Extract from Zur Verfassung Europas (De la Constitution de l’Europe) by Jürgen Habermas, published on Le Monde, 27 october 2011
Read the extract:
http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/1102281-juergen-habermas-la-democratie-en-jeu
Article by Benedict Brogan published on The Telegraph, 18 October 2011
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100111943/david-cameron-doesn%E2%80%99t-have-long-to-tell-us-where-he-stands-on-europe/
Article published by Doug Sounders on The Globe and Mail, on October 11, 2011.
It was barely noticed on Monday morning as the world reeled from the violence in Egypt and Syria and the turn toward authoritarianism in Russia, but Poland’s national election showed how a formerly authoritarian country can defy the odds and step peacefully [...]
Article by Ian Bremmer, published on The Financial Times, October 9, 2011
Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, triumphantly declared recently that the country was firmly on a different path to Greece. With a package of fiscal reforms announced in March, Hungary’s outlook has improved and the economic fate of the country remains squarely in its own hands, [...]
Against the backdrop of a changed European political landscape, which can be described as multifaceted interplay of local, regional, national and supra-national institutions, actors and stakeholders, the overarching conference topic focuses on political agenda setting, decision making and implementation of politics from a comparative point of view.
The Conference will take place in Vienna on 27-29 [...]
Conference organised by the University of Maastricht, EUDO, the Ius Commune Research School and the Universiteitsfonds Limburg, 10-11 October 2011, Maastricht.
For more information:
http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/web/Faculties/FL/Theme/ResearchPortal/Conferences/JudicialActivismAtTheCourtOfJustice/Programme.htm
Article published by Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the New York Times, on October 3, 2011
We are engulfed today in a concatenation of crises of the utmost gravity, as most people recognize even if they have no idea what to do. Less noticed is that these are all problems of democracy.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/opinion/04iht-edwheatcroft04.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=democracy&st=cse
