EU3D- Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy
Develop a theory of differentiation in the EU that is institutionally sustainable and democratically legitimate
Timeline: 02/2019- 01/2023 > Then Extended to July 2023
Recent developments have exposed the EU’s vulnerability to volatile markets, geopolitical changes, and domestic opposition. EU3D’s main objective is to develop and apply to the EU and beyond a theory of differentiation that specifies the conditions under which differentiation is politically acceptable, institutionally sustainable and democratically legitimate, and singles out those forms of differentiation that engender dominance.
Bruegel was co-leading the area of “Policy and polity recommendations”, including through the organization of three policy dialogues, and was involved in the Dissemination and communication of the project through the organization of events and the Youth Essay competition about the future of Europe. Moreover, Bruegel was involved in the publications of different working papers, notably the paper on media narratives about EU integration.
Featured content
What's the story? Narratives of EU reforms in parliaments and the media
This event was organised in the frame of the EU3D project and featured two sessions analysing discourse about the EU.
You’ll never talk alone: what media narratives on European reforms reveal about a polity in the making
In this paper, we have analysed the coverage of reforms in a European context in the leading business newspapers in the three biggest EU member states
Conference on the Future of Europe: Vehicle for reform versus forum for reflection?
At this policy dialogue panellists discussed different options and what they may entail while revisiting the debates on the future of Europe so far.
Redefining Europe's role after the COVID-19 pandemic
Amidst COVID-19: how to keep markets integrated when states play a bigger role in the EU and its neighbourhood?
- University of Oslo, ARENA Centre for European Studies, Norway (Coordinator)
- Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
- Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Greece
- Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland
- LUISS Guido Carli, School of Government, Italy
- Sciences Po Grenoble (CNRS), France
- University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- University of Konstanz, Germany
- University of Oxford, UK
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The project “EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy” (EU3D) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation action under grant agreement number 822419.
