Conference, Ghent University, Belgium, 16-17 December 2011
This Jean Monnet Information and Research Activity will examine whether and how the kind of democracy promoted by the EU differs from that advocated by other international actors. Thus, this event will serve to compare the EU’s view on democracy promotion with that of other actors, including the United [...]
RECON Working Online Paper 2011/25 by Mattias Iser
Abstract
In this paper I deny the claim that the European Union is not and cannot be a political community based on a strong sense of solidarity between its members. The influential position that I critically discuss states that such solidarity would have to rely on sovereign law enforcement [...]
Madariaga Paper, Vol. 4, No. 13 (Nov., 2011) by Marco Giuli
In a very similar way, Greece and Italy ended up appointing technical governments as a result of unsustainable pressures from the markets. The aim of this article is to question the assumption that the introduction of some unpopular measure – although necessary – constitutes the [...]
Article by Kirsty Hughes published on 5 December 2011 on Open Democracy. net
There will be huge sighs of relief if the potential political and economic catastrophe of a break-up of the euro is avoided. But a return to ‘normal’ politics it will not be.
Read the article:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/kirsty-hughes/euro-end-game-or-end-of-crisis-eurozone-heads-into-critical-summit
Conference, 8-9 December, Glasgow, United Kingdom
During 2010, Greece suddenly found itself at the centre of European and world attention as the country was rocked by the worst economic crisis of its modern history. In response, the government was forced to make substantial cuts in Greece’s budget and introduce unprecedented austerity measures in order to meet [...]
ReligioWest Project, Lecture presented by Prof. François Foret, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Monday 5 December 2011, 11:00 – 13:00. Seminar Room 3 – Badia Fiesolana, Organised by Prof. Olivier Roy
Abstract
The EU has no direct competence in relation to religion but meets it as social and political issues when dealing with fundamental rights, culture, education and geopolitics. Religious [...]
Marcus Hahn-Lorber
On 9 November 2011, the German Constitutional Court delivered a far-reaching judgment on European electoral law as it has been concretised by German legislation. The Constitutional Court declared the so called “five percent threshold”, which is provided by s. 2(7) Europawahlgesetz unconstitutional and therefore void. In order not to interfere with EU electoral [...]
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal
8-10 December 2011
The conference aims to assess the political project of the European Union both in its present contours and in its future prospects. The conference takes place within the framework of an FCT sponsored research project on Constitutionalisation and EU identity that the Institute of Philosophy of Language and the [...]
Shirley Williams
When George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece, proposed a referendum on the Greek austerity programme, the chanceries of Europe quailed, and the European Union’s leaders collectively denounced the idea. But George Papandreou’s proposal was not absurd. It was rooted in the belief that the Greek people needed to own the painful austerity [...]
RECON Online Working Paper 2011/24 by Dirk Peters, Wolfgang Wagner and Cosima Glahn
The paper examines a key dimension of democratic control, namely parliamentary control of military missions and presents the findings of an in-depth case study on the EU’s maritime mission Atalanta that was launched to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia. The case study finds [...]
