1. Europe’s union in crisis: tested and contested Brigid Laffan
2. Politicisation and integration through law: whither integration theory? Sabine Saurugger
3. The EU’s problem-solving capacity and legitimacy in a crisis context: a virtuous or vicious circle? Gerda Falkner
4. Fleeing the centre: the rise of challenger parties in the aftermath of the euro crisis Sara B. Hobolt and James Tilley
5. After the Spitzenkandidaten: fundamental change in the EU’s political system? Thomas Christiansen
6. The Commission: boxed in and constrained, but still an engine of integration Stefan Becker, Michael W. Bauer, Sara Connolly and Hussein Kassim
7. Reinterpreting the rules ‘by stealth’ in times of crisis: a discursive institutionalist analysis of the European Central Bank and the European Commission Vivien A. Schmidt
8. Europe’s crises and the EU’s ‘big three’ Ulrich Krotz and Richard Maher
9. EU experimentalist governance in times of crisis Jonathan Zeitlin
10. Why the single market remains the EU’s core business Jacques Pelkmans
Biography
Brigid Laffan is Director and Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI), Florence. She has published widely on European Integration including Core-periphery Relations in the European Union (London: Routledge, 2016), Ireland and the European Union (2008), Renovation or Revolution: new territorial politics in Ireland and the United Kingdom, (2005), Europe's Experimental Union. Re thinking Integration (1999) and The Finances of the Union (1997).
