Menon, A. (2015) “The Five Things Everyone Should Know About the European Union“, Social Europe Journal, 08 Απριλίου.   Where to start when asked, in five points, to encapsulate an institution as complex, as contested, as frequently misunderstood and indeed as deliberately misrepresented as the European Union? Perhaps with the statement that both its supporters and detractors exaggerate their cases. Rather than being the all-powerful behemoth frequently alluded to by …Read More

Kern, A. (2015) “Viva la competencia“, The European Magazine, 27 Μαρτίου.   Argentina was once the economic pride of the southern hemisphere. There is barely anything left after a half-century of misrule. Europe can (and must) learn from this cautionary tale. The distance between Santiago de Chile and Bueneos Aires is only one hour flying time: an hour that separates the future from the past. One travels from an emerging …Read More

Nikolas Papageorgiou (2015) “The unspectacular Union“, The European Magazine, 24 Μαρτίου.   From lobbyists to toasters: Why the EU is not as evil, opaque, or important as we think. Most people who dive into understanding how things work in Brussels find out the hard way: the way things work in this town is rarely, if ever, shocking enough to be bothered with. Like most things we hear about the European …Read More

Cash, B. (2015) “With or without them“, The European Magazine, 18 Μαρτίου. The UK is not an obstacle to harmony and stability. It is the EU integrationists who generate economic and democratic instability. Times change. I supported our continuing British membership in the Referendum of 1975, and I voted for the Single European Act in 1986. When we joined what would become the EU, we were led to believe it …Read More

Marino, B. (2015) “Liberal-democratic parties face unprecedented challenges, but remain a viable part of European party systems“, LSE EUROPP, 18 Μαρτίου.   Liberal-democratic parties have been a stable feature of several party systems in Europe, but in recent years parties such as the Liberal Democrats in the UK and the FDP in Germany have experienced significant downturns in support. Bruno Marino assesses the challenges that such parties now face in …Read More

Weisbrot, M. (2015) “Will Podemos rescue Spain’s unemployed youths?“, Forbes Magazine, Commentary, 09 Μαρτίου.   In just two months since it was created, the leftist party pushing for an end to austerity in debt-troubled Spain has won 8% of the vote in Europe’s parliamentary elections. Earlier this year, the electoral victory of Syriza in Greece marked the first government elected within the troubled eurozone to finally say no to European …Read More