Roberto Castaldi

TL;DR: The first attempt at politicizing the European elections occurred in 2014 and its main pillar was the selection and indication of party candidates to the post of Commission president by the main European political parties and groups as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the interpretative scheme "crisis-initiative-leadership" developed with reference to the European unification process as a whole to the current crisis to analyse if and how the crises are being exploited by adequate initiative and leadership in the EU.

TL;DR: The Center for Studies on Federalism (CSF) as discussed by the authors is a new interdisciplinary journal that considers federalism from different disciplinary, geographic, and theoretical perspectives, focusing on institutional arrangements and potentially federalising processes at all levels of government.