A key trend in European politics since the 1990s has been the delegation of important policymaking responsibilities to unelected decision-makers such as independent agencies and supranational actors.

The invasion of Ukraine has once again brought the issue of European Union enlargement to the fore.

How often and how intensively are administrative structures inside central governments created, split up, merged and reformed by hierarchically shifting them, changing their names or even abolishing them?

The rise of the largest crime organisation in South America analysed by Gabriel Feltran, Researcher Director at Sciences Po.

Federico Varese joined the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics as a Professor of Sociology in February 2023, following a distinguished career at the University of Oxford where he held the position of Sociology Department Chair.

In early 2023, as the reform project for the pension system being debated in the French parliament generates significant social mobilization, Bruno Palier, CNRS research director in political science, reflects on the history and evolution of pension systems in Europe, as well as the French welfare state through the prism of gender.

La pandémie de Covid-19 a mis en évidence à quel point les processus de propagation affectent nos vies en profondeur. Mais elle révèle aussi comment se propagent des informations, des consignes, des rumeurs...