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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to have started the new academic year at the #College of Europe in Bruges - my Alma Mater - for the first time as visiting professor.

I am co-teaching a course on the #EuropeanCouncil, using as a basis our forthcoming book. Happy to meet old and news friends!

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 10d

Very excited about this moment! I am about to submit our #bookmanuscript on the #EuropeanCouncil to the publisher. Off now to the competent hands of @bloomsburypol.bsky.social

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Jun 4

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My argument and findings have implications for the current debates about an EU competitiveness plan and joint funding, notably for security and defence

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I probe the plausibility of this argument by analyzing two recent crises - the Covid-19 pandemic and the energy emergency - and document typical patterns of Germany‘s EU fiscal politics

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Jun 4

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- a general national tendency to act as status quo power that is largely satisfied with the current supranational setting

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- appeals by other EU countries and the felt need to promote supranational polity stability, especially during crises

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Jun 4

New article out in German Politics and Society!

www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

I develop a theoretical argument and mechanism about Germany‘s approach towards EU fiscal politics, based on two countervailing forces:

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www.berghahnjournals.com

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Alexander Schilin @aschilin.bsky.social · May 9

Publication Alert 📝

New article with @lucasschramm91.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social

It contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of differentiation in the EU. Case studies from EMU & Schengen show how issue-specific incentives lead to atypical integration patterns.

WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · May 8

Online first: "Insider, outsider, or both? Explaining discrepancies within differentiation in the European Union" by @aschilin.bsky.social & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Abstract of the article "Insider, outsider, or both? Explaining discrepancies within differentiation in the European Union" by Alexander Schilin and Lucas Schramm. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 1, displaying the interaction between the explanatory factors for individual member states and their implications for discrepancies between primary and secondary differentiation at EU level.

Figure 2, displaying the empirical variation of the explanatory factors in the analysed cases.

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · May 7

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We offer a more nuanced understanding of differentiated integration in the European Union, showing that de facto differentiation has been more integrative in the Eurozone whilst more disintegrative in the Schengen area than what de jure differentiated integration suggests

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · May 7

Very happy to see this article with #AlexSchilin out open access in #WestEuropeanPolitics

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · May 5

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- Co-author of a paper on norm contestation inside the European Council (Saturday 1:30pm)

Looking forward to meeting old and new friends in Philadelphia!

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- Chairing a panel on European integration in the geopolitical age (Friday 3:45pm)
- Co-author of a paper on the relations between the European Council and the European Parliament (Saturday 8:30am)

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · May 5

Excited to attend the conference of the European Union Studies Association (#EUSA) later this week

From Thursday to Saturday, I will be involved in four panels:

- Presenting a paper on how the China shock affects EU policymaking (Thursday 8.30am local time)

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Apr 13

Pünktlich zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum des Europäischen Rats ist unser aktualisierter Überblick über das Wirken dieser Schlüsselinstitution der Europäischen Union erschienen.

Wie immer frei verfügbar im „Taschenbuch Europa von A bis Z“ auf Springer Online:
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Apr 3

Happy to spend some time at #Princeton University in spring!

I will work on two papers: one on the 50th anniversary of the European Council, another on EU trade policy (couldn’t be more timely these days).

Let me know if you are around and also staying a bit longer in the U.S. after #EUSA.

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Mar 17

🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.10
@lucasschramm91.bsky.social argues that the European Council must reconcile the dual challenges of widening and deepening.
↔️ Despite formidable obstacles, enlargement could spur internal reforms and innovations.
@ecprsgeu.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/3FxjdXk

🧭 EU enlargement and the critical role played by the European Council

Rising geopolitical pressures, including an ongoing war in its immediate neighbourhood, have thrust EU enlargement back onto the agenda. Lucas Schramm contends that the European Council must reconcile...

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Mar 17

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The data and findings are based on a research article that was recently published in the Journal of European Integration

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Navigating widening and deepening: the European Council, geopolitical motives, and Union enlargement

Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Council has again moved enlargement high on the agenda of the European Union (EU). From an academic perspective, thi...

www.tandfonline.com

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Mar 17

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With enlargement back on the EU’s agenda, I assess the critical role played by the European Council in the accession procedure.

I scrutinise the four (successful) EU enlargement rounds to date, showing that geopolitical motives have always loomed large in European Council deliberations.

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Mar 17

Very happy to see this blog post just being published in the ECPR The Loop series ECPR Standing Group on the European Union (SGEU)

theloop.ecpr.eu/eu-enlargeme...

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Mar 13

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The quotes are taken from the 1975 Dublin summit. More documents on this consequential summit can be found here:

www.cvce.eu/en/education...

Resources for The European Council in Dublin - Historical events in the European integration process (1945–2009) - CVCE Website

This publication offers a chronological presentation of the milestones that have shaped the European integration process from 1945 to 2014.

www.cvce.eu

Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Mar 13

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- that of an impasse-breaker, limiting the practice in the Council (of ministers) to take decisions by “unanimous consent“

- that of a constitutional architect, establishing a “European Regional Development Fund“ and agreeing first steps towards a European Monetary Union

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Mar 13

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- that of a crisis manager, dealing with the “problems Europe is facing today“

- that of an external voice, enabling the Community to play a leading role in “world affairs“

- that of a “provisional government“ (Jean Monnet), defining matters of “common concern“ and a “unified position“

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Mar 13

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Over the following decades, this institution played an ever-more important role for the emerging EU polity. But already at Dublin and during its formative years, EUCO assumed FIVE key functions that it would consolidate and deepen later on:

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Mar 13

This week marks an important one in the history of European integration. Exactly 50 years ago, on 10 and 11 March 1975, the European Council held its first meeting and adopted its first conclusions:

www.consilium.europa.eu/media/20440/...

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Mar 11

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Importantly, this did not happen - in most member states - because French policy ideas were prevailing. Rather, external pressures are pushing the EU towards greater efforts for more sovereignty, independence and (!) protectionism.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Toward a more ‘sovereign’ Europe? Domestic, bilateral, and European factors to explain France’s (growing) influence on EU politics, 2017–2022 - French Politics

In recent years, both inside and outside France, scholars and policymakers have emphasized a small and declining French influence on European politics and the political direction of the European Union...

link.springer.com

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · Mar 11

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Salih I. Bora and I made similar arguments in our French Politics article more than two years ago, well before Trump 2. We show why and how the EU has adopted key French positions in defense, trade, industrial and fiscal policy.

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