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Published in: HomeNationalism casts a shadow over European democracyIt is nation states that have emasculated European institutions. What is often branded as the ‘national interest’ is...
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Published in: HomeThe five follies of David Cameron
Perhaps now, as the eurozone and the entire EU struggles to survive, there will have to be a serious debate in the...
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Published in: HomeItaly's lost sovereignty – when did it happen?
During the past few weeks, Mr. Monti has named many reforms that need to be made, not including a new electoral law....
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Published in: HomeWhy I wish I could condemn Cameron's decision whole-heartedly but can't
It is now that we really need a genuine democratic European movement with strong civil society roots. But it doesn't...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain on the edge of Europe
"I can never recall Britain being so friendless in the EU", writes the Director of the Centre for European Reform...
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Published in: HomeEurope: from crisis to opportunity
The origin of the eurozone crisis lies in the overreach of the Maastricht treaty of 1992. A new process is needed to...
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Published in: HomeEurope: after the endgame
The eurozone crisis reveals the exhaustion of the post-1945 model of Europe-building. This poses a historic...
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Published in: HomeTowards a Red-Green People’s Europe
The president of PASOK and of the Socialist International addressed the German Green party in an audience including...
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Published in: HomeA Greek tragedy: the making of the Greek and Euro-Atlantic ruling classes
Who is George Papandreou? The author challenges what he sees as the defence over recent years on this website of...
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Published in: HomeEuro end-game or end of crisis? Eurozone heads into critical summit
There will be huge sighs of relief if the potential political and economic catastrophe of a break-up of the euro is...
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Published in: openEconomyThis crisis is no excuse for technocratic government
In the author's prescient May 2010 article there is the central observation that we are seeing a fundamental...
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Published in: HomeHope from below: composing the commons in Iceland
Never again can the world be told by the custodians of the old that the people cannot be relied upon to write the...
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Published in: HomeWhy can’t we have that? ‘Global civil disobedience’ and the European living laboratory
In a response to Daniele Archibugi and Patti Tamara Lenard, the author argues that unauthorized immigrants should be...
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Published in: HomeEurope's choice: Monnet vs de Gaulle
The pressure of financial crisis is changing the European Union's internal power-balance. The rival visions of two...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy put to the test
Just as the mechanisms that made democracy function in city states were not adequate for governing nation states,...
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Published in: HomeThe UK's vanishing European influence
The UK has a choice over whether to be a small player on the margins of Europe. But to become so without any serious...
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Published in: HomeRethinking Europe's democratic crisis
Is democracy a luxury good which the global and European economy simply cannot afford – at least, given the...
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Published in: HomeAfter the global crisis
Currently, by and large, the economic system emerging from the crisis is bound to be substantially very similar to...
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Published in: HomeEurope's new populist leaders
Populist movements pick up significant levels of support by presenting themselves as ordinary Joes who are honest...
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Published in: HomeThe road to Europe: defend the biosphere and stop punishing the innocent
Imagine that the world is governed by concentric circles or spheres of power, with the most powerful one on the...