European Integration
What explains institutional change in the EU? Can and should the EU be reformed to engage effectively and legitimately with the interests and capacities of the member states, neighbouring countries, and the multiple policy challenges Europe faces?
Thomas Winzen
Political Scientist
Political scientist interested in institutions and legitimate governance
Publications
Ever Looser Union? Differentiated European Integration
Differentiated integration has become a durable feature of the European Union and is a major alternative for its future development and …
Government Euroscepticism and differentiated integration
It is common to consider mass politics and Eurosceptic politicization as ‘post-functionalist’ constraints that encourage differentiated …
Grand theories, differentiated integration
Even though differentiation has become a core feature of the EU, the grand theories have focused almost exclusively on uniform …
Opting out from European Union legislation: the differentiation of secondary law
Differentiated integration in the European Union (EU) has been primarily discussed and analysed at the treaty level, whereas lack of …
Eastern enlargement and differentiated integration: towards normalization
Against the background of theoretical arguments and the historical record, enlargements of the European Union tend to increase …
Explaining differentiation in European Union treaties
Since the early 1990s, European integration has become increasingly differentiated. Analysing the conditions under which member states …