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Transparency in the early stages of the EU decision-making process. Secrecy at the cost of democratic participation, or transparency at the cost of efficiency? Comments on T-540/15 De Capitani and C-57/16P ClientEarth

April 24, 2019

By Jasmin Hiry Doctoral candidate, University of Luxembourg   With the Treaty of Amsterdam, the right of access to documents was formally embedded into primary law. In light of the huge amount of judgments rendered by the Court since then, this does not seem to be an easy right to protect. Since the beginning, the… » read more

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Invitation to the conference “The Benelux, regional groupings and the dynamics of European integration: contemporary and historical perspectives”, Luxembourg, 8-9 April 2019

March 22, 2019

We are pleased to invite you to the conference ‘The Benelux, Regional Groupings and the Dynamics of European Integration’, co-organised by the RSI and C2DH, to he held on the University of Luxembourg’s Belval Campus on 8-9 April. To attend the conference, please register at the conference site [link]. Abstract Regional (sub-)groupings have played a… » read more

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Edited volume by Lennaert van Heumen and Mechthild Roos: The Informal Construction of Europe (Contemporary European Studies Series, Routledge (with UACES), 2019)

March 20, 2019

by Mechthild Roos Muddled Brexit negotiations, disputed international trade relations, nationalist claims of a European top-level conspiracy: today’s European Union (EU) faces internal and external turmoil. To overcome the manifold issues challenging the EU’s functioning and self-understanding, European actors frequently have to resort to informal strategies of problem-solving. The reason is that formal procedures and… » read more

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Utilization of Scenarios in European Electricity Policy: The Ten-Year Network Development Plan

December 18, 2018

by Alexander Scheibe, PhD student in the Institute of Political Science, University of Luxembourg   This blog is a summary of a working paper written while I was a visiting fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford, September to November 2018. The full paper is available for download here.   The… » read more

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Call for papers. Conference “Analysing the European Investment Bank: Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the past, present and future of the world’s biggest lender”, 10-11 July 2019, University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus (Esch-sur-Alzette)

November 12, 2018

Aims of the conference After World War II, international financial institutions were established to facilitate and regulate access to global capital markets and promote reconstruction and economic growth (Clifton et al. 2014). At the European level, in 1958 the European Investment Bank (EIB) was established by the Treaty of Rome to act as the financial… » read more

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Workshop “Analysing the role of the European Court of Auditors in EU Policy Making: A (self)critical appraisal”, 22 November 2018, Belval Campus (Esch-sur-Alzette)

November 8, 2018

Abstract This special three hour special session involves a presentation and critical discussion of the role of the Court of Auditors as one of the main monitoring bodies of the European Union through its financial and performance audits of EU policies. This overview is followed by a presentation and critical discussion of the Court of… » read more

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Workshop “Economic and Monetary Union at Twenty”, 15-17 November 2018, Leiden University

October 31, 2018

Abstract Monetary policy-making is one of the most far-reaching areas of European integration and Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) stands as one of the European Union’s (EU) flagship integration achievements. Set up in 1999, with the large majority of EU member states, EMU involved asymmetric levels of integration with a less-centralised form of ‘economic integration’… » read more

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The Difficult Construction of a European Deposit Insurance Scheme: A step too far in Banking Union?

October 25, 2018

by Pr. David Howarth and Pr. Lucia Quaglia This article is one of five in a recent special issue of the Journal of Economic Policy Reform on ‘Reforming Banking Union’ (volume 21, number 3) edited by professors David Howarth (Luxembourg) and Joachim Schild (Trier). This special issue includes papers by a number of leading economists… » read more

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Summary Report of the seminar on “Brexit and Finance” with Dr. Scott James and Pr. David Howarth, University of Luxembourg, 12 October 2018

October 15, 2018

On 12 October 2018, the Robert Schuman Institute of the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research organized a seminar on the policy developments concerning the Single Market in financial services in the context of Brexit. Here is the summary report. Speakers Dr Scott James, Department of Political Economy, King’s College London… » read more

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Does the end justify the means?

June 27, 2018

By Pierre-Emmanuel Pignarre Does the end justify the means? Reflections on the Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses Judgment (C-64/16) In a remarkable ruling of 28 February 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union gave a general definition of the concept of ‘judicial independence’ which is surprising for the legal basis on which it… » read more

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The Robert Schuman Initiative for European Affairs at the University of Luxembourg (RSIEA), inaugurated in April 2016, focuses on the interdisciplinary study of European affairs and the European Union.

RSIEA's objective is to encourage creative thinking – asking questions, collecting ideas and identifying issues, as well as developing proposals for further research and elaborating solutions to pressing societal problems.

Moreover, its members will rely on the expertise and competences of high-level experts for interdisciplinary and international synergies for such research and development.  The RSIEA looks at issues like economic integration and its national and international dimensions, as well as constitutional and institutional evolution within the EU.

 

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