Article by Jacques Delors, Javier Solana, Ulrich Beck, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and others, published on The  Guardian, 3 May 2012
We want to establish a counter model to the Europe of elites and technocrats, and re-establish its political creativity and legitimacy. 
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Date: 11th May 2012
Time: 12pm–2pm 
Venue: Europe House, Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU
Europe and the world have changed fundamentally since French voters last went to the polls to elect a new President in 2007. Global financial and economic crisis has dominated world politics for the past five years. This in turn, has exposed  weaknesses in the eurozone [...]

Article by Ferenc Miszlivetz  published on Open Democracy, 30 April 2012
Instead of deepening integration, the famous Franco-German engine now represented by the Merkozy-Sarkel tandem has brought the EU to the fringe of disintegration. Where does the road lead from here? Will Europe combust, as some of its rivals and adversaries hope and suggest – or are [...]

Article by Charlemagne publshed on The Economist, 28 April 2012 (from the print edition)
France and the Netherlands once again resist the European consensus.
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Post by Duncan McDonnell published on Europp, 16 April 2012
Silvio Berlusconi was Italy’s longest-serving prime minister since Benito Mussolini, and his resignation was a turning point in modern Italian history. Duncan McDonnell argues that his successor Mario Monti’s government marks an era of ‘democracy without choices’. He believes that Monti’s technocratic government damages the very idea [...]

Post by Jonathan Hopkin published on Europp, 24 April 2012
Only Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has survived a post-crisis election. Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and Greece’s Georgios Papandreou were replaced by technocrats. Jonathan Hopkin argues that these recent government changes in Southern Europe are a threat to democracy.
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Article published on Le Monde, 23 April 2012
La crise a voté. Massivement. Les Français n’ont pas, dira-t-on, cédé au désenchantement démocratique.
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Article by Markus Ojala, published on Open Democracy, 19 April 2012
The scope and seriousness of communication about Europe, and concurrent growing demands for European democracy from civil society might even legitimize an argument about an emerging European public sphere like never before. Yet the euro crisis debate also reveals the weaknesses of Europe as a [...]

On 11 April, Jean-Claude Piris, who served as the Legal Counsel of the European Council and of the Council of the European Union and Director General of their Legal Service from 1988 to 2010, gave a Debating Europe lecture on “The Future of Europe: Towards a Two-Speed EU? ” at the European University Institute.
In the lecture, Piris [...]

Article published on Deutsche Welle, 17 April 2012
“We stand for more democracy,” says Gregory Engels, international coordinator of the German Pirate Party. He tells DW how his party intends to achieve this on the European level.
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