The Journal of European Integration (Volume 39, Issue 2) has recently published a special issue on Political leadership in the EU. The special issue has open access until February 24th and includes papers on:

• Reconsidering Jacques Delors’ leadership of the European Union
• Setting Europe’s agenda: the Commission presidents and political leadership
• Policy leadership in the European Commission: the regulation of EU mobile roaming charges
• Leadership in the European Council: an assessment of Herman Van Rompuy’s presidency
• The standing president of the European Council: intergovernmental or supranational leadership?
• Transforming representative democracy in the EU? The role of the European Parliament
• Political leadership of the European Central Bank
• The paradoxes of legitimate EU leadership. An analysis of the multi-level leadership of Angela Merkel and Alexis Tsipras during the euro crisis
• Assessing the European Union’s global climate change leadership: from Copenhagen to the Paris Agreement

To read the special issue, please visit the JEI website. Short policy-briefs based on the articles may be found here.