Shall criticized of its democratic deficit Brussels guard the democracy in the EU states? Would that mean the threat of paneuropean paternalism? What kind of sanctions and instruments of pressure it could use?
The rise of anti-EU populism in both European South and North and the dramatic decrease of trust into the EU among the citizens – how the new instruments of Eurozone governance could stop lacking democratic legitimacy?
Would the Russian domestic policy and the last year’s return of Vladimir Putin to the president’s office have an impact on Russian foreign policy? If so, how would it change relations between Russia and the European Union?
Will the Eurozone become the real European Union in a few years with the rest of the EU member states forming just a periphery of Europe’s core? What will this core look like and which rules will it apply?