On 15 April 2025, Prof. Dr. Christian Freudlsperger gave his inaugural lecture at ETH Zurich. The topic of the lecture was "The European Reinsurance of the Nation-State?". A video recording of the lecture can be found on the ETH website: https://video.ethz.ch/speakers/lecture/5ebf3d98-e14e-49ea-850f-0b838e2caaa5.html
Max Heermann has published a new article co-authored with Sharon Baute and Dirk Leuffen (both University of Konstanz) in the Journal of European Public Policy.
Prof. Christian Freudlsperger and Martin Weinrich (University Osnabrück) published an article in the European Journal of Political Research. Titled "Varieties of pro-Europeanism?", it analyzes party positions in the 2009, 2014, 2019, and 2024 European elections. The paper shows that pro-EU parties have developed distinct positions, especially on redistribution and solidarity. Access it here: https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.12753.
The Research Group on Multilevel Politics welcomes two new postdoctoral researchers starting 1 January 2025. Dr. Marta Migliorati, with experience at the University of Malta, European University Institute and Hertie School, holds a PhD from the University of Milan. She will work on EU policy implementation in the SNSF-DFG project "IMPLEMENT.EU". Dr. Max Heermann, with a PhD from the University of Konstanz, joins the "EUROPE RE" project, analyzing public reinsurance in the EU.