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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Iceland: portrait of the pirate as a young politicianHalldór Auðar Svansson, 34, is the first Pirate Party member to be part of a majority coalition, in Reykjavik. He...
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Published in: TransformationSocial innovation and the challenge of democracy in EuropeThe hype surrounding the innovation society obscures crucial issues of politics and power.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Towards a standard open decisions API
In the coming months, we look forward to helping move toward shared principles or standards for open government...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU needs better anti-money laundering rulesThe EU seeks to become the standard-bearer on financial transparency. But right now, it’s still too easy to get away...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The habits of the heart: substantive democracy after the European electionsDespite the dramatic spread of democratic procedures in recent decades, there is a profound and growing deficit in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s unfinished democracyOld Europe is disaggregating. The new Europe, which has long been a reality in the mind of many European citizens,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The European Union’s problem is substance, not narrativeThe hard fact that 'pro-Europeans' have to grasp is that for many people the EU is not at all that great. Quite the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Let's forget about EU reformsThose who bet their political career on EU reforms are likely to return from Brussels with little to show to their...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Money laundering and sausages: the making of EU lawsLast Tuesday week, MEPs overwhelmingly voted in favour of public disclosure of the real owners of companies, trusts,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?In defence of electing the European Commission presidentIn May, for the first time ever, European citizens will have a chance to (indirectly) elect the next president of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Who decides how European elections work: the party or the electorate?There may be only one European election, but how the candidates in each country are elected can be quite different....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Majority voting is outdated
Peter Emerson is director of the de Borda Institute in Belfast that works on improving voting systems. How for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe is diverging: ignore it at your peril
In the absence of a strong and concerted political direction, the EU is undergoing a process of structural...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Are we sleepwalking into a lost generation?Youth unemployment in Europe is a social bomb waiting to explode, and yet another proof of the EU’s lack of vision....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Lampedusa, Italy and the EUAfter the recent tragedy in Lampedusa, a number of politicians and commentators have claimed that what Italy needs...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Variations on citizenship in a wider Europe: a round-table discussionHas ‘multilevel governance’ replaced the nation state or European confederation, creating the precondition for a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Democracy on ice: a post-mortem of the Icelandic constitutionIn spite of clear popular support, Iceland's new crowd-sourced constitution was recently killed by politicians. An...
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Published in: HomeEurope after Europe: the other Europe in waitingWith so many conflicting interpretations of what post-crisis Europe should look like, it is easy to forget that...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?As Europe is provincialized: a reply to Etienne Balibar
Europe can make sense only insofar as it becomes a space which makes it easier to get rid of the fear that the...
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Published in: HomeA social Europe must be a political EuropeMy dear Etienne Balibar, in a recent article you explain how a new Europe can only come from the bottom up. But how...
