Read more about it here: a new article for the CERiM Online Paper Series is out!

Annalisa Volpato writes about the judicial review of the acts of EU agencies, while Paul Dermine does an aftermath of the Commission’s December Package, also known as the ‘Saint Nicholas’ package.

More papers will be published soon, so keep posted!

On the 6-7 June 2019 – 10 years later – this conference addressed these issues by asking in how far the EaP (in its current form) has achieved a strengthening of relations between the EU and its eastern neighbours, and invited to reflect on what conceptual and policy tools are required in the future to define the EU’s relations with the six EaP countries. A special emphasis was placed on how (or whether?) to reconcile seemingly conflicting policy paradigms, such as the promotion of ‘values’, such as democracy, human rights and civil society versus ‘pragmatic’ policy based on ensuring stability, tensions between normative/utilitarian principles and geopolitical and geo-economic interests.  

Giselle Bosse and Andrea Ott gathered scholars from all over Europe in a two-days workshop to provide a holistic and interdisciplinary analysis of the EaP. Panels focused on (i) the existing legal and institutional framework(s), as well as financial instruments and their suitability for the challenges faced by the EU in the future; (ii) the policy dimensions of the EaP, (iii) concrete bilateral relations and perspectives from the EaP countries and (iv) critical reflections on security and geopolitics, including policy recommendations.

The book analyses nearly 100 original interviews with Members of the European Parliament from across the European Union who were active between 1979 and 2019. The interviews capture the memories of the MEPs about their own roles and their assessment of what the parliament achieved in developing a European parliamentary democracy in the forty years following the first direct elections.

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The network, coordinated by Maastricht, seeks to promote new research and teaching on contemporary developments of the single market in the areas of defense, the digital market, finance and energy. It does so through the creation of new courses at the involved universities, the publication of policy papers and special training through the participating think tanks, and joint publications in academic journals. These deliverables are developed over a series of yearly conferences and workshops, international exchanges, and focused research.

Sinkevičius’ nomination has already been approved by the government and President Gitanas Nauseda, and is yet to be endorsed by the European Parliament.

The 28-year-old has risen from completing a traineeship at the Lithuanian mission in the US, to becoming the Economy and Innovation Minister, and scoring the EU Commission endorsement in just six years.

LRT English has compiled Sinkevičius’s key accomplishments in his career that began 10 years ago when he walked out of the door of Salomėja Neris High School in Vilnius.

CERiM Director Andrea Ott obtained a Jean Monnet Project (60.000€) entitled ‘Innovating the European Union and transforming Europe’. Aneta Spendzharova, Anna Herranz Surrales and Johan Adriaensen were successful in securing €300.000 of EU funding to establish a new Jean Monnet Research Network. The Network aims to revitalise the study of EU Single Market Integration in a turbulent age

It brings together a diverse group of academic partners (Universities of Frankfurt, Bristol, Tartu and Kyiv) with two think tanks (IAI-Rome & CEPS- Brussels). The network, coordinated by Maastricht, seeks to promote new research and teaching on contemporary developments of the single market in the areas of defense, the digital market, finance and energy.