But even as they try to speak with one voice, German and French interpretations of the means and ends of digital sovereignty are still not aligned.

Merz: "Digital sovereignty cannot be achieved through regulation and subsidies."

www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

Despite being a self-declared purist, at #IPSA2025 I learned to appreciate iced coffee more than ever.

If you're summer is also too hot (to immerse yourself in academic papers), I'm happy to offer two new short pieces perfectly timed for consuming with a cool coffee variant of your choice.

Pressure on Hungary is increasing amidst increasing domestic repression and continued foreign policy blockages.

The EU can count on robust public support for stringent norm enforcement, as we show in our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social article.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2503973

We show that citizens strongly support the enforcement of democratic norms in member states by the EU. While we do not find evidence for a decline in EU regime support, democratic backsliding might undermine European solidarity as citizens support the exclusion of norm violators from EU benefits.

📣 Happy to announce the publication of our article (w @sharonbaute.bsky.social & @leuffen.bsky.social) on democratic backsliding and public opinion @jeppjournal.bsky.social!

📌https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2503973

Study funded by @excinequality.bsky.social

We show that citizens strongly support the enforcement of democratic norms in member states by the EU. While we do not find evidence for a decline in EU regime support, democratic backsliding might undermine European solidarity as citizens support the exclusion of norm violators from EU benefits.

📣 Happy to announce the publication of our article (w @sharonbaute.bsky.social & @leuffen.bsky.social) on democratic backsliding and public opinion @jeppjournal.bsky.social!

📌https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2503973

Study funded by @excinequality.bsky.social.

Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.

This letter makes for a nice companion piece to our recent article in the European Journal of Political research, which also studies questions of fairness in international cooperation.
doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Under what conditions do citizens perceive differentiated EU integration as fair?

In our new article in European Union Politics, we examine the role of institutional design for public support of differentiation in a conjoint experiment:
doi.org/10.1177/1465...

The Easter basket wasn't empty! 🐣🐤

Great to see our (w @leuffen.bsky.social & @julianschuess.bsky.social) article on the link between fairness concerns and public support for (differentiated) EU integration published open access in the European Journal of Political Research: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

More soon.