Publications

Books

• Mathias Häußler & Mechthild Roos (eds.): Europäische Einigung zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit. Eine historische Bestandsaufnahme. Metropol Verlag (2024).
• Mechthild Roos & Daniel Schade (eds.): The EU under Strain? Current Crises Shaping European Union Politics. De Gruyter (2023).
• Mechthild Roos: The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy: Turning Talk into Power. Palgrave Macmillan (2021).
• Lennaert van Heumen & Mechthild Roos (eds.): The Informal Construction of Europe. Routledge (2019).

Journal articles

• Hannah Augustin & Mechthild Roos (2026): German Gender Regime in Transition? The Traffic Light Coalition’s Gender Policy, 2021–2025. German Politics, 1–26.
• Wolfram Kaiser, Jan-Henrik Meyer, Mechthild Roos, Koen van Zon & Liesbeth van de Grift (2026): The European Parliament and the Origins of New Policy Fields: A Creative Political Laboratory in the Long 1970s. Journal of Modern European History, [online first], DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/16118944261439736.
• Veit Winkler & Mechthild Roos (2025): Die Grundrente im Spiegel der Machtressourcentheorie. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 1(2025), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00638-2.
• Francis Jacobs & Mechthild Roos (2025): The European Parliament and the COVID-19 crisis. Journal of Legislative Studies, 31:2, 428-454.
• Mechthild Roos (2024): The EU as Active and Passive Political Determinant of Forced Migrants’ Health: Insights from the Case of Germany. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 49:5, 721–741.
• Mechthild Roos (2023): Regimewandel oder -beständigkeit in Krisenzeiten? Die politische Regulierung des Gesundheitszugangs Geflüchteter in Deutschland während der Migrations[management]krise. Sozialer Fortschritt, 72 (2023), 635-652.
• Mechthild Roos (2022): Inequality by design: The politics behind forced migrants’ access to healthcare. Medical Law Review, 30:4, 658-679.
• Mechthild Roos (2021): The European Parliament’s youth policy, 1952-1979. An attempt to create a collective memory of an integrated Europe. Politique européenne, 71:1, 28-52.
• Mechthild Roos (2021): A Parliament for the People? – The European Parliament’s Activism in the Area of Social Policy from the early 1970s to the Single European Act. Journal of European Integration History, 27:1, 37-56.
• Mechthild Roos (2021): The impact of national values on health-care provisions for asylum seekers and refugees in Germany and Sweden. DPCE Online, 45:4, 5208-5225.
• Mechthild Roos (2020): Becoming Europe’s Parliament: Europeanization through MEPs’ Supranational Activism, 1952-79. Journal of Common Market Studies, 58:6, 1413-1432.
• Mechthild Roos (2019): Zwischen Vertragsauslegung und Streben nach Macht: Informalität in der EU-Politik. Politikum, 5:3, 30-36.
• Mechthild Roos (2019): Intra-party group unity in the European Parliament prior to its first direct elections in 1979. Parliamentary Affairs, 72:2, 464-479.
• David Howarth & Mechthild Roos (2017): Pushing the Boundaries. New research on the Activism of EU Supranational Institutions. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 3:2, 1007-1024.
• Mechthild Roos (2017): Far Beyond the Treaties’ Clauses: The European Parliament’s Gain in Power, 1952-1979. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 3:2, 1055-1075.

Guest-edited special issue

• David Howarth & Mechthild Roos (eds.): Pushing the Boundaries. New research on the Activism of EU Supranational Institutions. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 3:2 (2017).

Contributions to edited volumes

• Mechthild Roos (2025): The Politics Behind Forced Migrants’ Access to Health and Healthcare. In Joel Faintuch & Salomão Faintuch (eds.), Business Ethics in the Healthcare Industry, Springer, 575-591.
• Mechthild Roos (2025): A conceptual guide to interdisciplinary research in European studies. In Andreas Moberg (ed.), Towards Non-Unidisciplinary Research in European Studies – the Why’s and How’s of Inter-, Cross-, and Multidisciplinary Research, De Gruyter, 35-59.
• Mechthild Roos (2025): Germany. In Juliet Lodge, Julie Smith & Stergios Fotopoulos (eds.), Palgrave Handbook on the 2024 European Parliament Elections, Palgrave, 261-283.
• Mechthild Roos (2023): Different Systems, Similar Responses: Policy Reforms on Asylum-Seekers’ and Refugees’ Access to Healthcare in Germany and Sweden in the Wake of the 2015-17 ‘Migration Crisis’. In Mari-Liis Jakobson et al. (eds.), Anxieties of Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times, Springer, 129-146.
• Mechthild Roos (2021): The Strategic Involvement of the European Parliament in Establishing the European Social Fund. In Paul Stephenson et al. (eds.): Financial Accountability in the European Union: Institutions, Policy and Practice, London/New York: Routledge, 41-56.
• Mechthild Roos (2019): Die informelle Entwicklung einer supranationalen Co-Legislative: Das Europäische Parlament, 1952-1979. In Christian Henrich-Franke et al. (eds.): Grenzüberschreitende institutionalisierte Zusammenarbeit von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 417-446.
• Mechthild Roos (2019): La politique du Parlement européen sur l’égalité des sexes avant 1979: une réussite inattendue. In Anne-Laure Briatte et al. (eds.): L’Europe, une chance pour les femmes? Le genre de la construction européenne, Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 105-114.

Other publications

• Mechthild Roos (2026): Review on Koen van Zon (2024): Heralds of a Democratic Europe: Representation without Politicization in the European Community, 1948-68, Agenda Publishing. H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, Review 157.
• Mechthild Roos (2025): Review on Christoph Driessen (2024): Griff nach den Sternen. Die Geschichte der Europäischen Union (Pustet). Historische Zeitschrift, 321:1, 144-145.
• Mechthild Roos (2025): Von vagen Visionen zu klaren Rechten. Wie das frühe Europäische Parlament das Gebiet der Gleichstellungspolitik und damit die soziale Dimension europäischer Integration prägte. CLIO – Themenportal Europäische Geschichte.
• Mechthild Roos (2024): Review on Kari Palonen: At the Origins of Parliamentary Europe. Supranational parliamentary government in debates of the Ad Hoc Assembly for the European Political Community in 1952-1953. Portal für Politikwissenschaft, DOI: https://doi.org/10.36206/REZ24.48.
• Mechthild Roos (2024): The Post-Pandemic Parliament. Ideas on Europe & eu!radio, 4 June 2024.
• Mechthild Roos (2024): Study: The European Parliament and the Origins of Social Policy. European Parliamentary Research Service, European Parliament, March 2024.
• Mechthild Roos (2024): Briefing: The European Parliament and the origins of social policy. European Parliamentary Research Service, European Parliament, February 2024.
• Mechthild Roos (2023): Three years European Health Union – Time to drop the grand title? Ideas on Europe & eu!radio, 3 November 2023.
• Mechthild Roos (2023): Has the idea of a European Health Union run out of steam? Healthy Europe, 14 September 2023.
• Mechthild Roos (2022): A European Health Rights Union. Ideas on Europe & eu!radio, 21 November 2022.
• Mechthild Roos (2022): Why do we need a true European Health Union? Healthy Europe, 13 September 2022.
• Mechthild Roos (2022): The unreliability of compassion. Ideas on Europe & eu!radio, 22 April 2022.
• Mechthild Roos (2022): Review on M. Broad & S. Kansikas (eds.): European Integration Beyond Brussels. Unity in East and West Europe since 1945, Palgrave Macmillan 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-45444-9, in H-Soz-Kult, 14 April 2022.
• Mechthild Roos (2022): Uncovering the parliamentary roots of European social policy. EUROPP, 28 March 2022.
• Mechthild Roos (2019): Review on K. K. Patel: Projekt Europa. Eine kritische Geschichte, C.H.Beck, ISBN 978-3-406-72768-9, in Journal of European Integration History, 25:2, 311-315.
• Mechthild Roos (2019): The informal construction of Europe. Robert Schuman Initiative (Blog of the Robert Schuman Institute of European Affairs, University of Luxembourg), 20 March 2019.
• Mechthild Roos (2017): Times of Crisis, Times of Prospects: Can the EU Learn from the 1970s? UCL Brexit Blog, 1 March 2017.
• Mechthild Roos (2015): Let’s Talk Business: The Economic Impact of Brexit. European Futures, 30 November 2015.
• Mechthild Roos (2015): How a Brexit Would Influence the British Economy. A Four-Part Brexit Blog. Canterbury Politics and International Relations Blog, July to November 2015.
• Mechthild Roos (2015): Triple-A rating? Juncker’s vision for the EU’s social policy scorecard. Canterbury Politics and International Relations Blog, 20 May 2015.
• Mechthild Roos (2015): A Snap-Shot of WWI in 140 Signs – One Year On. World War I Centenary Blog: Continuations and Beginnings, Oxford University, 10 March 2015.