With regard to issues concerning European integration and processes of integration in other regions of the world, the following research priorities are pursued by the Directors of the Institute for European Integration:
- Integration, Enlargement, Association
- The European Single Market
- European Fundamental Rights Protection
- Economic Governance within the Eurozone
- European Competition Policy
- Constitution and Administration of the EU
- Theory and Policy of Cohesion
- The Adaptation of Competition Rules in the new and future Member States as well as their Neighbouring Countries to the Law of the EU