If you are a nerd of the EU’s budget, debt, or anything related to supranational borrowing – this is for you: an article discussing the new era of common EU borrowing, detailing both the legal and financial architecture. Preprint on my researchgate.

The New Era of Leveraging the EU's Fiscal Space for Common Borrowing - Moritz Rehm, 2026

To allow for large-scale common EU borrowing of over €1 trillion for NextGenerationEU, SURE, SAFE and assistance to Ukraine, the EU significantly adapted its le...

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My department at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social is advertising 3 Tenure-Track AP positions in Political Science and 2 Teaching positions. The department is nice, non-toxic, and in good financial shape (which is not a given these days, in the UK or elsewhere): warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Institutional foundations of financial statecraft: EU assistance to Ukraine and beyond, by Lukas Spielberger & Moritz Rehm

Institutional foundations of financial statecraft: EU assistance to Ukraine and beyond

The European Union’s (EU) role as the largest provider of financial support to the Ukrainian government since Russia’s full-scale invasion challenges widely held conceptions about its lack of finan...

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Europe’s top central banker is expected to exit before April 2027 to give Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz the chance to pick her successor. ft.trib.al/RgAMpRb

Just published in @ripejournal.bsky.social : "Institutional foundations of financial statecraft: EU assistance to Ukraine and beyond" by Lukas Spielberger and I! Is the EU on its way to becoming an autonomous actor capable of exercising financial statecraft ... ? doi.org/10.1080/0969...

Institutional foundations of financial statecraft: EU assistance to Ukraine and beyond

The European Union’s (EU) role as the largest provider of financial support to the Ukrainian government since Russia’s full-scale invasion challenges widely held conceptions about its lack of finan...

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Why does the EU keep rebranding financial integration? From CMU to the new Savings & Investments Union, the policy stays largely the same but the narrative shifts to chase support. A new JCMS 'Ideas on Europe' blog unpacks why. Read it here: jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2026/01/15/f... #TheEu #Blog #JCMS

From Capital Markets Union to Savings and Investments Union: Why the EU keeps changing the story on financial integration

By David Howarth (University of Luxembourg) and Lucia Quaglia (University of Bologna) Financial market integration has been a core objective of European inte

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„(…)college is not in the information transfer business; we are in the identity formation business.“

Kate McNamara@katemcnamara.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Well, this piece really stirred the pot, but I find it is more right than wrong about how to teach in the age of AI. Oral exams, in-class active learning & lots of structured interactions with students as they develop their papers seems to help, but I have the luxury of only teaching seminars...

Ever more Europeans feel emotionally attached to the EU, consider it as democratically legitimate as well as producing positive outcomes. doi.org/10.1093/ijpo...

Rising Attachment to the European Union (2006–2023). The Impact of Input and Output Legitimacy

Abstract. It is commonly assumed—and feared—that European institution building proceeds faster than European identity development can follow. This would le

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New 🚨The European Commission plans to propose a new joint debt instrument to tap capital markets in times of crisis, as part of the upcoming EU budget. Read it in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/2f12...

Brussels to seek more joint debt in EU budget plan

European Commission to propose mechanism to issue common bonds to fund member states in emergencies

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The #EU is becoming a sovereign-style borrower. Commission @ec.europa.eu borrowing will reach 1 trillion EUR by 2027. For the time after #NGEU, #SURE, and #SAFE, the Commission plans to propose a permanent debt instrument for crisis management, reports Paola Tamma @paolatamma.bsky.social

In our recent article in @jei-publication.bsky.social David Howarth and I analyse the ESM's role as backstop to the SRF. Our finding illustrates that the inclusion of the permanence of legal framework clause in the ESM's treaty reform has the potential to undermine QMV in banking union.