Projects
Dutch, Polish and Swedish debating styles in the European Parliament; An analysis of differences and similarities. KU Leuven
Private International Law and International Corporate Mobility: Directive (EU) 2019/2121 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Directive (EU) 2017/1132 as regards cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions University of Antwerp
The European Parliament Parallel Intermodal Corpus Ghent (EPPIC-G) Ghent University
This project aims at (1) enlarging an existing interpreting corpus of around 220.000 words, compiled at Ghent University and storing it in EXMARaLDA; (2) tranforming it into a parallel intermodal corpus by adding the corresponding translations, and (3) making the data available and searchable through a web interface.
Voting Behaviour of Belgian Members of European Parliament (2004-2009). University of Antwerp
The European Parliament’s position on international trade: a topic modeling and discourse-theoretical approach Ghent University
The proposed research project aims to study variation in in the European Parliament’s decision-making on international trade using a discourse-theoretical approach. We will first map discursive variation on international trade through topic modeling. Next, two case studies will explain instances of variation through analysis of the extra-parliamentary discourses to which parliamentarian were exposed via media, informal political contacts ...
The right to social security in the European Union: a comparative analysis on the basis of the constitutional traditions common to the EU Member States, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter. KU Leuven
The outbreak of the financial and economic crisis had a severe impact on national economies worldwide, including those of the member states of the European Union (EU). Several EU member states with financial difficulties received financial support by the EU institutions. In return, they were obliged to reduce public spending and as a result, national social security systems were drastically reformed. Since the financial and economic crisis, ...
The Transparency-Secrecy Trade-off in European Union Trade Policy: Explaining Informalisation and Transparency in EU Decision-making on International Negotiations. KU Leuven
There exists today a wide-spread belief that decision-making in the European Union (EU) mainly takes place behind closed-doors, in secret backrooms and informal conversation in the corridors. In the case of EU trade policy, a perception of secretiveness due to the widespread use of informality has sparked extensive criticism from both public and parliamentary actors. At the same time however, the European Commission (Commission) as the main ...
Multi-layered Polities and the Search for the Common Good: A Constitutional Puzzle for the European Polis. University of Antwerp
The European Union and the information gap: a political science analysis of the decisionmaking process and the autonomy of the Directorate-General Communication Ghent University
This study examines decionmaking processes of the Directorate-General Communication of the European Commission from a Principal Agent perspective. The analysis focuses on the level of autonomy this DG has in its policy- and decisionmaking and in what way the powerrelations between this DG and other actors, such as the European Parliament and the memberstates, influence this autonomy.