A Joint Research Effort on the Future of EU Governance

As the European Union continues to evolve, one enduring challenge remains: How member states balance the advantages of deeper integration with the desire to retain control over key national policy areas. Over the next four years, a team of political scientists and legal scholars - led by Prof. Markus Jachtenfuchs of the Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie School -    will explore how this trade-off has been negotiated between EU institutions and member states, and why its configuration has varied over time.This research project, Reconfiguring Europe, is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

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Ana Bobić

Judicial conflict and the reconfiguration of control in the EU constitutional order

In criminal law, how do ordinary national courts contest and transform supranational judicial control in the EU? The project’s academic contribution is to map competence-control trade-offs in judicial contestation by the diverse and under-researched world of ordinary national courts.

Markus Jachtenfuchs

Competence, control, and the reconfiguration of the EU’s finances

The EU’s finances project investigates how the EU has mobilized financial resources over time, how these resources have been shaped by the tension between competence and control, and what these tradeoffs reveal about EU polity formation.

Mark Dawson

Populism and the Constitutional Re-Configuration of Europe

How do rising populist movements shape EU law? This project led by Mark Daswon, examines how national control claims from populist parties engage with EU legal principles, and how the EU Courts respond, shedding light on whether populism constrains or reconfigures the Union’s legal order.

Coordination Team

Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp

Professor for Comparative Politics, Free University of Berlin | Deputy Speaker

Prof. Dr. Markus Jachtenfuchs

Professor of European and Global Governance | Speaker

Dr. Martin Moland

Postdoctoral Researcher | Coordination project

Vasiliki Pashalidou

Student Assistant | Coordination Team

Linda Hewitt

Project Manager | Manager Communications and Events | Coordination Team

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