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Published in: HomeThe road to Europe: movements and democracyEurope’s crisis is a crisis of democracy. The ‘democracy of the experts’ cannot deliver: representative democracy is...
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Published in: HomeThe road to Europe: questions on the UnionWhat do the mountains of debt of a west that used to be rich have in common? Were errors made in the construction...
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Published in: HomeThe road to Europe: the making of the Union’s crisisYes, European leaders could all agree when it came to imposing austerity on Athens, Dublin, Lisbon and Rome,...
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Published in: HomeDangerously ignorant – What Germany and Europe should learn from Roosevelt
The current protraction of reforms of the financial system as well as of governance in Europe leads only to ongoing...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 24th 2011
This report is dedicated to the memory of Amy Winehouse, who tragically passed away yesterday. As we mourn the loss...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe EU approaches a constitutional moment
A retreat from the present unsatisfactory half-way house to a Gaullist ‘Europe des Patries’ would be an act of...
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Published in: HomeThe EU in the Arab spring
The EU has a choice to make: does it want to assert itself as a normative power, or does it want to stay an...
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Published in: HomeTrue challenge of a European demos
José Ignacio Torreblanca accuses Europe’s politicians of having comprehensively failed in speaking to or for Europe....
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Published in: HomeOur European incapacityIf we are to articulate a ‘politics of hope’ in contemporary Europe, then we must revisit such problematic concepts...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe coordinated attack on multiculturalism
Centre-right parties across Europe are announcing the failure of multiculturalism. We are witnessing a co-ordinated...
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Published in: HomeEU foreign policy: moving on from LibyaHistorically, internal divisions have caused the EU to be flat-footed in responding to foreign policy crises. But by...
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Published in: HomeCalling Europe's bluff in north Africa
Europe has taken too little interest in the political path of its southern neighbours, argues Fabrizio Tassinari.
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Published in: HomeStudents: hitch up to Europe
A wave of student protest animated Britain’s political scene in late 2010 and highlighted wider concerns about the...
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Published in: openSecurityDrilling for war
Provocative demonstrations of US military might are no way to avert conflict in east Asia, argues Angel Gómez-de-Ágreda
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Published in: openEconomyPPP pushers: why can't the EBRD stop?
Public Private Partnerships – the off-balance-sheet instrument of choice for indebted governments – are still...
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Published in: openSecurityRussian attendance at Nato summit confirmed
Russia has accepted an invitation to Nato's forthcoming Lisbon meeting. Islamist rebels attack Chechen capital....
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Published in: HomeThe EU's new External Action Service: what would success look like?
Plans for the EEAS seem to include innovative units for conflict prevention, security and stability. It is worth...
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Published in: HomeThe truth about public trust in governmentTrust in government is often thought to be in terminal crisis, but the truth is somewhat more complicated, argues...
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Published in: HomeEurope's butterfly effectAmid an increasingly competitive global environment where Europe's future aspirations on the world stage have been...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBook Review: Anderson's EuropeThe European Union may very well be stumbling into recession with Germany and the UK to the fore as they savage...
