EURINT 2024 | Debating Europe: new approaches, action tools and integration scenarios 24-25 May, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi The European Union has been a successful story for many decades, despite the crises it has faced over time, becoming in years a pole of attraction for other European countries. In general, crises have generated a sense of deepening integration, and the enlargements from EU6 to EU27 were seen as a natural dynamic of the "(re)integration" of the European continent, strengthening, with each stage, the EU power and relevance in the international order. The synergies between the deepening and the widening mechanisms encouraged to look for a federal future of the EU as an “ever-closer union”, a “hard core” of regional and global cooperation, and as a real economic and political power.

Covering these topics the 2024 EURINT conference aims to facilitate interdisciplinary debates, bringing together scholars, policymakers, practitioners and experts for critical thinking and find ways for EU as an integrative power in a flexible perspective of alternatives scenarios of enlargement and governance patterns. We look forward to receiving your contributions and to welcome you in an atmosphere of academic excellence and friendship, in Iasi, a wonderful city during the month of May, located in the Eastern border of the EU, to connect our ideas, aspirations and solutions to a common future.