If Brexit was the defining “constitutional moment” for the European Union in the second part of the last decade, what are the constitutional changes awaiting the Union, say, the next ten years? This article looks at this – speculative – question by exploring the Union’s potential future evolution alongside two dimensions: a horizontal dimension focusing on the widening or narrowing of its membership, and a vertical dimension exploring the deep...

The present text discusses the modern challenges that the European Union faces in the context of an international system that has shifted from unipolar, as a result of WWII and the Cold War, to a multipolar system, where regional actors have established themselves globally, enlarging their spheres of influence through military, energetic and economic capabilities. The 2008 financial crisis has caused many divisions within the Europe...