🎆 The special issue on "European Integration in the Geopolitical Age" is out! Discover all articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3... Guest editors: @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social

How does the Franco-German relationship shape the future of Europe? 🇪🇺 In their latest article, Ulrich Krotz & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social analyze how this bilateral partnership acts as the "engine" stabilizing European politics. A must-read on regional order: 📥 t.ly/iBLTP @bjpir.bsky.social

Bilateralism in multilateralism: France-Germany in Europe and the interlinking of institutional forms in Regional Order and World Politics - Ulrich Krotz, Lucas Schramm, 2026

Regional integration scholars have long stressed the role and importance of bilateral and other minilateral relations between states for multilateral politics i...

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Our new book on the #EuropeanCouncil has a cover 😍 With 16 new or revised chapters, it introduces the emergence, foundations, activities, and shortcomings of this pivotal institution The book will become available in October, you can already pre-order it here 👇 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/european-...

The #EuropeanCouncil earlier this month ended with Orbán blocking the EU‘s €90bn package for Ukraine. So good, so normal (unfortunately). But something is different with this latest #EUCO blockage, I argue in this new piece for Verfassungsblog verfassungsblog.de/a-deal-is-a-... Three takeaways:

A Deal Is a Deal

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Ever wondered how the #EuropeanUnion would look like without the #EuropeanCouncil? In this piece for @foederalist.eu, I do some counterfactual analysis: how EU policymaking and interinstitutional relations might work without #EUCO www.foederalist.eu/2026/03/chef...

“Chefsache” no more: What the European Union would look like without the European Council

Ein Blog über die Demokratie in Europa

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📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Bilateralism in multilateralism: France-Germany in Europe and the interlinking of institutional forms in Regional Order and World Politics' by Ulrich Krotz & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/SFPCtBZ @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🚨 New publication out in #BJPIR (British Journal of Politics and International Relations) How do bilateral and other minilateral relations between a small group of countries, on the one hand, and multilateral politics in a regional or global organization, on the other, relate to each other? (1/3)

📰 Based on a 67-year arc of reporting by British magazine #TheEconomist, @lucasschramm91.bsky.social of @ecprsgeu.bsky.social analyses the #EuropeanCouncil. 🏛️ He shows how that coverage explains why the institution was created + why its dominance is both useful + unsettling. 👉 bit.ly/4kAIGzB

What The Economist magazine's coverage reveals about the European Council

Based on a 67-year arc of reporting by British magazine The Economist, Lucas Schramm analyses the European Council, a key institution of the European Union. He shows how that coverage explains why the...

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The European Council #EUCO today comes together for an informal summit on EU competitiveness. Ever wondered how this institution has evolved since its creation in 1975 and how informed observers have assessed its role? (1/4)

❇️ FirstView - 🔍 Research @lucasschramm91.bsky.social analyses the European Council as a key actor in the EU’s multi-level and multi-institutional system of governance. 👉 buff.ly/SuulDLL

The European Council turns 50: Studying and analyzing a key institution of the European Union

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🚨 new publication alert The European Union increasingly faces external pressures. Whilst external pressures always mattered for European integration and EU studies, this article holds that they are more consequential today than in the past.

How can and should we study an important yet largely inaccessible institution like the #EuropeanCouncil? In a new article, published in #EuropeanPoliticalSciene, I present key data, paradoxes and research avenues 50 years after its creation. The article is available open access 👇 h7.cl/1n6zx

#OpenAccess from @epsjournal.bsky.social - The European Council turns 50: Studying and analyzing a key institution of the European Union - https://cup.org/3LI9FvV - @lucasschramm91.bsky.social #FirstView

This article marks the completion of our #JEPP special issue on the geopolitics of European integration 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The article introduces our distinct outside-in perspective, theorising how external geopolitical pressures affect EU internal policymaking dynamics 🇪🇺

Could Viktor Orbán derail upcoming EU discussions on financing Ukraine, future enlargement and the next EU budget? ✍ @mkleine.bsky.social & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

When informal norms fail – how EU leaders lost their patience with Viktor Orbán - EUROPP

Will Viktor Orbán derail future EU talks? New research shows the European Council stops obstruction only when the domestic political costs become too high.

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🇪🇺 In their new research, @mkleine.bsky.social and @lucasschramm91.bsky.social analyse decision-making and norm enforcement in the European Council, the leaders' club and one of the most important - yet vulnerable - EU institutions. Discover it below 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

Taming of the shrews? The (non-)enforcement of informal norms in the European Council

The European Council is arguably one of the European Union’s (EU) most dynamic decision-making bodies. Both scholars and practitioners attribute its effectiveness to an informal norm of diffuse…

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🚨 Call for papers 👉 With Christian Lequesne (Sciences Po Paris), I am co-editing a special issue on EU Enlargement and Neighborhood Policies. We invite contributions looking at negotiation processes between EU institutions, Member State perspectives, and interactions with candidate countries.

New publication alert! Excited to share that my paper, co-authored with Mareike Kleine (LSE European Institute), is now online with JEPP www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Taming of the shrews? The (non-)enforcement of informal norms in the European Council

The European Council is arguably one of the European Union’s (EU) most dynamic decision-making bodies. Both scholars and practitioners attribute its effectiveness to an informal norm of diffuse rec...

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Just out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social online first..Hurry up free copies expiring in 50..49..48..47 ..😁 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/25KK9... Special thanks to @lucasschramm91.bsky.social and @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social guest editors of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age

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...

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Today marks the start of our new winter term at #LMU I will again be teaching one of my favourite seminars: “Franco-German relations in the European Union“ has an updated syllabus. This time we will be looking more closely into crisis politics and the domestic challenges in both countries.

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

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: 1/n

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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Online first: "Insider, outsider, or both? Explaining discrepancies within differentiation in the European Union" by @aschilin.bsky.social & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Very happy to see this article with #AlexSchilin out open access in #WestEuropeanPolitics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/2

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) 1/3

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

🧭 EU enlargement and the critical role played by the European Council

Rising geopolitical pressures, including an ongoing war in its immediate neighbourhood, have thrust EU enlargement back onto the agenda. Lucas Schramm contends that the European Council must reconcile...

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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... 1/3