After the disastrous failure of the European ‘constitutional adventure’ in 2000-2005, European leaders and decision makers seemed to have definitely moved away from the federal idea. However, as the debt crisis broke out in Europe, a leap towards federalism was mentioned as a main solution for tackling a possible collapse of the Eurozone and of the EU as a whole. On one hand, numerous observers have pointed out that Europe has always been constructed in the midst of crises and that, when faced with malfunctioning if the EU, European leaders have always chosen to move closer towards integration. On the other hand, resistances towards federal integration have grown in national and European arenas alike. In the past, academic work on European federalism have often had a markedly prescriptive and normative dimension. The purpose of this session is to to consider, from an analytical perspective, whether we can discern, in the solutions promoted for tackling the crisis, the resurrection of European federalism or whether, on the contrary, the prospect of federalism seems more distant than ever. For doing so, the contributors to this panel examine federalism from various perspectives and articulate it with other theories of European integration.