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Differentiation is key to understanding the European Union. This June, ARENA offers PhD students access to state-of-the-art research on all EU relevant aspects of differentiation, drawing on the EU3D network and knowledge.

Application deadline: 15 May 2022

On 24-28 January 2022, Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA and PACTE organised an EU3D series of debates on the future of the European Union. The debates took place in the context of the French Presidency of the Council of the EU.

What role can regions and local authorities play in the ongoing Conference on the future of Europe? This and other questions were discussed at a policy dialogue organized by ARENA on 26 May 2021. This conference report sums up the main issues discussed at the event.

EU3D researcher Max Steuer (Comenius University) has written two pieces for Verfassungsblog on the European Citizens' Panels and the Conference on the Future of Europe. 

In May 2021, ARENA Centre for European Studies organised a PhD course, gathering doctoral students and leading scholars to discuss a differentiated Europe and its implications.

Why is risk-sharing in EU financial policy so controversial and what are viable and legitimate models and options to overcome the conundrum? These questions were addressed by Sonja Puntscher Riekmann in a EU3D Lecture on 19 May 2021.

What is the relation between internal and external differentiation? What influence do third countries, and more specifically external hegemons have on the process of differentiation? These were among the questions discussed at a workshop organised by Science Po Grenoble/CNRS on 12 May 2021. 

EU3D professors Jozef Bátora and John Erik Fossum presented their book and debated the EU’s present and future development as part of the EGPP seminar series. 

EU3D professors John Erik Fossum, Dirk Leuffen, Chris Lord, and Sabine Saurugger discussed differentiation and the future of Europa at the ACES Annual Conference. Watch all sessions here.

EU3D team leader Sergio Fabbrini and scientific coordinator John Erik Fossum discussed the EU’s current challenges and remedying actors and factors at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.

Jan Zielonka ha co-authored a op-ed in the German newspaper Die Zeit on the EU's coronavirus recovery fund. 

John Erik Fossum has become Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Federal Studies (CFS) at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent.

The EU3D team had a successful review meeting with the European Commission's Research Executive Agency in March 2020. 

Guntram Wolff has co-authored an opinion piece on how the ruling of the German Federal Constitutional Court of May 5 affects the relation of Germany to the ECB and the ECJ, and the constitutional foundations of monetary policy.

ARENA participated in a kick off meeting of the project DiCE Differentiation: Clustering Excellence in Florence on 24 February 2020. 

Some of the differentiation we have witnessed in the EU post-crises have had negative democratic effects. This raises a number of questions about the relationship between differentiation, dominance and democracy, which were discussed by EU3D researchers at a workshop in Oslo in January 2020.

The United Kingdom will become the EU's first ex-member state. Can the relationship between the non-member Norway and the EU be used as a model for the UK after Brexit?

EU3D coordinator ARENA Centre for European Studies has a vacant position (100 %) as research assistant. Deadline: 21 November 2019. 

The EU’s focus on showing unity and harmony could get in the way of dealing with the many difficult questions and challenges the Union is facing, according to experts and academics who gathered in Brussels to discuss Europe after Sibiu.

Sir Ivan Rogers, former UK ambassador to the EU held the first EU3D Future of Europe Lecture at at the University of Oslo on 18 September 2019.

ARENA Centre for European Studies, Unviersity of Oslo has a vacant position as post-doctoral fellow in EU3D, and an open call for a PhD position that could also be linked to the project.

The University of Copenhagen is seeking a post-doctoral fellow to join its EU3D team. Deadline: 5 August 2019. 

EU3D researcher Jozef Bátora was interviewed about the European Parliament elections on the Slovakian TV channel RTVS. 

John Erik Fossum has contributed to an article on the EU elections in The Conversation. 

Jagiellonian University in Krakow is seeking a post-doctoral researcher and a research assistant to join its EU3D team.