Lucas Schramm is a postdoctoral researcher at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of political science at LMU Munich. His research interests concern European integration history and theory and EU crisis politics.

Chiara Terranova is a PhD candidate at the professorship for European integration and European politics at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. She is interested in European Union governance and institutions, with a specific focus on EU budgetary politics.

David Bokhorst is a political economy scholar at the European University Institute in Florence, his research focuses on welfare state reforms, qualitative policy analysis and EU economic governance. He is co-editor of forthcoming book on welfare state reform in ten European Member States and is involved in various studies on European economic governance and welfare state reforms under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility. David obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam with a dissertation on the governance of macroeconomic imbalances in the euro area. He has also acted as scientific advisor on European economic and financial policy in the Dutch national parliament.