WDR Mittagsecho
The European elections are over and the results show a win for right-wing parties. In the WDR podcast Mittagsecho, three experts discuss the consequences of this election.
Fieldtrip Berlin
On 24th and 25th June 2024, European Studies students took part in an excursion to Berlin. They visited the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, the Bundesrat, the Representation of Saxony-Anhalt and the Representation of the European Commission.
The UK and its Neighbours: views across Europe
Eight years after the UK voted to leave the European Union the Brexit still has an impact on our daily lives. The relationship betwenn the UK and its neighbours is an important topic which the book discusses in terms of four questions
New research project: The executive triangle of the European Commission
The EUS team participates in the "CoREx" network, which analyses the executive triangle of executive politicians, top bureaucrats and political advisors in Europe from an innovative and comparative perspective. As part of Working Group 2, Prof Dr Eva Heidbreder and Dr Johannes Gerken are carrying out research on career patterns in the executive triangle of the European Commission as a central political actor within the EU’s multilevel governance framework.
Election of Prof. Heidbreder as Co-Speaker IPSA
In September 2023, Prof. Eva Heidbreder (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg) was elected Co-Speaker of Research Committee 30 - Comparative Public Policy at the International Political Science Association (IPSA).
RC30 conducts theoretically-informed comparative studies of policies and policy processes with the explicit aim of testing and refining existing models and frameworks as well as, where possible, developing new additions to the policy studies literature.
