Luuk van Middelaar
Senior Research Associate
Associates are experts in their own field and contractually affiliated with Clingendael.
Although associates are not employees of the Clingendael Institute, they comply with all policies that Clingendael staff do.
Expertise
- Europe in the World
- Europe and the EU
- COVID-19
- China Centre
Regions
- Europe
- The Netherlands
Luuk van Middelaar (1973) is a political theorist and historian. He is a professor of EU law at Leiden University and a political commentator for NRC Handelsblad and De Standaard.
The author of the prizewinning The Passage to Europe, he was the chief speechwriter and a close advisor to European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (2010-2014). Van Middelaar published his first book, Politicide, in 1999. His most recent book is Alarums & Excursions:Improvising Politics on the European Stage, also out in French and Dutch. Since 2018, he is member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs and the Chair of its Commission on European Integration (CEI).
See also https://luukvanmiddelaar.eu/bio
Follow @LuukvMiddelaar on Twitter.
