Article by Michael Sommer published on Social Europe Journal, 22 May 2013 Proposal by the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) for an economic stimulus, investment and development programme for Europe. Read the article
Read more Date: 22 May 2013
Article by Niccoló Milanese published on Open Democracy, 20 May 2013 With so many conflicting interpretations of what post-crisis Europe should look like, it is easy to forget that another Europe will only come by reconciling the people across the continent, through initiatives and institutions that sew up a broken social fabric. Read the article
Read more Date: 21 May 2013
Article by Barbara Spinelli published on La Repubblica and translated in English by Julian Hale and published on Presseurop, 17 May 2013 The EU is becoming a corrupt church where Germany rules by a dogmatic economic orthodoxy. Politics must take back control with a protestant schism coming from grassroots initiatives, argues an Italian columnist. Read [...]
Read more Date: 20 May 2013
Article by Charlemagne published on The Economist, 17 May 2013 Europe waits as Angela Merkel faces a new anti-establishment party. Read the article
Read more Date: 17 May 2013
Article by Georg Vobruba published on Open Democracy, 15 May 2013 Creating a common currency area means replacing indifference by cooperation and conflict. In this sense the Eurozone crisis might not be a deadly challenge to the whole European construct, but rather become a further step towards a European society. Read the article
Read more Date: 16 May 2013
Interview with George Soros by published on Project Syndicate, 15 May 2013 I have been very concerned about Europe. The euro is in the process of destroying the European Union. To some extent, this has already happened, in the sense that the EU was meant to be a voluntary association of equal states. The crisis [...]
Read more Date: 15 May 2013
Article by Ian Traynor published on The Guardian, 14 May 2013 Poll results underline the sense of estrangement between Paris and Berlin as the two countries’ economic prospects diverge. Read the article
Read more Date: 14 May 2013
Article by Mark Leonard and Hans Kundnani published on Foreign Policy, May-June 2013 Sure, it may seem as if Europe is down and out. But things are far, far better than they look. Read the article
Read more Date: 13 May 2013
Article published by Etienne Balibar on Open Democracy, 6 May 2013 Simply put, ‘another Europe’ must be able to suggest alternatives that make sense to the majority of the citizens across the continent. Read the article
Read more Date: 10 May 2013
Article by Niall Ferguson published on Presseurop and Il Sole 24 Ore, 9 May 2013 Constructed on economic, political and geopolitical criteria, the EU must be judged by the same criteria. And the verdict of the British historian Niall Ferguson is final. Read the article
Read more Date: 9 May 2013
Vesco Paskalev In the latest act of the absurdist drama that unfolded after the Bulgarian government resigned amidst massive protests earlier this year, the former prime minister Boyko Borisov just announced that his party (GERB) has won the elections on 12 May and that it will appeal to the Constitutional Court for their annulment because [...]
Read more Date: 21 May 2013
Carlos Closa Revision of the EU Treaties is back on the agenda following the economic and financial crisis. And yet, little attention has been devoted to the possibilities of attaining revision following the current formal rules. Failures of EU Treaty ratifications are normally associated with their substantive contents: domestic ratifying actors may defect because of [...]
Read more Date: 20 May 2013
Andrew Geddes ‘Relaxed’ may not seem the best word to characterise British relations with the EU, but is the condition to which Prime Minister David Cameron seems to aspire. In July 2012 he said that he favours British membership, but also that: ‘we should not be frightened of a variable Europe, with variable countries involved [...]
Read more Date: 30 April 2013
Duncan McDonnell Close to nine million people voted for the Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S – Five-Star Movement) in the Italian general election on 24 and 25 February. More than anyone – pollsters, mainstream politicians and probably even Beppe Grillo himself – had expected. It was an extraordinary result. From under 5 per cent in opinion [...]
Read more Date: 17 April 2013
Dimitry Kochenov Until very recently only a handful of scholars, including, most importantly, Gareth Davies, Dora Kostakopoulou, Eleanor Spaventa, and Joseph Weiler, among very few others addressed the development of EU citizenship in a somewhat less conventional way than the majority of peers. This resulted in a situation where a potentially omnipotent concept, crucial for [...]
Read more Date: 26 March 2013
Paolo Ponzano L’initiative citoyenne instaurée par l’art. 11 du Traité de Lisbonne est entrée en vigueur le 1er Avril 2012*. Cet outil de démocratie participative permet dorénavant à un million de citoyens européens, pourvu qu’ils soient ressortissants d’au moins sept États membres de l’Union, de demander à la Commission européenne la présentation d’une proposition de [...]
Read more Date: 27 February 2013
Lorenzo De Sio The upcoming Italian general elections (to be held on Feb 24th and 25th) appear as an important appointment for the future developments of EU politics. Will Italy keep pursuing its politics of budget balance, or will uncontrolled deficit spending reappear, challenging the stability of the Euro? Will Italy emerge back as a [...]
Read more Date: 11 February 2013
Paul Statham When the EU’s elite embarked on Constitution-making, their intention was to make the European Union into a meaningful political community. In the end, these good intentions failed, not least because they were famously rejected by the French and Dutch people in referendums in 2005. Nonetheless, controversies in the Constitution failure sowed the seed [...]
Read more Date: 1 February 2013
Anne Elizabeth Stie If, hypothetically, all European Union (EU) citizens were asked to actually give their consent to legislative acts stemming from the Union, what kind of conditions must such a decision-making procedure ensure in order to make it likely that citizens will find such acts acceptable and thus legitimate constraints on their actions? The [...]
Read more Date: 25 January 2013
Heinrich Best Heinrich Best summarizes for EUDO Café the core argument of his recent book: The Europe of Elites. A Study into the Europeanness of Europe’s Political and Economic Elites edited by Heinrich Best, György Lengyel, and Luca Verzichelli Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012 There is a strong case to be made for taking the ‘Europe [...]
Read more Date: 17 January 2013