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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(3/n) For an institution that is often accused of lacking democratic accountability - the #EuropeanCouncil is not accountable to any other EU institution - reporting happens via national channels.

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(2/n) We find several differences, formal and informal ones; but once an external crisis hits the EU, we find convergence in the extent and way of reporting.

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨 happy to share a new publication! Together with Antonia Dambach, we look at how members of the #EuropeanCouncil - heads of government - report about their joint activities back home. (1/n)

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Very happy to see our review article on the realization of Next Generation EU now published online and open access in #JEPP, the Journal of European Public Policy 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Co-authored with @tizianozgaga.bsky.social

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

🎆 The special issue on "European Integration in the Geopolitical Age" is out! Discover all articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3... Guest editors: @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Our new book on the #EuropeanCouncil has a cover 😍 With 16 new or revised chapters, it introduces the emergence, foundations, activities, and shortcomings of this pivotal institution The book will become available in October, you can already pre-order it here 👇 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/european-...

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

4/4 👉 Breaking a promise made earlier is not how an institution that relies so much on trust, informal norms and commitment can function. If the other national leaders let the Orbán tactics prevail, #EUCO might end up in paralysis - and with it EU policymaking more broadly

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

3/4 👉 Here, Orbán earlier in March did something unprecedented: He stepped back from a promise he had made in December last year, namely, not to block the EU‘s support package for Ukraine, which would not cause financial liabilities for Hungary anyways

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

2/4 👉 Tough bargaining, the pursuit of national interests, and veto threats have always been part of #EUCO politics. However, for #EUCO to remain effective, leaders must exercise self-restraint in not exaggerating domestic problems and exploiting the goodwill of others

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The #EuropeanCouncil earlier this month ended with Orbán blocking the EU‘s €90bn package for Ukraine. So good, so normal (unfortunately). But something is different with this latest #EUCO blockage, I argue in this new piece for Verfassungsblog verfassungsblog.de/a-deal-is-a-... Three takeaways:

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A Deal Is a Deal

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Ever wondered how the #EuropeanUnion would look like without the #EuropeanCouncil? In this piece for @foederalist.eu, I do some counterfactual analysis: how EU policymaking and interinstitutional relations might work without #EUCO www.foederalist.eu/2026/03/chef...

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“Chefsache” no more: What the European Union would look like without the European Council

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Bilateralism in multilateralism: France-Germany in Europe and the interlinking of institutional forms in Regional Order and World Politics' by Ulrich Krotz & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/SFPCtBZ @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

(3/3) Empirically, we show how Franco-German bilateralism shaped and advanced multilateral European politics in three pivotal episodes: the British budgetary rebate question, the end of the Cold War, and the Covid-19 pandemic. The article is open access 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

(2/3) We first theorize and conceptualize the three different forms of bilateralism and/versus/in multilateralism. We then examine a particularly prominent form of bilateralism in multilateralism: Franco-German relations in European integration

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🚨 New publication out in #BJPIR (British Journal of Politics and International Relations) How do bilateral and other minilateral relations between a small group of countries, on the one hand, and multilateral politics in a regional or global organization, on the other, relate to each other? (1/3)

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The Economist's coverage over seven decades is amazing, because it reveals many insider information and also critically discusses the shortcomings of this institution. Find my blog post for the ECPR's The Loop series 👇 theloop.ecpr.eu/what-the-eco...

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

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...

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Originally designed as fireside chats to discuss a limited number of high politics issues in confidential atmosphere, European Council meetings have turned into major media events that cover all aspects of EU policymaking. (3/4)

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I scraped and analyzed all relevant articles from the #Economist magazine that deal with the European Council or with the "intergovernmental summits" - as the meetings were called prior to 1975 - for the entire period 1958-2025. (2/4)

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The European Council #EUCO today comes together for an informal summit on EU competitiveness. Ever wondered how this institution has evolved since its creation in 1975 and how informed observers have assessed its role? (1/4)

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European Political Science @epsjournal.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

❇️ FirstView - 🔍 Research @lucasschramm91.bsky.social analyses the European Council as a key actor in the EU’s multi-level and multi-institutional system of governance. 👉 buff.ly/SuulDLL

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The European Council turns 50: Studying and analyzing a key institution of the European Union

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our article provides a framework for the study of “externalism“. Opening avenues for future research, it suggests an explicit and systematic study of external pressures for the EU's institutional and policy trajectory. Find the entire article open access 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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External Actors, Pressures and Influences: European Integration and the Outside World

The European Union (EU) increasingly faces external pressures, ranging from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine to an economically and politically assertive China to deep changes in the transa....

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🚨 new publication alert The European Union increasingly faces external pressures. Whilst external pressures always mattered for European integration and EU studies, this article holds that they are more consequential today than in the past.

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

How can and should we study an important yet largely inaccessible institution like the #EuropeanCouncil? In a new article, published in #EuropeanPoliticalSciene, I present key data, paradoxes and research avenues 50 years after its creation. The article is available open access 👇 h7.cl/1n6zx

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The European Council turns 50: Studying and analyzing a key institution of the European Union

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 19/01/2026

#OpenAccess from @epsjournal.bsky.social - The European Council turns 50: Studying and analyzing a key institution of the European Union - cup.org/3LI9FvV - @lucasschramm91.bsky.social #FirstView

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

This article marks the completion of our #JEPP special issue on the geopolitics of European integration 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The article introduces our distinct outside-in perspective, theorising how external geopolitical pressures affect EU internal policymaking dynamics 🇪🇺

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LSE European Institute @lse-ei.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🇪🇺 In their new research, @mkleine.bsky.social and @lucasschramm91.bsky.social analyse decision-making and norm enforcement in the European Council, the leaders' club and one of the most important - yet vulnerable - EU institutions. Discover it below 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

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Taming of the shrews? The (non-)enforcement of informal norms in the European Council

The European Council is arguably one of the European Union’s (EU) most dynamic decision-making bodies. Both scholars and practitioners attribute its effectiveness to an informal norm of diffuse…

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

💪 Please send your abstract (~500 words) by December 15th, 2025 to lucas.schramm@gsi.uni-muenchen.de or christian.lequesne@sciencespo.fr and reach out directly if you have any questions

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

💡 The special issue will be published next year in Négociations / Negotiations, a French-English bilingual journal dedicated to a profound understanding of negotiations, strategies, and interactions: shs.cairn.info/journal-nego...

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🚨 Call for papers 👉 With Christian Lequesne (Sciences Po Paris), I am co-editing a special issue on EU Enlargement and Neighborhood Policies. We invite contributions looking at negotiation processes between EU institutions, Member State perspectives, and interactions with candidate countries.

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

normatively, this study demonstrates that the European Council - despite the national veto power - is not doomed to failure. Rather, it depends on its members sticking to and enforcing key norms of cooperation.

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

empirically, we conduct two case studies where an individual member arguably violated cooperation norms: David Cameron in the run-up to the Brexit referendum by asking for too many concessions, and Viktor Orbán in the EU's assistance to Ukraine by refusing to show goodwill.

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

theoretically, we formulate expectations for when, why and how the majority of European Council members looks for ways to bypass a norm violator in their own ranks. We argue that they do so if domestic costs become prohibitively high.

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

We analyze norm enforcement in the European Council, one of the EU’s most important institutions. Our focus is the norm of diffuse reciprocity: the European Council only functions if its members are prepared to make concessions. We make three contributions to existing literature:

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Today marks the start of our new winter term at #LMU I will again be teaching one of my favourite seminars: “Franco-German relations in the European Union“ has an updated syllabus. This time we will be looking more closely into crisis politics and the domestic challenges in both countries.

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Excited to have started the new academic year at the #College of Europe in Bruges - my Alma Mater - for the first time as visiting professor. I am co-teaching a course on the #EuropeanCouncil, using as a basis our forthcoming book. Happy to meet old and news friends!

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Very excited about this moment! I am about to submit our #bookmanuscript on the #EuropeanCouncil to the publisher. Off now to the competent hands of @bloomsburypol.bsky.social

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

4/n My argument and findings have implications for the current debates about an EU competitiveness plan and joint funding, notably for security and defence

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

3/n I probe the plausibility of this argument by analyzing two recent crises - the Covid-19 pandemic and the energy emergency - and document typical patterns of Germany‘s EU fiscal politics

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

2/n - a general national tendency to act as status quo power that is largely satisfied with the current supranational setting vs. - appeals by other EU countries and the felt need to promote supranational polity stability, especially during crises

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

New article out in German Politics and Society! www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... I develop a theoretical argument and mechanism about Germany‘s approach towards EU fiscal politics, based on two countervailing forces: 1/n

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Alexander Schilin-König @aschilin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Publication Alert 📝 New article with @lucasschramm91.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social It contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of differentiation in the EU. Case studies from EMU & Schengen show how issue-specific incentives lead to atypical integration patterns.

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

2/2 We offer a more nuanced understanding of differentiated integration in the European Union, showing that de facto differentiation has been more integrative in the Eurozone whilst more disintegrative in the Schengen area than what de jure differentiated integration suggests

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Very happy to see this article with #AlexSchilin out open access in #WestEuropeanPolitics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/2

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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

3/3 - Co-author of a paper on norm contestation inside the European Council (Saturday 1:30pm) Looking forward to meeting old and new friends in Philadelphia!

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