JCMS

by Matti Ylönen (Academy of Finland Research Fellow; Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki) A few years ago, the idea of the Brussels effect took the European Union (EU) circles by storm as an exciting new framework for understanding the global exemplary impact of the EU rules. Now, it faces tumultuous waters as Donald […]

by Dr Caroline Emberson (Nottingham University Business School and the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab) New research, recently published in JCMS, examines the detection of labour exploitation within domestic care services. In the article, I identify a range of municipal activities including whistleblowing procedures; care-worker professionalisation; the expansion of employee’s roles and inter-agency data analysis. […]

by Dr Nicole Scicluna (Hong Kong Baptist University) As we pass the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU continues to deal with the many challenges to which the conflict has given rise. An overarching challenge is that of maintaining unity of purpose and of action – a task that becomes more […]

by Max Koch (Lund University) The European Union is close to my heart. Without European integration I could not have worked and lived in three member states – Germany, Northern Ireland (at the time a member) and Sweden – which turned out to be an irreplaceable part of my development as a scholar and human […]

by Paul Reimers (the German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer) What is the role of regional parliaments in EU decision-making? This question gained momentum in response to the introduction of the Lisbon Treaty, which strengthened parliaments in the EU and ‘opened a crack in the door’ for regional participation in legislative proceedings. Notably, regional parliaments […]