Varia No 55, 2017/1 - 158 pagesPages 8 to 35How the Commission fills in the blanks of the European SemesterBy Pierre VanheuverzwijnVariaPages 36 to 59The greening of European water policy, experimental governance and policy learningBy Gabrielle BouleauPages 60 to 85‘Same, same, but different’By Clément Jadot, Camille KelbelPages 86 to 115“Regrettably, it seems that breaking one border causes others to tumble”By Veronika ValkovičováPages 116 to 142Transposing the Fifth RepublicBy Pierre HarocheReadingsPages 144 to 151Amandine Crespy, Welfare Markets in Europe. The Democratic Challenge of European Integration, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 278 pages.By Clémence LedouxPages 152 to 156Samuel B. H. Faure, Défense européenne. Émergence d’une culture stratégique commune, Outremont, Éditions Athéna, 2016, 236 pages.By Jean Joana