Why Continue Editing Politique européenne?

Why should we continue publishing a journal dealing with European policies and politics? Why, in particular, should we do so in French? How to combine abelief in open access to research results with a sustainable economic model that allows for producing the journal? How to respond to the crucial objective of the professionalisatisation of scientific editing in an area where human resources inuniversities are increasingly scarce? These are the questions raised in this introduction to the 50th anniversary special issue of Politique européenne, which offers the occasion for revisiting the journals history as well as its editorial practices.