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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Italian electoral campaign and the issue of immigration: a Twitter analysis in the aftermath of the Macerata attack
Interestingly enough, the presence of hashtags such as #itaexit and #noEU suggests a clear link – in the ‘national...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On the eve of the German elections, Alternative für Deutschland prevails on Twitter
Populist parties have a higher capacity to exploit digital arenas to boost and propagate their slogans and influence...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Romania: a social democratic anomaly in eastern Europe?
Romania should be the ideal playground for right-populist parties, but in its recent election it was the Social...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Moving towards a fiscal capacity for the euro area: some politico-economic considerations
The implementation of a strengthened fiscal capacity for the Eurozone should proceed by taking into account all its...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The executive deficit of the European Union
The oft-repeated mantra of ‘more coordination’ won’t provide a real solution to Europe’s political crises unless the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s social model in the balance as parties attempt to form a government
In the context of a highly perceptible erosion of social rights, labour market and tax reform have taken on a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The relevance of Keynesian economics for Europe
Keynesian economics continues to reveal its relevance as an alternative to mainstream approaches, as The General...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The troubling link between economic and political inequality in Europe
Trust in institutions is not equally distributed among populations. In general, people from higher social strata...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Renzi vs Juncker: a social media analysis
If Matteo Renzi hoped to gain support among Italian eurosceptics in his quarrel with Jean-Claude Juncker, the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Cameron’s renegotiation speech and intra-EU migration: how the web reacted
Using natural language processing (NLP) techniques, we have analysed reactions to Cameron’s speech on Twitter,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fraternity: a realistic starting point for solidarity in the EU
Rather than solidarity, perhaps we should be striving for the less ambitious but more realistic concept of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Eurozone crisis and the future of Europe, as viewed from Greece
As new rulers (and their voters) gradually realize that austerity cannot be simply voted out of existence, or...