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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...
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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...
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Published in: HomeA Greek referendum WAS an excellent idea
There was for a moment a breath of democracy in the crisis of the European currency and an attempt at honesty. But...
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Published in: HomeThe road to Europe: can wage-setting save the monetary union?
The periphery and core countries of the EU have been locked for many years prior to the crisis into opposing...
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Published in: HomeEuropean Union: who do you believe?
As the future of Greece and the euro are again plunged into uncertainty, is there any more certainty to be found at...
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Published in: HomeInto Europe
Each EU country has a relationship to Europe which tells you about its own makeup, character and inclinations....
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Published in: HomeUnmasking the myths of anti-multiculturalism
If society depicts immigration and immigrants as worthless and useless for the economy, these enemy images will lead...
