The European Union is a main focus of HSoG research and comprises various policy fields and public administration. Research projects and publications of HSoG faculty with direct relevance for the EU are presented below.

Projects
• The EU Budget (Henrik Enderlein)
• Industrial Relations Report 2008 (Anke Hassel)
• The Policy Ideas and Practice of Active Ageing: Political, Economical, and Cultural Challenges in Europe (Stein Kuhnle)
• European Paths to Good Governance (Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Folke Schuppert)
• Comparative Rule of Law Indicators in EU Accession and New Member Countries (Alina Mungiu-Pippidi)
• The Politics of Better Regulation Policy in Europe (Kai Wegrich)

Publications

• Anke Hassel, Alison L. Johnston, and Bettina Wagner: "Wage Setting, Minimum Wages, and Industrial Relations" (Chapter 3), in: Industrial Relations in Europe 2008. Report for the European Commission, 2009.
• Iain Begg, Henrik Enderlein, Jacques Le Cacheux, and Mojmir Mrak: Financing of the EU Budget. Report for the European Commission, 2008
• Jürgen von Hagen, Mark Hallerberg, and Rolf Strauch: Fiscal Governance: Evidence from Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Anke Hassel: "Policies and Politics of Social Pacts in Europe", in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, forthcoming 2009.
• Alina Mungiu-Pippidi: "Europeanization Meets Transformation", in: Waves and troughs of Postcommunist Reform, chapter in Valerie Bunce, Michael A. McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Alina Mungiu-Pippidi: Ottomans into Europeans. The Limits of Institutional Transfer, London: Hurst, 2009.
• Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, "EU Accession Is No 'End of History'", Journal of Democracy, Vol. 18, Issue 4, October, 2007, pages 8-16, 2007.