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Differentiation is key to understanding the European Union. This spring, ARENA will offer PhD students access to frontier research on all EU relevant aspects of differentiation.

The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway, is hosting a European Integration Summer School on "The European Union in Crisis: Differentiation or Disintegration?".

Students can apply until March 1, 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.

We offer grants of NOK 20,000 to students who write their master’s thesis on EU3D-relevant topics. 

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. 

Guntram Wolff participated in a discussion on the German Constitutional Court's ruling on the ECB QE programme on Bruegel's Sound of Economics podcast in May 2020. 

John Erik Fossum was interviewed on the BRIDGE Network's post Brexit Europe podcast. 

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.

John Erik Fossum was interviewed about Brexit in the Norwegian podcast Pod Britannia 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. 

The European Union is engaged in a large-scale debate on its future nature and direction. The role and importance of theoretically informed and empirically grounded research in that process is essential, as was made very clear at EU3D’s opening conference in Rome.