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A game of tariffs: is there demand for tariffs in Europe? In April 2025, the United States introduced sweeping tariffs on imports from the European Union and the United Kingdom, raising transatlantic tensions and prompting debate over Europe’s response. T...

Tariffs might be the word of 2025.

Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?

@grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no
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War as external cause: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the theorising of European integration and EU politics, and the EU’s arduous formation in foreign and security policy Russia’s war in Ukraine from February 2022 has had massive effects on Europe’s Union and its member states, prompting changes in policy, new policies, discussions of options and potential future tr...

Just out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social online first..Hurry up free copies expiring in 50..49..48..47 ..😁
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Special thanks to @lucasschramm91.bsky.social and @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social guest editors of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age

📰 Our October issue is out and in your inbox

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Takeaway from this article (now with page numbers!): men support political gender quota/ parity laws less than women (whether legal quotas exist in their country or not), but people *do not* believe women elected in a system with quotas are less qualified / support them less. Because…: they aren’t!

🧠 Are democracies trapped by their own complexity—or strengthened by it? New study from the SUPA team in @jeppjournal.bsky.social shows that openness builds resilience, not overload.
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Appreciate the endorsement of this article from @jeppjournal.bsky.social. If you would be interested in a novel and long-missing approach of how adopted domestic policy influences the design of other policies, do take a look. Further work will also be presented at the COPPR conference, Bern, in Jan!

⚓ @thinderberg.bsky.social & Ian Bailey: "The anchoring policy perspective on policy change: mechanisms, applications and analytical challenges" 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌿 Sarah Gomm, @robert-a-huber.bsky.social, Dennis Kolcava, @ekeithsmith.bsky.social & Thomas Bernauer: "Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking" 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🙅♂️ Martin Moland: "Opting out of an EU identity? The effects of differentiated integration on European identity" 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚫 @monikameislova.bsky.social & Benjamin Martill: "Getting Brexit done? The politics of issue-eclipsing pledges" 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏛️ @lolaavril.bsky.social "& @emiliakorkeaaho.bsky.social Administration as usual? Revolving doors and the quiet regulation of political ethics" 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💰 @danjdevine.bsky.social: "Political trust and redistribution preferences" 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⚖️ @hildecoffe.bsky.social, @sparshasaha.bsky.social , and @anacweeks.bsky.social : "Quotas or parity? How the framing of positive action measures impacts public support and backlash" 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏳️🌈 @grahn.bsky.social "From the closet to spotlight: the rising tide of lesbian, gay and bisexual political candidacies" 🖇️https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2024.2416949

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@iskanderdebruycker.bsky.social "Access for all? Socio-demographic biases and interest group access to the European Parliament" 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎯 @felixlehmann.bsky.social "Why accommodate? How niche pressure and intra-party divisions shape mainstream party strategies" 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Under what conditions does the European Parliament challenge international agreements?

@marinebardou.bsky.social and @tomdelreux.bsky.social show that contestation can arise even without politicisation 👇

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🧩Democracy is complex, but maybe that’s an asset

🌍🪴@alexalenz.bsky.social, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Markus Hinterleitner, @cknill.bsky.social & Yves Steinebach show that democracies handle climate-policy complexity more smoothly than less democratic regimes 👇

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Publishing in JEPP: Meet the Editors at the EUI Join the editors of the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) for a discussion on submissions, peer review, and special issues.

🗓️ Meet the Editors at the @eui-eu.bsky.social in January 2026

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Why the EU is a geopolitical power: wartime enlargement, integration, and reform The European Union is undergoing strategic redefinition through wartime conditions and shifting global orders, seeking to position itself as a geopolitical power. Enlargement and deeper integration...

The EU is a geopolitical actor.

In a new article, just published in the @jeppjournal.bsky.social, I introduce the SI 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮.

I argue for a framework of 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: the EU’s way of wielding power.

👉 Read here: bit.ly/4mvKnh6

When blame governments other governments in crises?

🎤 @christianschw.bsky.social, @sarahdingler.bsky.social, @lorehayek.at & @msenn.bsky.social analyse Covid-19 press conferences

👉 They identifiy crisis severity, geography, and value proximity as key drivers

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Hi bsky people - if you care about how the EU seeks to fund all things "social-ecological transformation", which institutional architecture has emerged out of it, and why it is both contested and an unrealized promise: please have a look at our special issue on the politics of sustainable finance 👇

Partisan affect and political tolerance in the context of shifting norms: the effect of coalition signals towards the radical right Mainstream political actors in many countries face the challenging decision of how to engage with radical-right parties. While some systematically exclude them from power, others accept them as coa...

🤝 @jochemvanagt.bsky.social, Katrin Praprotnik, @luanarusso.bsky.social, and @markuswagner.bsky.social show that when the mainstream right signals openness to govern with the far right, it eases tensions on the right but amplifies antipathy on the left 👇

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🔎 Nicole Scicluna examines the framing of "enlargement" in von der Leyen's speeches and in manifestos of European parties

💡She finds that enlargement is still mostly framed in terms of technical procedures

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🛶 The EU feels compelled to venture into unfamiliar waters of geopolitics - but how?

🗺️ @vanghel.bsky.social synthesises the contributions to JEPP's Special Issue on EU Integration, Reform and Enlargement

🔑 She argues that “relational geopolitics” is key

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Building a Transnational Developmental State in Europe: Lessons from the Big Bang enlargement for the next integration round Why should the EU care about the developmental externalities of enlargement? To answer this question, we bridge the enlargement literature, which studies rule transfer prior to accession, and the p...

🌍 Discover the “Transnational Developmental State” 👇

💡 Though short-lived after Eastern enlargement, it offers key insights for the EU’s next rounds of integration, argue Bruszt Laszlo (@weareceu.bsky.social ) and Julia Langbein (@zois.bsky.social)

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Devolving powers on paper is only half the story — the real challenge is implementation. In this post, I discuss my recent @jeppjournal.bsky.social article with @jmfernandes86.bsky.social on when decentralization actually works in practice. Thanks @ccc-research.bsky.social y.social for the invite!

Government polling in times of crises: when capacity meets incentives How do governments mobilise public opinion in times of crises? While recent research examines the factors that determine the intensity of government polling at different points in the electoral cyc...

How do governments mobilise public opinion in times of uncertainty? Do they gauche public opinion systematically across policy domains or unevenly depending on the issue ?🧵

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