The last decade has been a decennium horribile for the EU. Since 2008, the European Union has faced a series of unprecedented shocks: the Great Recession, the sovereign debt crisis and its dramatic social consequences, security threats linked to terrorism and conflicts in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa), the refugee crisis and, eventually, Brexit. Supranational decision making was severely tested. Against all odds, however, the destructive spiral stopped short of driving the Union into self-destruction: a circumstance that still calls for an explanation. Only a thorough retrospective analysis of the political crisis can cast light on the nature of this unexpected resilience.
SOLID is the result of the synergies which brought together prof. Maurizio Ferrera, Professor of Political Science at Università degli Studi di Milano, Hanspeter Kriesi, Professor of Political Science at the European University Institute and Prof. Waltraud Schelkle, formerly Professor in Political Economy at the London School of Economics and currently Joint Chair for European Public Policy at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute.
new publications
Schelkle, Waltraud
The emerging system of re-insurance in the EU: beyond negative and positive integration – Journal of European Public Policy
26/05/2025
Truchlewski, Zbigniew ;
Oana, Ioana Elena ;
Moise, Alexandru D. ;
Kriesi, Hanspeter
Pandemic Polity-Building, How Covid-19 Shaped the European Union – Oxford University Press
19/05/2025
Oana, Ioana Elena ;
Moise, Alexandru D. ;
Truchlewski, Zbigniew
Demand for EU Polity Building in the Shadow of the Russian Threat – Cambridge University Press
15/03/2025
Kyriazi, Anna
Framing the EU polity: how Commission presidents address crises and shape the Union – Journal of European Integration
15/03/2025
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