Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is the author of Nationalism after Communism (with Ivan Krastev). She teaches democracy at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. She is author of A Quest for Good Governance. How Societies Build Control of Corruption (Cambridge University Press) which traces anticorruption institutions from thirteenth century Siena to present day Ukraine.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why Catalonia does not deserve to be independent
If we accept such self-serving and irresponsible arguments in one case, the whole of Europe is gone.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?If FIFA were a country
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?European trust: the perfect storm
To entrust an increasingly sceptical public with more and more veto powers at the very moment when existing veto...