The State of the European Union. The European Parliament faces its most important elections yet

Table of contents 9 Prologue. The future of Europe Josep Borrell Fontelles 13 Introduction Gero Maass and Diego López Garrido 17 Spain before a new European political cycle José Candela and Carlos Carnero 25 More just. More social. Less unequal. What Germans expect from Europe Frieder Schmid and Martha Posthofen 33 Emmanuel Macron: the end of an exception Thierry Pech 39 Portugal. Uncertainty and diversity Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins 45 Right-wing populism in the EU: a threat to the integration process Klaus Busch 57 The difficult road towards a necessary European Federal Union José Enrique de Ayala 69 The challenge of European citizenship: freedom, participation, welfare and culture Domènec Miquel Ruiz Devesa 73 2018: a year of slow progress in eurozone reform Víctor Echeverría 83 Social Europe – naming the myth, preserving the model and taking concrete action Gero Maass and María Pallares