Publications

Book (peer-reviewed)

• The Informal Construction of Europe (co-edited with Lennaert van Heumen). Contemporary European Studies Series, Abgindon/New York: Routledge (2019); therein:

• • Introduction (with Lennaert van Heumen), pp. 3-19.
  • Studying the Informal in European Integration: A Research Guide (with Christine Neuhold), pp. 20-39.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Becoming Europe’s Parliament: Europeanization through MEPs’ Supranational Activism, 1952-79. Journal of Common Market Studies, 58:6 (2020), pp. 1413-1432.

• Intra-party group unity in the European Parliament prior to its first direct elections in 1979. Parliamentary Affairs, 72:2 (2019), pp. 464-479.

• Pushing the Boundaries. New research on the Activism of EU Supranational Institutions (co-authored with David Howarth). Journal of Contemporary European Research, 3:2 (2017), pp. 1007-1024.

• Far Beyond the Treaties’ Clauses: The European Parliament’s Gain in Power, 1952-1979. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 3:2 (2017), pp. 1055-1075.

Contributions to edited volumes and non-peer-reviewed journals

• Die informelle Entwicklung einer supranationalen Co-Legislative: Das Europäische Parlament, 1952-1979. In Christian Henrich-Franke, Claudia Hiepel, Guido Thiemeyer & Henning Türk (eds.): Grenzüberschreitende institutionalisierte Zusammenarbeit von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Baden-Baden: Nomos (2019), pp. 417-446.

• La politique du Parlement européen sur l’égalité des sexes avant 1979: une réussite inattendue. In Anne-Laure Briatte, Éliane Gubin & Françoise Thébaud (eds.): L’Europe, une chance pour les femmes? Le genre de la construction européenne, Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne (2019), pp. 105-114.

• Zwischen Vertragsauslegung und Streben nach Macht: Informalität in der EU-Politik. Politikum, 5:3 (2019), pp. 30-36.

• The Migrant Workers’ Advocate. The Social Policy of the European Parliament concerning the Free Movement of Labour between 1951 and 1979. Hémecht. Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte, 2/2015, pp. 212-215.

Publications on academic blogs

• The informal construction of Europe. Robert Schuman Initiative (Blog of the Robert Schuman Institute of European Affairs, University of Luxembourg), 20 March 2019.

• Times of Crisis, Times of Prospects: Can the EU Learn from the 1970s? UCL Brexit Blog, 1 March 2017.

• Let’s Talk Business: The Economic Impact of Brexit. European Futures, 30 November 2015.

• How a Brexit Would Influence the British Economy. A Four-Part Brexit Blog. Canterbury Politics and International Relations Blog, July to November 2015.

• Triple-A rating? Juncker’s vision for the EU’s social policy scorecard. Canterbury Politics and International Relations Blog, 20 May 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.