Rising geopolitical pressures, including an ongoing war in its immediate neighbourhood, have thrust EU enlargement back onto the agenda. Lucas Schramm contends that the European Council must reconcile the dual challenges of widening and deepening, as it has done historically. Despite formidable obstacles, enlargement could spur internal reforms and innovations
In 2020 Germany promoted a bold European response to the corona crisis, involving common EU debt. This contrasts starkly with its position a decade before, when it favoured austerity over fiscal stimulus and debt pooling. Lucas Schramm and Amandine Crespy argue that the specific nature of the corona crisis reconfigured Germany’s national interests in Europe
Senior Researcher / Lecturer, Geschwister Scholl Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
Lucas holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence.
His research interests concern the history and theories of European integration, European Union crisis politics, the European Council, and Franco-German political relations in the EU.
Lucas has published in leading academic journals, including European Political Science Review, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Comparative European Politics, and West European Politics.
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