“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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Marco Scipioni is a Ph.D. student at Birkbeck, University of London.

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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Lampedusa, Italy and the EU

Marco Scipioni 30 October 2013

After the recent tragedy in Lampedusa, a number of politicians and commentators have claimed that what Italy needs to face the current refugees crisis is more support from the European Union. Politics aside, what does this claim really imply?

New treaty or institutionalised hypocrisy?

Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos and Marco Scipioni 22 March 2012

Mrs Merkel and much of the German political establishment doggedly espouse the doctrine of ordoliberalism, despite growing opposition not only on the left but on the right, with economic liberals such as Mario Monti and Guy Verhofstadt arguing for growth-inducing measures. Where can we look for an explanation?

Exceptionalism as an excuse in Europe’s crisis

Marco Scipioni and Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos 7 February 2012

This crisis is being used by the national leaders to push the EU down the wrong institutional path, namely intergovernmentalism. The British Tory-led government veto played a role in this, pushing the other member states down the only road that remained available to them, an intergovernmental treaty, but it did so on already ‘fertile ground’.