Where is the Digital AI Omnibus going? On the importance of safeguarding social rights, equality and non-discrimination in the age of AI

Fabian Lütz

University of Ottawa, Canada

Enhancing the social and political legitimacy of the EU via the European Pillar of Social Rights? The case of the work-life balance directive

Caroline de la Porte, Zhen Im

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Does the European Pillar of Social Rights have real bite? An assessment in four EU countries

Viola Shahini, Amandine Crespy

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Taxing Power for the European Budget? Fiscal Lessons from Switzerland to the EU

Tiziano Zgaga

LMU Munich, Germany

How EU money is spent: Mapping institutional features of spending governance

Miriam Hartlapp, Taylor Pearce, Jakob Pegels

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Crisis-driven innovation in EU budgetary governance: The 2028–2034 Own Resources Decision and the new crisis mechanism

Julien Debande

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Who cares about the budget? - Shifting institutional control in EU budget implementation

Johannes Müller

European University Institute, Italy

Does the EU’s agencification come to a halt? Institutional developments within and outside the Commission

Paul Weismann

University of Salzburg, Austria

Pluralism Reimagined: The ECB as a Case Study for Multi-Level European Governance

Dilara Aydogus

SciencesPo Paris, France

Renewable energy communities: decentralisation and justice throughout the energy transition

Valeria Zambianchi, Antoine Thill

UC Louvain, Belgium

Exploring options to strengthen the European multi-level governance framework for zero-emission energy-intensive industries

Simon Otto

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Polycentric Governance as de facto Fiscal Capacity: Engineering EU Economic Integration via Green Finance

Gianluca Berardi

VUB, Belgium

Green Bonds or Green Chains? How Central banks in the Global South manage the green finance dilemma

Max Nagel

VUB, Belgium

The EU’s Interventionist Turn in Sustainable Finance: Public Issuers and the Making of the Green Bond Market

Lukas Spielberger^1,2

¹University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; ²Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels

Where does the money go? Mapping core-periphery dynamics in the legal design of the ECB’s monetary toolkit

Aldo de Cesare

Sciences Po, France

Beyond programmatic talk: measuring quality and quality of regulation for social, green and innovation goals in public procurement

Miriam Hartlapp¹, Robin Huguenot-Noel¹, Gresa Smolica¹, Gilad Weizman Shapira²

¹Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; ²Hebrew University, Israel

The Multilevel Implementation of the EU Just Transition Fund: Evidence from Southern Europe

Paolo Graziano

University of Padua, Italy

Optimising EU Trade Policy for Prosperity and Economic Security

Niall Moran

DCU, Ireland

The Role of Third Parties in the EU FDIs Multilevel Governance: From Information Provider to Procedural Actor

Oriana Balsamo

Luiss, Italy

Prosperity After Liberalisation: The EU’s Energy Dilemma

Mathias PERL

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Rethinking Competition in the Era of Decarbonization: The Role of State Aid

Fernanda Schininà

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy

Supranational to sovereign? The institutional development of the European Commission’s borrowing capacity since 1990

David Howarth, Lukas Spielberger

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Borrowing for autonomy: EU fiscal capacity beyond emergency

Maria Antonia Panascì^1,2

¹Mercatorum University, Rome; ²Bocconi University, Milan

Safeguarding Fundamental Rights in EU Funding: Lessons Learned ahead of the Next Multiannual Financial Framework

Ilaria Gambardella^1,2,3

¹Université libre de Bruxelles; ²KU Leuven; ³FWO - Research Foundation Flanders

Environmental fiscal integration through conditional funding: a path beyond conferral?

Martha Caziero

Tilburg University, Netherlands, The

Can the protection of the European Union’s financial interests constitute a genuine force for integration, enabling Union law to bring about changes of constitutional significance to the integration project?

Sabrina Napolitano

université catholique de louvain la neuve, Belgium

The meaning and purpose of article 126 TFEU: a legal contribution to the multidisciplinary debates on EU economic governance

Marijn van der Sluis

Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands, The

Schmidt et al. (2025) The single market for services — why never-ending aspirations meet little progress

Susanne Schmidt, Jordy Weyns, Larissa Willamowski

University of Bremen, Germany

The capacity-building dilemma: managing competence-control tradeoffs in integration

Philipp Genschel¹, Markus Jachtenfuchs²

¹University of Bremen; ²Hertie School

Unpacking the Galaxy: The evolution of EU budgetary capacity

Yaning Zhang

Hertie School, Germany

A Shield for "Europeanness"? The European Bonds Debate in the (Post-)Pandemic Era

Tom Massart

Finance Watch, Belgium

THE EU’S TRANSITION TOWARD A BUDGETARY UNION

Martina Minardi

University of Bologna and University of Paris II Panthéon Assas, Italy

The Legal Boundaries of the EU’s Financial Support for Ukraine

Davide Genini

Dublin City University, Dublin

The law of growth and the protection of social rights in the EU

Louise Fromont

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Abstract IDEAS Conference

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

Governing Growth in the European Union: Building the EU’s Economic Government through Experimentation

Giulio D'Arrigo

European University Institute, Italy

Ideas of Growth: A Comparative Study of Political Parties’ Views on Economic and Sustainable Development

Fabio Battaglia¹, Gianmarco Fifi²

¹University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; ²University of California, Berkeley

The operationalisation of the EU’s water regulation framework across four Member States: mapping and explaining shifting and fragmented institutional designs

Katarzyna Aleksandra JANCEWICZ

Université de Liège, Belgium

Between Green Ambitions and Strategic Interests: Unpacking Policy (In)Coherence in EU Mineral Value Chain Regulation

Marta Paricio Montesinos

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium & University of Helsinki, Finland.

Reimagining the Economic Constitution of the EU: Resilience, Circularity, and the Pursuit of Sustainable Prosperity

Pauline Phoa, Sybe de Vries

Utrecht University, the Netherlands

The Competitive Impact of Environmental Standards on European Companies – Economic and Ecological Integration Through the Lens of Globalisation

Paco Jimenez

Université de Pau et des pays de l’adore, France

Failure or Resilience? Analysing cooperation patterns in European asylum governance

Philipp Stutz¹, Florian Trauner¹, Philipp Lutz²

¹Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium; ²Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Social Convergence or Divergence? Assessing the Distributive Impact of the EU's New Socio-Economic Governance

Marko Vidakusic^1,2

¹University of Rijeka, Croatia; ²Permanent Representation of the Republic of Croatia to the EU

Economic Democracy and Economic Security in an Operational Framework for Policy-Makers: Promoting Eudaimonic Well-being in the Wellbeing Economy

Stefano Turrini^1,3, Joscha Wirtz², Mario Biggeri³, Imke Schmidt¹

¹Wuppertal Institut, Germany; ²JXW Strategy & Operations; ³University of Florence

The Role of Social Partners in the Revamped EU Socio-Economic Governance Architecture

Peter Kerckhofs¹, Mario Munta²

¹Eurofound, Ireland; ²Faculty of Political Science of Zagreb University, Croatia

Legal Arguments Against Sufficiency Transformation: Is the Legal Architecture of the Common Agricultural Policy Really Incompatible with Sufficiency?

Myele Rouxel

University of Eastern Finland, Finland

New Paths to Environmental Sustainability: The ‘Do No Significant Harm’ as an Horizontal Principle in EU Governance

Leila Kentache

University of Torino, Italy

How Human Rights Principles Improve the Protection of Environment in the Context of Just Transition?

Alina Gentimir

University Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Romania

European economic policy faced with the imperative of individual happiness. A Legal viewpoint on a political misunderstanding

Frederic ALLEMAND

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

The Political Economy of Housing in the European Union: Crisis and Governance Beyond EU Competence

Paul Copeland

QMUL, United Kingdom

The Wealth Inequality of Real Estate: How Secondary Properties Undermine Pathways to Shared Prosperity in Europe

Pietro Valetto¹, Stefano Filauro², Ive Marx¹

¹Antwerp University, Belgium; ²L'Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

From Fragmentation to Framework: Towards Food Citizenship in the European Union

Jozsef Slezak

Central European University – Democracy Institute, Hungary

Prosperity Beyond Circularity: Degrowth and Pluriverse Urbanism for Europe’s Green Transition

Sara Boanini

University of Turin, Italy

Rearming Europe: Domestic Governance Ecosystems and the Demand for European Defence Integration

Antonio Calcara², Scott Hamilton¹, Dirk De Bièvre¹

¹University of Antwerp, Belgium; ²Vrij Universiteit Brussel

THE EU’s MUTUAL DEFENCE CLAUSE: LEGAL AND STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS ON ARTICLE 42(7) TEU IN AN AGE OF RENEWED MILITARY THREATS

Federica Fazio

Dublin City University, College of Europe

European state-building and integration compared: towards EU fiscal and military capacity development

Christakis Georgiou

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France

The Next MFF and EU’s defense spending: Integrating “European Public Goods” into the Union’s budgetary architecture

Rosalba Famà

Bocconi University, Italy

Strategic uncertainty as a stress test: Differentiated integration and democratic legitimacy in EU defence governance

Salma Rhilane

Youth policy center, Morocco

Industrial Policy through Skills Governance: A Study of the Political Economy of the EU’s Union of Skills

Alina Jasmin Felder-Stindt¹, Cecilia Ivardi Ganapini²

¹Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; ²University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Power Resources and the Politicisation of Unemployment during the ‘Golden Age’ of Social Europe

Stephen Gaffney

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Regulating grey zones: the EU’s traineeship directive and the limits of harmonization in labour law

Sven Schreurs

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Greening or Competing to Survive? International Pressures and Ideas in the EU’s Green Growth Strategy

Jane Arroyo

European University Institute, Italy

The New EU Industrial Policy: Evolving Governance Between Innovations and Constraints

Paolo Recaldini

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

The Politics and Practices of Joint Procurement in the European Union

Philipp Genschel, Jule Meyer

University of Bremen, Germany

European Financial Integration through Joint Procurement: Potential and Legal Challenges

Saverio Della Corte

European University Institute, Italy

International election observation and European democracy

Régis Dandoy

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

Rebalancing Voices: Making Digital Participation Travel Across Europe’s Governance Stack

Gianluca Sgueo

Brussels School of Governance, Belgium

Connecting citizens and the EU: How subnational mobilization shapes perceptions of democratic legitimacy

Gijs Giesen

Radboud University / The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The

The Governance of Truth in the Green Transition: Climate Disinformation, Greenwashing, and the Need for a New EU Framework to Safeguard Democratic Participation and Collective Prosperity.

Hugo Alexandre

N/A, Belgium