Towards Circular Thinking: circular and evolutionary redesign in architecture

From regulation to enforcement in the EU policy cycle: A New Type of Functional Spillover?

The European Union has acquired enforcement competences in areas where it previously only had regulatory authority. This expansion of competences from one step in the policy cycle to another is a blind spot in the works on functional spillover. While the increasing enforcement powers of the EU are mentioned, it is in the context of more...

Towards a European Division of Labour: Do Europe’s Crises Highlight Structural Challenges to Sustainable Economic Growth in the Eurozone?

The financial and economic crises of the last few years in many Southern Eurozone countries are generally studied individually, without reference to other such crises in the region. In this note, we argue that they may also be approached as symptoms of an underlying structural challenge facing the EU economy. In many ways the relationship...

De zin en onzin van het EU integratiedebat

In hoeverre heeft het integratiedebat dat zich afspeelt binnen de Europese Unie invloed op de voortgang van het EU-integratieproces? Dit proces lijkt grotendeels gedreven te worden door bijzondere gebeurtenissen en omstandigheden. Beperkt het debat zich daardoor tot een hobby van academici en de retoriek van politici?