Commentary by Adriaan Schout, published in the EPIN Commentaries Series of CEPS on July 26, 2011
Once regarded as a cornerstone of the European project, the Netherlands now figures as one of its severest critics. This commentary by Adriaan Schout argues that one reason for this reversal in position is that the Dutch Parliament has been skirting [...]
Article by Julian Priestley published on European Voice on July 28, 2011
The EU should not be looking to the past for ways to encourage citizens to engage with elections to the European Parliament.
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http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/right-question-wrong-answer-/71752.aspx
Article by David Marquand, published on OpenDemocracy.net on July 20, 2011
A retreat from the present unsatisfactory half-way house to a Gaullist ‘Europe des Patries’ would be an act of reactionary vandalism.
Brooding on the responses to my recent openDemocracy piece on Europe it seems to me that two themes stand out: democracy and leadership. Both go to the [...]
Article by Matthew Dalton published on the Wall Street Journal on July 25, 2011.
Friday’s bomb attack in Oslo and shooting massacre on a nearby island have thrust the threat of anti-immigrant, right-wing extremism to center stage in the European political debate. Far right, anti-immigrant parties have gained significant popular support in recent years — think [...]
Article by Tim Lister published on CNN, July 25, 2011.
The far right in Europe has enjoyed a renaissance over the past 30 years, driven by resentment of the growing powers of the European Union and by rejection of the “multiculturalism” that has accompanied rapid immigration from the developing world.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/24/europe.far.right/
Working Paper 2011/20 by Meltem Müftüler-Baç, published in July 2011 in the RECON Online Working Paper series.
In international relations the European Union has emerged as a new form of polity increasingly characterized by a unique mix of state-like attributes and intergovernmental organization traits. At the same time, it seems to be increasingly characterized by multiculturalism, [...]
Article by Hans F. Bellstedt published on Atlantic-Community.org on July 19, 2011
Joschka Fischer’s call for “greater European political unification” will not help solve the EU’s ongoing debt crisis. The only way to regain the public’s trust and restore financial markets is strict fiscal austerity as a prerequisite for future sustainable growth.
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http://www.atlantic-community.org/index/articles/view/EU_Crisis%3A_Return_to_the_Language_of_Truth
Working Paper n. 8 published in the Working Paper Series on the Legal Regulation of Political Parties, by Sergiu Gherghina (Leiden University), Mihail Chiru (Central European University), Fernando Casal-Bértoa (Leiden University), July 2011
This paper is the first systematic attempt to map the evolution of legal regulations concerning campaign finance in post-communist Romania and to link them with [...]
“My core views on Europe have not changed: we should be in the EU but not run by the EU”, Article by William Hague, UK Foreign Secretary, published on July 16, 2011, on The Telegraph.
With so much else going on, many will not have noticed that a radical new law was passed by Parliament on [...]
RSCAS/EUDO Working Paper by Wilhelm Lehmann, 2011/23
The double role of national political parties in both national and European politics is an important explanatory factor for the dilatory development of European democracy. This paper contends that the present institutional design of electoral procedures has political costs and is one of the main reasons for this two-faced [...]
