Congratulations to the 2026 Cohort of the Executive Master in EU Studies!

Two years came to a close after a lot of hard work, precious new friendships and eight big weekends spent together in Rome, Berlin, Nice, Vienna, Budapest, Brussels and Barcelona: Congratulations to the 2026 Cohort of the Executive Master in EU Studies, who concluded their studies with a workshop and a festive dinner on the beach in Nice!

The students defended their Master theses and presented their final papers to the jury, the panel of distinguished experts Ralf Kanitz, Nikolaus Scheffel, Tamás Szigetvári, Veronika Czina, Thomas Traguth and Wolfgang Wessels.

Their presentations tackled highly topical subjects such as:

• Anti-Corruption Infrastructure as EU Accession Conditionality: The Ukrainian Case
• The Republic of Moldova as a Regional Actor in the European Union’s Security Architecture
• Rule of Law Conditionality and Fundamental Rights Protection in the European Union: A New Layer of Multilevel Constitutionalism?
• EU Cohesion Policy, Job Creation and Integration of Migration: The Case of Less Developed Areas of Mezzogiorno of Italy
• Governance of Memory and the Enlargement of the European Union: A Comparative Analysis of Serbia and Croatia
• Recalibrating Layered Shelters: Denmark, EU Defence and US Claims Over Greenland After 2022
• Energy Dependency and Geopolitical Reorientation in the Republic of Moldova: The European Union’s Impact from Independence to the Present
• The EU Blue Card Directive and EU Competitiveness: Between Supranational Ambition and National Competence
• Knowing the Partner, Competitor and Rival: Mapping and Assessing the EU’s Policy Advisory System on China
• Made in Europe: The Legal Architecture of Preferential Conditions in EU Industrial Policy
• Institutional Integration and Interoperability in Cross-Border Risk Governance: Operationalising the EU Preparedness Union through Health and Civil Protection

On Saturday evening, students, professors and CIFE staff celebrated together at the beach. Matthias Waechter, Director General of CIFE, and Camille Raffin, Aline Palige and Auriane Jousse of the Executive Master team warmly congratulated the students. It was a lovely evening and a special occasion to look back on a two-year-long academic journey.

We thank our students for all their excellent work and their good vibes. We wish them all the best for their next professional endeavours!