Articles by Lucas Schramm

February 12, 2026

What The Economist magazine's coverage reveals about the European Council

Lucas Schramm

Based on a 67-year arc of reporting by British magazine The Economist, Lucas Schramm analyses the European Council, a key institution of the European Union. He shows how that coverage explains why the European Council was created, how it evolved, what it does, and why its dominance is both useful and unsettling

March 17, 2025

🧭 EU enlargement and the critical role played by the European Council

Lucas Schramm

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

March 18, 2021

What explains Germany’s conversion to common European Union debt?

Lucas Schramm

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

Lucas Schramm

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.

@lucasschramm91.bsky.social

Crises of European Integration – Joining Together or Falling Apart?
Palgrave, 2024

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Articles by Lucas Schramm

What The Economist magazine's coverage reveals about the European Council

🧭 EU enlargement and the critical role played by the European Council

What explains Germany’s conversion to common European Union debt?

The Loop

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