@lucasschramm91.bsky.social
Political scientist interested in European integration and EU politics. Postdoc at LMU, Ph.D. from EUI, M.A. from College of Europe
Excited to have started the new academic year at the #College of Europe in Bruges - my Alma Mater - for the first time as visiting professor.
I am co-teaching a course on the #EuropeanCouncil, using as a basis our forthcoming book. Happy to meet old and news friends!
Very excited about this moment! I am about to submit our #bookmanuscript on the #EuropeanCouncil to the publisher. Off now to the competent hands of @bloomsburypol.bsky.social
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My argument and findings have implications for the current debates about an EU competitiveness plan and joint funding, notably for security and defence
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I probe the plausibility of this argument by analyzing two recent crises - the Covid-19 pandemic and the energy emergency - and document typical patterns of Germany‘s EU fiscal politics
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- a general national tendency to act as status quo power that is largely satisfied with the current supranational setting
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- appeals by other EU countries and the felt need to promote supranational polity stability, especially during crises
New article out in German Politics and Society!
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
I develop a theoretical argument and mechanism about Germany‘s approach towards EU fiscal politics, based on two countervailing forces:
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Publication Alert 📝
New article with @lucasschramm91.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social
It contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of differentiation in the EU. Case studies from EMU & Schengen show how issue-specific incentives lead to atypical integration patterns.
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We offer a more nuanced understanding of differentiated integration in the European Union, showing that de facto differentiation has been more integrative in the Eurozone whilst more disintegrative in the Schengen area than what de jure differentiated integration suggests
Very happy to see this article with #AlexSchilin out open access in #WestEuropeanPolitics
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- Co-author of a paper on norm contestation inside the European Council (Saturday 1:30pm)
Looking forward to meeting old and new friends in Philadelphia!
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- Chairing a panel on European integration in the geopolitical age (Friday 3:45pm)
- Co-author of a paper on the relations between the European Council and the European Parliament (Saturday 8:30am)
Excited to attend the conference of the European Union Studies Association (#EUSA) later this week
From Thursday to Saturday, I will be involved in four panels:
- Presenting a paper on how the China shock affects EU policymaking (Thursday 8.30am local time)
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Pünktlich zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum des Europäischen Rats ist unser aktualisierter Überblick über das Wirken dieser Schlüsselinstitution der Europäischen Union erschienen.
Wie immer frei verfügbar im „Taschenbuch Europa von A bis Z“ auf Springer Online:
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
Happy to spend some time at #Princeton University in spring!
I will work on two papers: one on the 50th anniversary of the European Council, another on EU trade policy (couldn’t be more timely these days).
Let me know if you are around and also staying a bit longer in the U.S. after #EUSA.
🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.10
@lucasschramm91.bsky.social argues that the European Council must reconcile the dual challenges of widening and deepening.
↔️ Despite formidable obstacles, enlargement could spur internal reforms and innovations.
@ecprsgeu.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/3FxjdXk
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The data and findings are based on a research article that was recently published in the Journal of European Integration
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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With enlargement back on the EU’s agenda, I assess the critical role played by the European Council in the accession procedure.
I scrutinise the four (successful) EU enlargement rounds to date, showing that geopolitical motives have always loomed large in European Council deliberations.
Very happy to see this blog post just being published in the ECPR The Loop series ECPR Standing Group on the European Union (SGEU)
theloop.ecpr.eu/eu-enlargeme...
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The quotes are taken from the 1975 Dublin summit. More documents on this consequential summit can be found here:
www.cvce.eu/en/education...
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- that of an impasse-breaker, limiting the practice in the Council (of ministers) to take decisions by “unanimous consent“
- that of a constitutional architect, establishing a “European Regional Development Fund“ and agreeing first steps towards a European Monetary Union
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- that of a crisis manager, dealing with the “problems Europe is facing today“
- that of an external voice, enabling the Community to play a leading role in “world affairs“
- that of a “provisional government“ (Jean Monnet), defining matters of “common concern“ and a “unified position“
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Over the following decades, this institution played an ever-more important role for the emerging EU polity. But already at Dublin and during its formative years, EUCO assumed FIVE key functions that it would consolidate and deepen later on:
This week marks an important one in the history of European integration. Exactly 50 years ago, on 10 and 11 March 1975, the European Council held its first meeting and adopted its first conclusions:
www.consilium.europa.eu/media/20440/...
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Importantly, this did not happen - in most member states - because French policy ideas were prevailing. Rather, external pressures are pushing the EU towards greater efforts for more sovereignty, independence and (!) protectionism.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Salih I. Bora and I made similar arguments in our French Politics article more than two years ago, well before Trump 2. We show why and how the EU has adopted key French positions in defense, trade, industrial and fiscal policy.
“Europe sounds increasingly French,“ argues The Economist this week. With the Trump administration withdrawing its military support and imposing tariffs, the European Union woke up in a world without its most important ally.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
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In this article, I trace how the “energy trilemma“ - securing, at the same time, 1) stable and secure supply, 2) competitive prices for businesses and households, 3) sustainable production and consumption - has played out over 50 years of European energy integration.
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Why has it been, historically, so difficult to establish a common European energy policy? After all, matters of energy (coal, steel and nuclear) were at the heart of European integration post World War II and of the first European Communities.
New publication out in Contemporary European Politics (open access) 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Link to the book:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
