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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Five Star Movement’s natural ally in Strasbourg is Podemos
Beppe Grillo doesn’t suffer fools gladly – why did he ally with UKIP then?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EAF is dead! Long live the MENL!
The Front National has long been at the centre of pan-European party initiatives, which were always dominated by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Eurosceptic revolution: much ado about nothing?
The success of eurosceptic parties at the 2014 European elections was expected to mark a paradigm shift in both...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Grillo-Farage connection
Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement has formed an alliance in the European Parliament with Nigel Farage's UKIP. We...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Romania and Bulgaria: occupy the transition!
Last year’s mass protests in Romania and Bulgaria gave citizens a taste of how together they can transform public...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Just who are Podemos?
Who are the people voting for Podemos? An analysis of election data reveals some surpising results.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?EU: Reframing can go hand in hand with reform
On the crucial question of EU reform, reframing the European debate can actually facilitate, rather than obstruct,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?So, who should run Europe?
European citizens through a democratic process or national governments and lobbies? Will Europe integrate and renew...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?For Spanish democrats, this is the time to demand the reinstatement of the republic
The monarchy in Spain is an institution that is intimately linked with the fascist regime of General Franco. Spain’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Podemos, or how the European elections helped trigger the early exit of a king
The extraordinary electoral success of Podemos, given its short trajectory, has had the greatest repercussion...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Euro elections 2014: You tell us bloggers on life after elections (Part One)
Our You Tell Us bloggers say farewell to the Euro elections and for now at least, to Can Europe make it?. See part two here.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Euro elections 2014: You tell us bloggers on life after elections (Part Two)
Our You Tell Us bloggers say farewell to the Euro elections and for now at least, to Can Europe make it?. See part one here.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The King is dead!
The King is dead! Long live the giddy baby elephant of the people!
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Last King of Spain?
After 39 years on the throne, Juan Carlos de Borbón has announced his abdication of the Spanish Crown in favor of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Citizens are not stupid: looking at the European Elections from the outside in
Seen by an outsider, the European Elections actually looked more like a success for Europe and transnational...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Quo vadis, Europe?
Europeans, like most other inhabitants of the planet, are currently facing the crisis of ’politics as we know it’ –...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy: back to the future?
PM Matteo Renzi triumphed over Beppe Grillo and Berlusconi in the last European elections. Does this reshuffling of...