Lecture   by Judge Allan Rosas
Wednesday 22 February 2012 17:00 – 18:30
Sala Bandiere, Villa Schifanoia, European University Institute, Fiesole
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Article by Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos, published on OpenDemocracy.net, 20 February 2012
Elections in France in 2012, Germany in 2013, the European elections of 2014 and the ongoing negotiations for the reform of the EU’s multi-annual financial framework for the 2014-2020 period are opportunities. Whether socialists and social democrats will take advantage of them or not, remains [...]

SPS/EUDO Roundtable Discussion, 2 March 2012, 15.30-17.30
The new Hungarian Constitution, the Fundamental Law of Hungary that entered into force on 1 January 2012 has attracted a great deal of criticism and debate worldwide. Hailed by its proponents as the act that completed the transition to democracy, it was criticized by others as an undertaking that [...]

Article by Christopher Emsden, published on The Wall Street Journal, 16 February 2012
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti called for increasing the power of the European Parliament, the EU’s legislative body, as a way to give the 27-nation bloc more democratic legitimacy—especially at a time when its members are being asked to swallow unpopular austerity measures [...]

Article by Guido Montani, published on EuroActiv, 13 February 2012
The decision of 25 EU governments to endorse a fiscal compact marked a turning point in the sovereign debt crisis. Now a debate on the political future of the EU begins.
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by Joshua Tucker published on The Monkey Cage, on February 13, 2012
Democracy is in crisis in Hungary.  With a commanding super majority in Parliament, the Fidesz government, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has enacted a new Constitution and a series of related crucial laws. Some of their clauses have provoked uproar in the European [...]

Article by Paul Linden-Retek, published on Open Democracy, 12 February 2012
In search of a new European politics, we must face the fact that we have skirted the political question of identity: how do we redraw the boundaries (symbolic and physical) dividing us so that we can re-democratize the European public space?
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Launch of the Puzzled by Policy Platform.  
Every day, people encounter situations that are governed by national and EU policy: what mode of transport to take to work, are they eligible to live in an EU member-state, where can they study? However, many are unaware of what their country’s and EU current policies are and, as [...]

Article by Marco Scipioni and Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos , published on Open Democracy, 7 February 2012
This crisis is being used by the national leaders to push the EU down the wrong institutional path, namely intergovernmentalism. The British Tory-led government veto played a role in this, pushing the other member states down the only road that [...]

Article by Timothy Snyder published on The New York Review of Books, 7 February 2012
The European crisis, which we process from headline to headline as a matter of currencies and bailouts, is really a test of large-scale democratic capitalism. The disintegration of the Eurozone would be nearly as disastrous for the US as it would [...]