The summer conference season 2021 opened for me with this year’s annual conference of the Refugee Law Initiative, ‘Ageing Gracefully? The 1951 Refugee Convention at 70‘. What a splendid event, with an enormous variety of speakers from all parts of…
Now that it has a website, it feels overwhelmingly real: my book on the early European Parliament’s emerging influence on – and through – the establishment of a European social dimension will be published later this year with Palgrave Macmillan,…
Following my presentation on the (construed) role of the EU in national policies on asylum seekers’ and refugees’ access to health care at the “Health in Europe” discussion forum hosted by the Centre for Law and Society, Lancaster Law School…
The European Parliament’s (EP) primary raison d’être is the representation of the EU citizens, providing its members with the necessary argumentative basis to claim: There is no democratic legitimacy in EU politics without us! – Whereas this claim is the…
On Wednesday, 24 March, I will present a part of my research project “Migration and health policies in Europe” at the “Health in Europe” discussion forum hosted by the Centre for Law and Society, Lancaster Law School (UK). In my…
Following the 2019 RESPOND Conference in Cambridge, the organisers of the Panel “Governing through uncertainty?” Veronica Federico and Renato Ibridoin put together a special issue at DPCE Online (collaboration with Ginevra Cerrina Feroni), which is now published. I was glad…
The European Parliament (EP) – today one of the most powerful actors at EU level – was intended to be a mere consultative assembly at the founding of the European Communities. In my research project on the institutional evolution of…
Informal dimensions of European integration have received limited academic attention to date, despite their historical and contemporary importance. Particularly studies in European integration history, while frequently mentioning informal processes, have as yet rarely conceptualised the study of informality in European…
From 17 to 19 October 2019, I had the opportunity to be among a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines – political science, sociology, law, anthropology, history etc. – who gathered at Newnham College, Cambridge University, to…
UACES is a vibrant global organisation for academics, students and practitioners interested in all aspects of Europe and the European Union. Amongst its extensive activities, UACES holds and supports a wide range of conferences and events, co-publishes various journals and…