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Published in: HomeThe Vatican on trialThe trial of the pope's former butler and the letter of a senior archbishop are but two episodes revealing the deep...
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Published in: HomeRearticulating the movement post-15M in Spain
On September 15 in Madrid, over one hundred thousand people answered the unions’ call to demand a referendum on...
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Published in: HomeDeadlock for Catalonia and Spain
Fortuna, the crisis, gave Artur Mas, Catalonia’s Premier, the Machiavellian occasione for a jump forward towards...
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Published in: HomeRe-imagining Europe: re-imagining democracy
People across Europe are critiquing the morality of the political and economic system. Globalisation has helped to...
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Published in: HomeExperiments in democracy and diversity within the Occupy Movement(s)Horizontal democracy attempts to ensure equality by embracing diversity and conflict. Within these political...
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Published in: HomeThe end of YugoslaviaThe violent break-up of Yugoslavia, like a long shadow, forecast what we are facing today: a Europe, tangled in a...
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Published in: HomeLos Indignados: a movement that is here to stay
The retreat of national politics in the face of the imperatives of the global financial markets is returning...
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Published in: HomeThey all want Monti longer... because they all fear Beppe Grillo's revolution!In Italy, a consensus is slowly building around a second term for Mario Monti's technocratic government – but could...
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Published in: HomePrivatising the common fisheries policyThis vital matter of public concern, with far-reaching ramifications for our relationship to nature should be...
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Published in: HomeScarcity, shame and flapping arms in Athens
Since February 2010, the crisis in Greece is being addressed with austerity measures as prescribed by the troika of...
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Published in: HomeAll aboard the Monti bandwagon!The Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Monti, has recently hinted that he might stay for a second term at the head of...
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Published in: HomeGlobal trade politics and the spectre of the publicThis opening paper of the workshop, Creating publics, Creating democracies (see this week's theme) explores the...
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Published in: HomePortugal and the eurozone crisis: the well-behaved pupil plays truant
The people have finally realised that the troika-imposed austerity is not working in Portugal. In fact, the...
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Published in: HomeWhy we in the UK shouldn’t celebrate these extraditions
This week’s decision of the European Court of Human Rights to allow the extradition of five individuals accused of...
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Published in: HomeDoes the Eurozone need its own parliament?
Since the sovereignty debt crisis ‘Europe’ more often means the Eurozone of 17 nations rather than the European...
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Published in: HomeEurope: are there Nazis living on the moon?
Costa Concordia, the famous cruise ship that hit a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea in January 2012 might furnish another...
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Published in: HomeCatalonia and Spain
If the answer is independence, what was the question? Does is really make sense to demand sovereignty at a time when...
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Published in: HomeYou want federal Europe? why not start with a European social stability mechanism?European federalism is back, says European Commission president Barroso. His call for a "federation of nation...
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Published in: HomeThe nuclear options of Catalonia
The huge demonstration in Barcelona on September 11 – the national day of Catalonia – under the banner of...
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Published in: HomeRomania: church and state
Politicians exist within a democracy and can be voted out. The Romanian Orthodox Church on the other hand does not,...