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@adrianabuneauib.bsky.social and @sergiulipcean.bsky.social ask: If the European Commission consults more stakeholders, are its proposals less likely to be changed by legislators?

✅ Bottom line: Yes, but it depends

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February 19, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Erika J. van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and @takesipma.bsky.social explore how citizens’ views of ideological bias (including toward scientists 😉) shape confidence in public‑service institutions

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February 18, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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How do workers respond to using AI technology? For @defactoexpert.bsky.social I had the opportunity to highlight the implications of our recent @jeppjournal.bsky.social article. Read more in the blog!
The surprising sociotropic effects of generative AI exposure on social policy preferences – @mhaslberger.bsky.social, Jane Gingrich, Jasmine Bhatia

As AI rapidly enters workplaces, a crucial question arises: how do workers respond when they use this technology?

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February 18, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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📢 New publication

@afernandezpasarin.bsky.social and @joanmiroartigas.bsky.social have just published a great paper at @jeppjournal.bsky.social

Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility

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Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility
This article examines the flexibility of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). It asks under what conditions modifications to the original National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) have ...
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February 17, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Is Schengen's endgame defensive integration via internal controls? This article by @ejpfurst.bsky.social examines how member states wield temporary border checks for security, reshaping the free-movement zone.

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Defensive integration through cooperative re-bordering? How member states use internal border controls in Schengen
Following the refugee crisis in 2015 and the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the use of internal border controls within the EU expanded considerably. This change seems to be at odds with the freedom ...
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February 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.36
🌍 Based on @jeppjournal.bsky.social, @vvukov.bsky.social compares Central + Eastern Europe with the Western Balkans to argue that the #EU’s governance of #EconomicIntegration is a decisive lever of transformation.
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🧭 How economic governance makes or breaks EU enlargement
Comparing Central and Eastern Europe with the Western Balkans, Visnja Vukov argues that the EU’s governance of economic integration is a decisive lever of transformation. When the EU prioritises and c...
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February 16, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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🗣️ Debates Section:

🗨️ @leuffen.bsky.social, @antoanetadl.bsky.social , Ulrich Sedelmeier, Sandra Lavenex, Thomas Risse & Frank Schimmelfennig: Rhetorical action in a liberal international order in crisis: theorising EU and NATO enlargements post-2022 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
🛠️🕺 How 🇪🇺 industrial policy got its groove back: Eugenia C. Heldt & Sophie Meunier show that securitisation & governance shifts let the European Commission make a strong case for more interventionism👇

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February 11, 2026 at 3:24 PM
🔍 Much blamed, barely understood: @jekantol.bsky.social and Barbara Gaweda show that the Council of the EU remains reluctant toward intersectionality in gender equality law 👇

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February 6, 2026 at 5:31 PM
💶👫 Taxation Thursday: What explains shifts from joint to individual tax units for couples?

👿 Teresa Fehrenbach finds that the devil lies in the calculation method. Countries using aggregation are far more likely to shift than those stuck with splitting 👇

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February 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
🤯 Lost in the literature on European identity?

🙌 Juan J. Fernández, Olena Bedasheva & Maria Durbán offer a remedy: they conduct a meta-analysis and show that European identification has many predictors 👇

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February 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
⏱️ @frederikstevens.bsky.social examines when interest groups mobilise to keep “nightmare” issues off the EU agenda.

⏳ Survey data on 485 EU-level groups shows negative agenda-setting is about timing, not just mobilisation 👇

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Anticipating nightmare issues: explaining the timing of negative agenda-setting by interest groups
This paper investigates the timing of interest groups’ negative agenda-setting efforts. Some organizations lobby proactively to prevent their ‘nightmare’ issues from reaching the formal policy agen...
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February 2, 2026 at 3:19 PM
💻 Who actually wants “digitalisation”?

Alexander Kuo, @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @ainagallego.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social survey five EU countries and find a clear mainstream-populist divide in support for digitalisation policies 👇

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January 29, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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🔥 Populist parties are no Robin Hood...⚡️

Now with page numbers and in #openaccess, part of a terrific special issue for @jeppjournal.bsky.social

With the amazing @eborghetto.bsky.social and Derek Epp

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Alt: The rooster from Robin Hood is holding a guitar and walking
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January 29, 2026 at 9:42 AM
🥊 Trump meets the EU's fiscal rules: Federico Fabbrini and Sergio Fabbrini outline the 'Trump effect' 👇

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January 28, 2026 at 5:45 PM
🙇 Long live 'negative integration'!

💡 @jasminzoellmer.bsky.social shows that negative integration has not ended but changed form: shifting from CJEU litigation to preventive Commission mechanisms and the internalisation of mutual recognition 👇

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January 27, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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More and more countries see emigration (!) and not immigration as a challenge.

Together with Cecilia Bruzelius I asked how EU law structures emigration in an open border Europe and if it shows any sensitivity to brain drain and population loss.

Our paper now published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social
🌍 Can EU law address the effects of emigration?

Cecilia Bruzelius & @dionkramer.bsky.social show that EU law has more tools for immigration than emigration and outline social security, tax, and EU-fund options to tackle hidden inequalities 👇

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January 27, 2026 at 10:03 AM
🌍 Can EU law address the effects of emigration?

Cecilia Bruzelius & @dionkramer.bsky.social show that EU law has more tools for immigration than emigration and outline social security, tax, and EU-fund options to tackle hidden inequalities 👇

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January 26, 2026 at 3:15 PM
🧠📈 Do policymakers link skills in the knowledge economy with social inclusion?

🧲 Treating the knowledge economy as a coalition magnet, Martin B. Carstensen, Patrick Emmenegger, and Cecilia Ivardi Ganapini show distinct patterns across countries 👇

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January 23, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Very pleased to share that the final article from my PhD journey has found a home at the @jeppjournal.bsky.social!

This is for you if you’re interested in political cleavages & social policy change

Free copies in the following link
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A two-dimensional conflict? The new politics of minimum income reform in Southern Europe
This article theorises and empirically traces how the emergence of a value-based cleavage has reshaped the politics of minimum income reform in Southern Europe. It argues that the rise of the liber...
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January 19, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Happy to share this new paper @jeppjournal.bsky.social with my great colleagues @dweisstanner.bsky.social & Carsten Jensen.

In "Winning with equality", we show "how left-wing parties attract votes but [in doing so] amplify electoral cleavages"

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Key points in 📈👇
January 19, 2026 at 9:45 AM
🐎 Which horse should left parties bet on: economic equality or equal rights?

💡 @alexanderhorn.bsky.social, Carsten Jensen & @dweisstanner.bsky.social find that the centre-left wins votes when it does both, while the postmaterialist left gains with equal rights

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January 19, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Very happy to be part of this fabulous special issue. Thank you again to the guest editors for putting this together! All articles do more than “only” explaining the 2024 EP elections and make important contributions to our general understanding of European politics.
📰 Issue 33:2 out! 👉 Special Issue: European Democracy in Action? The 2024 European Parliament Elections, guest edited by @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Sebastian-Adrian Popa, and Wouter van der Brug

Read the whole issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

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January 16, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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I’m thrilled to see this JEPP Special Issue on the 2024 🇪🇺European Parliament elections in print

Great articles on far-right voting, realignment, attitudes to EU climate action etc.

Thanks to everyone who contributed and those who made EES 2024 @eesresearch.bsky.social possible!

Read more here 👇
📰 Issue 33:2 out! 👉 Special Issue: European Democracy in Action? The 2024 European Parliament Elections, guest edited by @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Sebastian-Adrian Popa, and Wouter van der Brug

Read the whole issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

📸 © European Union 2024 - Source : EP
January 16, 2026 at 7:29 PM
📰 Issue 33:2 out! 👉 Special Issue: European Democracy in Action? The 2024 European Parliament Elections, guest edited by @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Sebastian-Adrian Popa, and Wouter van der Brug

Read the whole issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

📸 © European Union 2024 - Source : EP
January 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM