News from the Jacques Delors Centre

Talks to form a new government have begun in the wake of France's parliamentary elections. The left-wing alliance Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) claims the post of prime minister as the winner of the election and announced on Monday that it would present a candidate within a week.

In the thirty-ninth episode of the EU to go podcast, Thu Nguyen and Johannes Lindner look at Europe in the super election year 2024. They analyse what's still on the agenda before the European election in June 2024, how the predicted shift to the right in EU can be confronted and what will happen in Brussels after the election.

An obituary for Jacques Delors by Jacques Delors Centre Co-Director Johannes Lindner.

In the thirty-eighth episode of the EU to go podcast, hosts Thu Nguyen and Johannes Lindner discuss the impact of Ukraine's accession on the EU budget, whether the costs are really as high as generally assumed, and why Hungary's veto of the Ukraine aid package looks like blackmail to the EU?

In an op-ed for the FAZ, Johannes Lindner and Sebastian Mack plead for an honest debate and provide constructive suggestions for improving the quality of European regulation.

Thu Nguyen and Johannes Lindner write that the costs of Ukraine's EU accession would be lower than generally assumed
 

The French economist and the German Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Action shared their ideas on financing a just transition in France, Germany and Europe.  

The Jacques Delors Centre’s Co-Director stresses that EU governments should not react with national subsidies on their own to the new competition reality. More European coordination is necessary.  

In their op-ed, the Jacques Delors Centre Co-Director and Deputy Director explain why Germany should refocus on the EU single market.

On 12 September 2023, Franco-German experts and politicians met in the Paulskirche to unpack the European dimension of 1848 and to discuss the relevance of the events for today’s democracy and its supranational dimension. 

In the thirty-third episode of the EU to go podcast, Johannes Lindner talks with Thu Nguyen and Nicolai von Ondarza (SWP) about why institutional reforms are needed in the EU and how EU enlargement will impact the debate.

In the interview, our Co-Director analyses the Chancellor's speech in the European Parliament, the importance of the institutional reform agenda and Franco-German relations.