EGPP Annual Conference 2026

• Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
• EGPP: European Governance and Politics Programme

Join the annual conference of the European Governance and Politics Programme, featuring the inaugural Brigid Laffan Lecture.

Europe faces mounting pressures from within and beyond its borders. Rising polarization, democratic backsliding, shifting global cleavages, and successive crises are testing the foundations of European governance and the resilience of solidarity among member states and citizens. The EGPP Annual Conference 2026 brings together research from across the programme as a showcase of all projects currently running under the EGPP umbrella. Drawing on ongoing and completed projects – spanning affective polarization, European solidarity, crisis governance and pandemic recovery, voter information and Voting Advice Applications, EU enlargement and global risks to EU security, transnational identities and group politics, gender and political violence, and the political economy of the climate and creative transitions – the conference offers a panoramic view of European politics and governance under stress. It combines experimental interventions, large-scale surveys, comparative party and electoral analysis, and historical perspectives on global cleavage structures, bringing together the methodological breadth that defines the EGPP. The conference features the inaugural Brigid Laffan Lecture, delivered by Brigid Laffan herself, and a policy roundtable bringing external voices into dialogue on the future of European integration and democratic resilience.

At the EUI and the Robert Schuman Centre, we are dedicated to removing barriers and providing equal opportunities for everyone. Please indicate in the registration form your accessibility needs, if any. Alternatively, you can contact the logistics organiser of the event.