Robert Schuman Centre

Research on the major challenges facing Europe and the World

News

EUI Up Front Nicolas Petit and Iva Nenadic

Big data, big money: talking trouble with Nicolas Petit and Iva Nenadić

In this #EUIUpFront conversation, Nicolas Petit, Head of the EUI Department of Law, and Iva Nenadić, Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, discuss the shifting balance of power between tech giants and the state, analysing the growing alignment between corporate platforms and political authority.

From letters to parcels: Insights from the Postal Conference

When a single email can span the globe in less than a second, one might wonder what is left to say about postal services. As it turns out, it is far more than expected, as shown by the engaged global community that gathers each year to explore the sector’s evolving role.

New global database supports research on trade and environmental measures

A new open-access database on environmentally-related non-tariff measures (NTMs) has been launched by Part-time Professor Fabio Santeramo at the Robert Schuman Centre, offering researchers and policymakers a structured tool to analyse trade policy and environmental protection.

How did the euro area navigate inflation and disinflation after the pandemic?

Philip R. Lane (ECB) delivers EMU Lab lecture on inflation and disinflation in the eurozone

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Events

12 June 2025

Seminar

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

Constitutional reforms and the competing risks of government falls

18 June 2025

Seminar

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

Book discussion: digitisation, copyright and the Law

18 June 2025

Online Debate

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

Flexibility and market integration to improve energy affordability and EU competitiveness

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Our faculty

Meet the full-time professors of the Robert Schuman Centre

About us

The Robert Schuman Centre is an inter-disciplinary research centre at the heart of the European University Institute (EUI). It was established in 1993 with the goal of developing cutting-edge, academic research and using that research to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders in the public and private sector.

Director

Erik Jones

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Executive Director

Ingo Linsenmann

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From energy regulation to migration, from media pluralism to banking and finance

Our nine research programmes address the key questions facing the European Union and its global role through both basic and policy-oriented research.

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Policy dialogue and training

A core objective of our mission is to engage actively with the world of practice through policy dialogue and executive training. We organise workshops, seminars and restricted roundtables, as well as executive training courses for academics and policy-makers. Some of our programmes have developed executive training courses in various niche areas, notably, banking and finance, regulation, media and communication and the judicial sphere.

Featured publication

A new leader for Europe? Shifting paradigms in Poland's EU policy

This report examines Poland's evolving role in the EU during its 2025 Presidency of the Council, highlighting its potential to address the Union's leadership challenges.

Michal Matlak

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Video Highlights

Roundtable | The US presidential elections: What comes next?

Reflexive communities | Patrizia Nanz | Yves Mény Lecture 2024

The Schuman Centre Research Agenda - Erik Jones