Abstract Since the Lisbon Treaty, European Parliament (EP) has considerably increased its competencies in Union (EU) trade policy. At same time, a ‘new generation’ of free agreements (FTAs), including Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with United States, Comprehensive Economic Agreement (CETA) Canada, agreement Japan, have been negotiated by Commission. Although existing lit...

At the turn of century, both academics and practitioners anticipated Europeanization national politics political parties. One major expectation was that parties would adapt their organisation behaviour to existence EU functioning its institutions. However, early 2000s poured cold water on those expectations: slacking politicization affairs, it concluded, created few incentives for adapt, so the...

In this article, we argue that two significant shifts, namely, the blurring of lives offline and online increasing significance visual character these lives, pose new challenges to social science research methods. We propose application snap-along ethnography address challenges. Snap-along is an ethnographic method with three core features: (1) participant observation conducted simultaneously o...