Manuel Müller

Manuel Müller is a Senior Research Fellow in the The European Union and Strategic Competition research programme. The focus of his research is on supranational democracy and the institutional reform of the EU. His interests also include the EU as a community of law, the European public sphere, and narratives about the purpose and finality of supranational integration. Since 2011, Müller has been running the blog Der (europäische) Föderalist.

Müller studied Contemporary History and Spanish Philology in Bamberg, Granada and Berlin and completed his doctoral thesis at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Before joining FIIA, Müller worked at the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) in Berlin and at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He has also been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and at the University of Helsinki’s Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (Eurostorie). Since 2023, he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Horizon Europe project ActEU – Activating European Citizens’ Trust in Times of Crises and Polarisation.

Müller has published the monograph “Ein verpasster Verfassungsmoment: Der Vertrag von Maastricht und die europäische Öffentlichkeit” (2021) and co-edited the volumes “Konstitutionalisierung jenseits des Staates” (2012), “Communicating European Integration” (2014) and “Die Europawahl 2019: Ringen um die Zukunft Europas” (2020). His journalistic articles have appeared in Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, and Helsingin Sanomat, among others. Since 2023, he writes a regular column on the European political party landscape for Europe.Table.

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