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Published in: HomeGay rights in Europe - another front of variable geometryLesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans-gender (LGBT) unions are treated very differently within the member states of the...
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Published in: HomeThe Long and the Quick of RevolutionThis is the Raymond Williams Annual Lecture for 2011, coinciding with the publication of a new 50th anniversary...
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Published in: HomeNeo-Nazi terror and Germany’s racism problem
A failed bank robbery on November 4 this year, exposed a cell in eastern Germany calling itself the “National...
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Published in: HomeNationalism casts a shadow over European democracy
It 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: HomeEurope’s other crisis: authoritarianism
Viktor Orbán, Hungarian Prime Minister, is busy creating a nightmarish "managed democracy" while Europe has its gaze...
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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: 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: 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: HomeBosnia between ethnic-nationalism and Europeanization
The Bosnian political elites who tend to safeguard domination of purely ethnic interests at all costs now must...
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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: HomeEurope’s neglected east: forging partnership
The European Union has an uncertain relationship with the ex-Soviet states to its east. A meeting in Poznan under...
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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: HomeMulticulturalism and social cohesion
The nuts and bolts of a Big Society require a conspiracy of effects at every level, local, national and...
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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...
