The JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2020

Including specially commissioned articles and produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Review, covers the key developments in the European Union, its member states, and acceding and/or applicant countries in 2020.

• Written by leading experts in their respective fields covering a wide array of political, economic and legal issues
• The Annual Review is the most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for practitioners, scholars, students and researchers of European integration as well as for general readers who simply want to know more about the European Union and have a pluralism of voices
• This year, a set of articles analyse various aspects of the Covid-19 crisis and of the EU responses to it: institutional, political economic and medical
• Includes a longer-term analysis and reflection on emergency politics in the EU, as well as a piece on how the Black Lives Matter movement developed in Europe
• Other contributions focus on the impact of the public health crisis on new policies, such as the recently launched European Green Deal
• The external dimension of the EU is covered by contributions analyzing the Belarusian crisis, the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, and the EUs relationships with the US and with China