Gerda Falkner
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View article: Digital sovereignty - Rhetoric and reality
Digital sovereignty - Rhetoric and reality Open
In recent years, the language of digital sovereignty has become ubiquitous in Europe. However, we still lack systematic knowledge if and to what extent the discourse on digital sovereignty is accompanied by actual policy change in differen…
View article: Acting in the Shadow of German Hegemony? The Role of Small States in the Economic and Monetary Union (Introduction to the Special Issue)
Acting in the Shadow of German Hegemony? The Role of Small States in the Economic and Monetary Union (Introduction to the Special Issue) Open
This article introduces the special issue on smaller states and their relation to Germany in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). While there has been a mushrooming literature on the role of Germany in EMU, there has been hardly any rese…
View article: Remapping the European <scp>agenda‐setting</scp> landscape
Remapping the European <span>agenda‐setting</span> landscape Open
In the European Union (EU), agenda setting is formally centralized at the European Commission. During the last decade since the Lisbon Treaty, however, this agenda‐setting monopoly was challenged by other institutions against the backdrop …
View article: A causal loop? The Commission’s new enforcement approach in the context of non-compliance with EU law even after CJEU judgments
A causal loop? The Commission’s new enforcement approach in the context of non-compliance with EU law even after CJEU judgments Open
How policy stakeholders receive CJEU rulings will influence the European Commission's reasoning on how much litigation makes sense in order to fight infringements of EU law. Therefore, the article focuses not only on the European Commissio…
View article: EU Policies and Populist Radical Right Parties' Programmatic Claims: Foreign Policy, Anti‐discrimination and the Single Market
EU Policies and Populist Radical Right Parties' Programmatic Claims: Foreign Policy, Anti‐discrimination and the Single Market Open
In recent national elections and in those to the European Parliament, populist radical right parties (PRRPs) have gained many more votes than in previous decades. What could that mean, at least in the long run, for EU activities in such ar…
View article: A causal loop? The Commission’s new enforcement approach in the context of non-compliance with EU law even after CJEU judgments
A causal loop? The Commission’s new enforcement approach in the context of non-compliance with EU law even after CJEU judgments Open
How policy stakeholders receive CJEU rulings will influence the European Commission's reasoning on how much litigation makes sense in order to fight infringements of EU law. Therefore, the article focuses not only on the European Commissio…
View article: The EU’s current crisis and its policy effects: research design and comparative findings
The EU’s current crisis and its policy effects: research design and comparative findings Open
The paper summarises a collaborative international research project comparing the impact of the ongoing conglomerate of crises in nine EU policies. All of them saw significant crisis-induced pressures and challenges. Beyond changes in disc…