EU – Mechthild Roos

New Article Out with JHPPL: The EU as Active and Passive Political Determinant of Forced Migrants’ Health

The most recent special issue of the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law assembles a range of articles on the theme of political determinants of health and the European Union. I contributed an article (open access) on The EU as Active and Passive Political Determinant of Forced Migrants’ Health:…

New volume out: ‘Europäische Einigung zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit’ (Metropol)

Just in time for the European election, Mathias Häußler‘s and my new volume on ‘Europäische Einigung zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit‘ (European integration between aspirations and reality) has been published by Metropol. In this volume, a group of renowned scholars engage with key debates and themes in current EU politics through…

OUT NOW: ‘The EU under Strain?’ (De Gruyter)

Our new volume ‘The EU under Strain? Current Crises Shaping European Union Politics‘ has just been published with De Gruyter. It is the inaugural volume of our new book series ‘Europe under Strain‘, which I co-edit with the wonderful Daniel Schade (Leiden University). Daniel is also the co-editor of the…

Summer conference season 2021: Presentations on European social policy, national health and asylum policies & more

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 the world, inspiring keynotes and in-depth discussions! I was happy…

Upcoming talk: The (construed) role of the EU in national policies on asylum seekers’ and refugees’ access to health care

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 talk, I will shed light on the (construed) roles national…

“National values” in asylum and health policies: Presentation at the RESPOND Conference in Cambridge (17-19 Oct 2019)

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 discuss recent developments and new insights in the field of…

New article on intra-party group unity in the early European Parliament (Parliamentary Affairs)

This article examines the inner unity of the European Parliament’s (EP) party groups prior to its first direct elections in 1979, at a time when such unity was technically not necessary, given the EP’s dominantly consultative role, according to the Treaties; and when no electoral incentives and few disciplinary tools…

CfP deadline coming up: Second Graduate Conference on European Integration History, Florence

Our Second Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration will take place on 10-12 September 2018 at the European University Institute in Florence. You can submit an abstract until 31 March 2018. The Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration is a joint initiative between the…

Joined the great data collection project V-Dem

Now it is official: I am very happy to take over the roll as country coordinator on Luxembourg at the great data collection project Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), which aims to provide a new approach to conceptualising and measuring democracy worldwide. It compiles “a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects…