the Emergence of Urban Asylum Regimes: Policies, Approaches and Consequences of the Reception of Refugees in European and US American Cities Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Who or what do Members of the European Parliament (MEP) represent? Explaining the variation in foci of representation amongst MEPs in their legislative behaviour. University of Antwerp
Policy integration: decarbonisation and security of supply in the European Union's external energy policy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Exploring Conditions for Politicization: A Comparative Analysis of European Union Trade Agreement Negotiations. University of Antwerp
The EU’s Recovery Plan and the Constitutional System of the European Union – Between Rupture and Continuity KU Leuven
The EU’s Recovery Plan is the cornerstone of the European economic response to the COVID-19 crisis. By its size, its unprecedented features, and the new level of European solidarity it embodies, it is a historical initiative, which will lastingly influence the trajectory of European integration. The Plan also sets in motion or exacerbates a certain number of constitutional evolutions which have the potential to reshape the EU polity, and its ...
From the Third to the Second World? Western European Social Movements and NGOs towards the Opening of the East, 1988-1997 KU Leuven
The collapse of state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War not only dramatically transformed post-communist Europe, these events also affected societies which had been at the Western side of the Iron Curtain, and reshaped Europe as a whole. This project seeks to assess the impact of 1989 and the ‘opening of the East’ on transnational civil society in Western Europe by examining East-West contacts from the ...