Barber, Tony, (2017), “Europe starts to think the unthinkable: breaking up”, Financial Times, 2 Μαρτίου As an illustration of the EU’s doubts about its destiny, Jean-Claude Juncker’s white paper on Europe’s future fitted the bill nicely. Unveiled on Wednesday, the European Commission president’s document contained no fewer than five scenarios for the EU’s evolution up to 2025: “carrying on”, “nothing but the single market”, “those who want more do more”, “doing …Read More

Emmott, Bill, (2017), “Populism Versus Prosperity”, Project Syndicate, 9 Μαρτίου Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front, claims that the twenty-first century’s defining battle will be between patriotism and globalism. US President Donald Trump appears to believe that it will be between “the very fake news media” and himself, backed by “the people” he claims to represent. They are both wrong. The battle that will actually define …Read More

Schmidt, Vivien, Wood, Matt, (2017), “The EU’s new white paper underlines why Europe needs to be more open to its citizens”, LSE EUROPP, 10 Μαρτίου At the start of March, the European Commission published a white paper ‘On the Future of Europe’. Vivien Schmidt and Matt Wood assess the Commission’s proposals, arguing that while the paper’s focus on differentiated integration is pragmatically useful under the current circumstances, this strategy could …Read More

Bershidsky, Leonid, (2017), “Europe’s Populists Aren’t the Threat You Think”, BloombergView, 7 Μαρτίου For more than a year, the big scare out of Europe has been that populist movements, often far-right and euroskeptic, would win elections across the continent. But electoral landscapes are shifting fast, and it’s time to consider a different scenario — in which the populists lose everywhere. Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις Gros, Daniel, (2017), “Can the EU survive in …Read More