Michael W. Bauer is Jean Monnet Professor and holds the Chair of Comparative Public Administration and Policy Analysis at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. Stefan Becker is a Researcher at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. Several …
The masterful Jean-Claude Juncker
@AllieRenison is head of Europe and Trade Policy at the Institute of Directors. For all of the protestations about Jean Claude Juncker’s unsuitability for what is, ultimately, the EU’s top job (sorry, Angela Merkel), the unveiling of his new Commission yesterday has confirmed …
The New European Commission: Inward- or Outward-Looking?
Judy Dempsey, Nonresident senior associate, Carnegie Europe, Editor in Chief, Strategic Europe Incoming European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker’s first words on announcing the members of his new commission were about jobs and growth. Enlargement and the EU’s neighbours are second rank. Putting …
Fidesz opposition to Juncker
Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party retained a comfortable majority in Hungary’s parliament in national elections in April and received more than 50 per cent of the Hungarian vote in the European Parliament elections in May. Johannes Wachs writes that while Fidesz has received …