Erik Jones
@erik-jones.bsky.social
Director, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Europe, Co-editor Government & Opposition. Re-post ≠ endorsement.
The challenge now is to recognize the steps being taken that will transform the internal market -- and other parts of the EU -- even more fundamentally. It is also to explain why there is no alternative. 2/2 encompass-europe.com/comment/euro...
Europe: mortal, yet resilient
The European Union can fail, but it doesn’t have to. That is the message that you read across Emmanual Macron’s 2024 Sorbonne speech, in Mario Draghi’s 2024 report on…
encompass-europe.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The challenge now is to recognize the steps being taken that will transform the internal market -- and other parts of the EU -- even more fundamentally. It is also to explain why there is no alternative. 2/2 encompass-europe.com/comment/euro...
I wouldn't count Europe out too quickly. I remember coming to Brussels in the late 1980s to study the single market. Even the staunchest advocates of the 1992 project underestimate just how much the EU would change over the next 15 years. 1/2 carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...
Betting on Europe
The rift between Brussels and Washington raises questions about which side will emerge stronger. The Europeans are laying the groundwork to enhance their power and have already proved their ability to...
carnegieendowment.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I wouldn't count Europe out too quickly. I remember coming to Brussels in the late 1980s to study the single market. Even the staunchest advocates of the 1992 project underestimate just how much the EU would change over the next 15 years. 1/2 carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...
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Also presenting his chapter of the #TEPSARecommendations, “Europe and the choice between drift and master”, is @eui-schuman.bsky.social's @erik-jones.bsky.social
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October 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Also presenting his chapter of the #TEPSARecommendations, “Europe and the choice between drift and master”, is @eui-schuman.bsky.social's @erik-jones.bsky.social
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"The EU is already expanded; #enlargement is just about working with other countries to manage the system that we already have. The solution to the problem is Europe and the Presidency is determined to bring that path forward"
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October 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"The EU is already expanded; #enlargement is just about working with other countries to manage the system that we already have. The solution to the problem is Europe and the Presidency is determined to bring that path forward"
- @erik-jones.bsky.social, Director @eui-schuman.bsky.social
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- @erik-jones.bsky.social, Director @eui-schuman.bsky.social
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