By Brandon Restrepo, Max Weber Fellow in ECO 2012-2013 Children who, at birth, weigh in at below 2500 grams – the medical definition of a low birth weight outcome – have been shown to do less well than normal birth weight children in a variety of domains. For example, low birth weight children do less […]

By Giuseppe Martinico, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales, Madrid Spain (Max Weber Fellow in Law 2010-2011) On 17 October 2012 Angela Merkel advocated the introduction of a sort of EU veto over national budgets, and her statements produced a haughty reaction from many European leaders, in primis, François Hollande, while Prime Minister David […]

By Arthur Dyevre, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany (Max Weber Fellow in Law, 2007-2008) The European Union is already in the grip of the most severe economic and financial crisis of the continent’s post-war history. But as if the Euro-crisis were not enough, it would […]

By Mariano Barbato, Lecturer at the University of Passau, Germany (Max Weber Fellow in the SPS Department, 2007-2008) Coming to the Babes Bolyai University (BBU) in Cluj-Napoca/Romania as a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), I was invited to establish a new interdisciplinary research centre aimed particularly at the university’s German-speaking community, and with an […]

By Igor Guardiancich, Post-doctoral Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto  The academic year 2011-12 marked the 6th anniversary of the Max Weber Post-doctoral Programme (MWP) of the European University Institute (EUI), the largest post-doctoral programme in the social sciences in Europe. Due to its size and increasing popularity – circa 40 Fellows are being admitted each year, out of […]