6 December 2011
 Roundtable organised by the London School of Economics
Speakers: Franziska Branter MEP (Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, European Parliament), Mike Gapes MP (former Chairman of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee), Lord Teverson (Chairman, Sub-Committee C – Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development, House of Lords), Dr Wolfgang Wagner (VU University of [...]

29 November 2011,  1.00-2.30pm
Speaker: Professor Simon Hix, London School of Economics
Chair: Michael Steed, McDougall Trust
Venue: Lakeman Library, 6 Chancel Street, London SE1 OUX 
An opportunity to hear about and discuss how coalitions and coalition-formation works in the European Union’s political system, including the European Parliament and European Council, from Professor Simon Hix. Who wins and who [...]

Voters still know their own minds, but globalisation could change everything.
Article by Richard Nobbs published on The Guardian on 28 November 2011
Read the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/28/threat-to-democracy-in-europe?newsfeed=true

Instead of Soviet-style German euro-nationalism, let us create a Europe of the citizens, a community of democracies
 Article by Ulrich Beck published on The Guardian, 28 November 2011
Read the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/28/europe-crisis-opportunity-democracy

Article by Simon Jenkins published on The Guardian, 24 November 2011
Europe may well muddle through with technocrats and tighter straitjackets, but the rule of the people must be guarded
Read the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/24/inevitable-eu-democracy-survive-mess?newsfeed=true

Article by Thomas Darnstaedt, Christoph Schult and Helene Zuber published on the Spiegel Online, 24 November 2011
It used to be easy to convince people to support the European project back when many benefited financially from the common market. But now that the euro crisis has divided the continent into winners and losers, people have lost [...]

 Robert Schuman Seminar. 23 November 2011, 17-19, Villa Malafrasca, San Domenico di Fiesole, Firenze
 Presentations by Duncan McDonnell (JMF), ‘Populism and Euroscepticism: A Marriage of Convenience?’, Isabelle Guinaudeau (Max Weber Fellow), ‘Debating Europe within Mainstream Parties. The case of British, French and German Social-Democratic Parties (1986-2009)’ and Enrico Calossi (EUI), ‘Models of Affiliation and Disaffiliation of [...]

29 November 2011,  18.30- 20
Rappresentanza in Italia della Commissione Europea – Spazio Europa
Via IV Novembre, 149 – Roma
Debate on the book
 Democracy in the EU after the Lisbon Treaty
IAI Publication , Notre Europe, Centro studi sul federalismo, edited by Raffaello Matarazzo
Nuova Cultura, Roma 2011
 

   
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RSCAS EUDO Working Paper 2011/60  by Takis S. Pappas
This paper, initially prompted by the puzzles raised from the atypical emergence of charismatic politics in the otherwise ordinary political system that our contemporary democracy is supposed to be, seeks to bring political charisma back into the study of comparative politics by reconstructing the concept and rendering [...]

RSCAS EUDO Working Paper 2011/ by Claudio M. Radaelli and Samuele Dossi
The transformations brought about by changing patterns of representation, the role of the media in politics, and processes of Europeanization and globalization have challenged the political parties of the West-European Left – and Italy is no exception to this trend. At the policy level, [...]