Articles by Stefan Telle

April 22, 2025

🧭 Differentiated membership, strategic necessity, and the risk to ever-closer union  

Stefan Telle
Differentiated membership may offer a pragmatic path to EU enlargement, but it risks undermining unity in a multipolar world. Stefan Telle argues that without investment in centre-formation and shared political identity, the EU could drift into transactionalism, weakening its global voice and eroding the ideal of an ever-closer union Differentiated membership is gaining traction as […]
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Stefan Telle
Assistant Professor, European Governance and Politics, University of Twente

Stefan teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on European Union policy, institutions, and external action.

Before joining the University of Twente, Stefan was a Research Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, where he studied the preferences of EU member state governments concerning differentiated integration.

He is co-editor and contributor to a recent special issue of West European Politics on external differentiated integration.

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