Valentin Kreilinger

Valentin Kreilinger is a Senior Researcher in Political Science at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) specialising in EU Politics and Institutions. His main research interests are the evolution of the EU’s political system, reform and enlargement of the EU, differentiated integration, EU economic governance, and the role of national parliaments in the EU. He also works on German EU policies and Franco-German relations.

Before becoming a Senior Researcher at SIEPS, Valentin was a Research Fellow and Policy Fellow at the Jacques Delors network of think-tanks in Paris and Berlin from 2011 to 2020. In these roles, he was seconded to Berlin in 2013-14 to help set up the Jacques Delors Institut Berlin, now the Jacques Delors Centre of the Hertie School. He is a non-resident Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Parliamentary Studies at LUISS University in Rome. 

Valentin holds a PhD in Political Science from the Hertie School in Berlin. His dissertation focused on the role of national parliaments in EU economic governance. Valentin also holds an MSc in Politics and Government in the European Union from the London School of Economics. Previously, he studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. Valentin is an alumnus of the Max Weber Programm Bayern of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

Selection of recent publications

Germany votes – will its EU policy change?, SIEPS European Policy Analysis 2025:3epa.

A new political landscape: Europe after the elections (with Simon Hix and Göran von Sydow), SIEPS European Policy Analysis 2024:16epa.

Procedures, Politics, Policies: the pieces of the puzzle for the next institutional cycle of the EU, SIEPS European Policy Analysis 2024:6epa.

Fit for 35? Reforming the Politics and Institutions of the EU for an Enlarged Union (co-edited with Göran von Sydow), SIEPS Occasional Paper 2023:2op.

National Parliaments’ Political Dialogue with the European Commission, SIEPS European Policy Analysis 2023:6epa.

Making EU representative democracy fit for the future (co-edited with Göran von Sydow), SIEPS Occasional Paper 2022:2op.