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Party Attitudes towards the EU in the Member States – Parties for Europe, Parties against Europe

Conti, N. (ed.) (2014) “Party Attitudes towards the EU in the Member States – Parties for Europe, Parties against Europe“, Routledge Advances in European Politics, Routledge Publications: United Kingdom.   In a moment where the EU is facing an important number of challenges, there is growing interest in understanding how parties influence the way Europe evolves as a political issue, notably how parties structure domestic competition over European issues and …Read More

Manufacturing Europe’s Future

Veugelers, R. (ed.), (2013), Manufacturing Europe’s Future, Brussels: Bruegel. ‘Industrial policy is back!’ This is the message given in the European Commission’s October 2012 communication on industrial policy (COM(2012) 582 final), which seeks to reverse the declining role of the manufacturing industry, and increase its share of European Union GDP from about 16 percent currently to above 20 percent. Historical evidence suggests that the goal is unlikely to be achieved. …Read More

Recapturing the Reluctant Radical: how to win back Europe’s populist vote

Fieschi, C., Morris, M. and Caballero, L., (2012), Recapturing the Reluctant Radical: how to win back Europe’s populist vote, London: Counterpoint. Support for right-wing populism in Europe has steadily gained attention from media and policymakers over the past decade. Most of this attention, however, has been focused on the core supporters of right-wing populist parties (RPPs) – the members and the street activists – at the expense of the topic …Read More

Progressive Politics After the Crash: Governing from the Left

Cramme, O., Diamond, P. and McTernan, M. eds., (2013), Progressive Politics After the Crash: Governing from the Left, London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd. Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed. It is not only the irrationality of markets which is the focus of public discontent, but the inefficiency of …Read More

Austerity: European democracies against the wall

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, (2013), Austerity: European democracies against the wall, CEPS. The crisis in the eurozone has had a dramatic impact on the economic and social fabric of European countries. However important it may be, the economic dimension is only the symptom of a broader problem. The crisis is primarily political in nature. Lorenzo Bini Smaghi argues in this book that the crisis reflects the inability of western democracies to …Read More

Η αφύπνιση των δαιμόνων. Η κρίση του ευρώ και πώς να βγούμε από αυτήν

Pisani-Ferry, Jean, (2012), Η αφύπνιση των δαιμόνων. Η κρίση του ευρώ και πώς να βγούμε από αυτήν,  Αθήνα, Πόλις. Περίληψη  Νομίζαμε ότι οι δαίμονες είχαν συνετιστεί: μετά τη χρηματοπιστωτική κρίση του 2008, τα κράτη είχαν ξαναπάρει το πάνω χέρι έναντι των χρηματοπιστωτικών αγορών· για χάρη του ευρώ, οι Ευρωπαίοι είχαν ενταφιάσει τον εθνικό εγωισμό· μπροστά σε χειρότερα πλήγματα, οι υπεύθυνοι της οικονομικής πολιτικής ήξεραν πώς να απαντήσουν και να αποτρέψουν …Read More

Saving Europe: How National Politics Nearly Destroyed the Euro

Bastasin, Carlo, (2012), Saving Europe: How National Politics Nearly Destroyed the Euro, Washington: Brookings Institution Press. Three times in the few years since the global financial crisis erupted, the euro has come close to extinction, endangering both the world economy and history’s most ambitious project in shared sovereignty. Yet each time, the case for a common currency proved to be more compelling than its weaknesses, and the euro survived. Saving Europe reveals …Read More

Delphic Oracle on Europe

Tsoukalis, Loukas, Emmanouilidis, Janis, (ed) (2011), Delphic Oracle on Europe, London, Oxford University Press. The Delphic Oracle on Europe brings together leading thinkers and policy-makers from different academic disciplines and policy-oriented backgrounds from all over Europe. The chapters reflect on ways forward for the European Union in a time of global crisis and profound change. Contributors debate the institutional and political consequences of the Lisbon Treaty, the reform of economic …Read More