Throughout its history, the EU has been increasingly faced with crises and emergencies that have threatened its core values and required extraordinary responses, significantly affecting the EU’s institutional structures and policy-making. These challenges have touched upon a variety of areas and sectors, affecting, for example, the EU’s economic, migration, energy, and health policies.

EmergEU explores how the EU has responded to past crises and emergencies and assesses potential legal and policy changes to enhance the EU’s resilience. In doing so, EmergEU leverages the well-established CERiM network, which brings together lawyers, political scientists, social scientists, economists, and historians. 

EmergEU pursues the following objectives:

• conducting cutting-edge research and analysing crises and emergencies from an interdisciplinary perspective to achieve measurable and comparable results;

• conceptualising EU crisis and emergency action by assessing institutional challenges and identifying areas in need of reform;

• creating an inventory of the EU's toolbox for addressing crises and emergencies across different policy areas;

• drawing conclusions on how existing mechanisms should be reformed or adapted within the current legal and institutional framework;

• engaging with policymakers and the public to share research findings and insights.