A rule of law agenda for 2030
The EU’s rule of law credentials over the past few years have revealed an alarming deficit that threatens the very foundations of European integration. To a casual observer, some of these shortcomings may come as a surprise – after all, the need to safeguard the rule of law has become a recurring theme in the […]
Managed Expectations
The EU institutions (European Commission, European Parliament and Council) have diverging opinions on the aims and outcomes of the Conference on the Future of Europe. The Council has been the EU institution with the most reservations about the format and aim of the exercise. This scepticism, however, is the lowest common denominator of a more […]
The effect of Covid on EU democracies
To better understand how the pandemic has so far affected Europe’s democracies, the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN) has analysed 19 succinct national perspectives. We asked our EPIN partners: what are the effects of different crisis rules or procedures on the democratic character of national governance? This exercise has shown that while in some member […]