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

Κοτόφωλος, Γιάννης, (2017), “Άποψη: Το νέο δόγμα της Ευρώπης θα αλλάξει όλα τα δεδομένα”, Καθημερινή, 20 Φεβρουαρίου ​​Ευρώπη των δύο ταχυτήτων φαίνεται ότι είναι πλέον μονόδρομος και ότι θα αρχίσει να υλοποιείται, ως σχέδιο πολιτικής, μετά τις γερμανικές εκλογές, το προσεχές φθινόπωρο. Το σενάριο δεν είναι καινούργιο, ανέβηκε όμως τώρα στην κορυφή της ατζέντας ως μα επείγουσα λύση που θα αναχαιτίσει τον κίνδυνο διάλυσης της Ευρώπης και θα προστατεύσει το …Read More

Wolff, Guntram B., (2017), “What will drive political uncertainty in 2017?”, Bruegel, 3 Ιανουαρίου 2017 promises to be another challenging year for Europe’s liberal democracies. The EU is facing three, or even four, elections in major member states. The Netherlands, France, Germany and possibly also Italy will go to the polls. The results of all four elections are far from certain at this stage. Indeed, voting behaviour seems to have …Read More

Pisani-Ferry, Jean, (2017), “The Abandonment of Progress”, Project Syndicate, 2 Ιανουαρίου Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan are remembered for the laissez-faire revolution they launched in the early 1980s. They campaigned and won on the promise that free-market capitalism would unleash growth and boost prosperity. In 2016, Nigel Farage, the then-leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) who masterminded Brexit, and US President-elect Donald Trump campaigned and won on a very …Read More

Fratzscher, Marcel, (2016), “Will Europe Let Germany Lead?”, Project Syndicate, 27 Δεκεμβρίου The United Kingdom’s Brexit vote, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s referendum defeat and subsequent resignation, and Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States have created a power vacuum in the West, and in Europe. At a time when Europe needs to make important collective economic and foreign-policy decisions, domestic issues are preoccupying larger European Union member …Read More