Webpages tagged with «European integration»

The face of Mario Draghi. he is the President of the European Central Bank. Blue background.
Published Apr. 3, 2018 8:16 PM

During the euro crisis, the European Central Bank carved out a new and more significant role for itself. While many agree that this saved the euro in the short term, new research by Jørgen Bølstad at ARENA suggests that the ECB’s new role as a lender of last resort may also prevent future crises.

Published July 23, 2010 9:39 AM
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Published Aug. 20, 2018 2:41 PM

A research group at ARENA Centre for European Studies headed by Prof. John Erik Fossum has succeeded in a highly competitive bid for international research funding. ARENA is celebrating the success.

Published July 26, 2010 2:35 PM
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Published Apr. 23, 2019 2:41 PM

Alexander Katsaitis has co-authored a new paper in The Journal of Legislative Studies about interest group representation in the European Parliament. 

Published Oct. 29, 2018 12:00 PM

Helene Sjursen explores the sources of legitimacy of the European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) in the journal Global Affairs

Published Jan. 23, 2019 1:19 PM

Is differentiation part of the problem or part of the solution to the European Union's current challenges? EU3D sets out to specify the conditions under which differentiation is politically acceptable, institutionally sustainable, and democratically legitimate.

An old man sitting at a meeting table with a lot of men around him
Published Dec. 5, 2018 3:44 PM

European decision-makers point to flexible relationships with the EU as a way to maintain their countries’ independence and autonomy. New research from ARENA suggests that political differentiation might in fact lead to the opposite, which does not bode well for the UK after Brexit.

Published Nov. 23, 2018 2:02 PM

Does the EU deliver on its human rights policy? Johanne D. Saltnes explores the EU’s use of the human rights clause and the legitimacy basis of the Union’s human rights policy in the journal Global Affairs.

European Parliament member in red dress holding placard that says MeToo.
Published Mar. 7, 2018 3:49 PM

- Initiatives to push the gender equality agenda often meet resistance from member states and powerful interest organisations, says EU researcher Helena Seibicke in this interview on the International Women's Day.

Published Nov. 20, 2017 5:24 PM

ARENA director Erik Oddvar Eriksen explains on the LSE Brexit blog that for the UK, the "Norway option" would amount to self-inflicted subservience to the EU.

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Published Oct. 30, 2018 12:30 PM

Agustín José Menéndez tests the reconstructive potential and the normative soundness of constitutional pluralism as a constitutional theory to make sense of European integration in the journal European Papers.

Published Jan. 11, 2019 3:24 PM

Cathrine Holst has contributed with a chapter in the new volume Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit on how Norway as a non-member is affected by - and affects - EU gender equality policy.

Photo of two soldiers preparing to give medical aid to a ship crew they rescued at the sea outside of Somalia.
Published Oct. 23, 2018 3:33 PM

How do we arrange relations between EU members and non-member democracies in ways that secure core standards of democratic legitimacy? Will Brexit aggravate this difficulty? 

painting of workers striking
Published Sep. 3, 2019 1:33 PM

What does it mean to be a European citizen? 25 years after the Treaty of Maastricht, ARENA researchers Espen D. H. Olsen and Agustín José Menéndez argue that provisions intended to create a European community may create more friction than harmony.

Published May 15, 2019 3:23 PM

Jarle Trondal and Nadja Kühn are published in World Political Science with an English translation of their award winning article on the governance of European affairs in Norway. 

Published Mar. 13, 2018 7:56 AM