The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on one’s head to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and encourage donations to research. Ingrid Van Engelshoven is a …
The UK’s increasingly hostile approach to immigration
Ruth Grove-Whiteis Policy Director at Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN) and responsible for developing the network’s responses to Government policy and legislation. She leads on MRN parliamentary work and representing the organisation in the media and at public events. Ruth graduated with an …
Study reveals that EU is part of most Europeans’ everyday life
University of York, David Garner Senior Press Officer The EU is becoming part of most Europeans’ everyday life irrespective of social class, according to a study in six countries. Data collected by researchers in six EU member states — Denmark, …
West East European Political divide
Johan Hellström is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Umeå University. His research interests are in comparative politics, political methodology, political parties and party systems in Europe, political representation and accountability, public opinion, and European politics. …
Can You Speak Commission?
Susannah Savage, Columnist @Swizz677 “At what time will be ze reunion?” my friend Taran asks me in a thick French accent, which would be cute were Taran not from Leicester. The European Commission goes one step beyond the acronyms, abbreviations and …
The Greek problems
Fotis Zygoulis is a PhD candidate at the University of Athens. He is also the Head of the Independent Planning and Design Department of the Municipality of Heraklion Attica. Elina Zagou is based at the County Court in Katerini, Greece. …
Trained to Schmooze
Susannah Savage, Columnist @Swizz677 Trainees are very unlikely to actually be employed by the European Commission. It would be far too simple if you completed a training period during which you proved yourself not to be an imbecile and were offered …
The fall of Bulgaria’s government & corruption
Aneta Spendzharova (Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Her research interests are in political economy, EU regulatory governance and the politics of East Central Europe. The Bulgarian parliament was dissolved on …
The danger of European populism
Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. The success of populist and Eurosceptic parties was one of the key narratives to emerge from the European Parliament elections in May. Ruth Wodak writes on the platforms which …
Policy bubbles: What factors drive their birth, maturity and death?
Moshe Maor is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His full academic profile can be found here. A policy bubble is a policy overreaction that is reinforced by positive feedback over a relatively long period of time. Policy bubbles impose social costs without producing offsetting benefits. Moshe Maor explores …