Every European Citizen has the right to work. Without having proper access to work they do not have the full dignity of citizens. Among other things, the right to work refers to the creation of jobs, putting an end to …
Less than 36.8% of MEPs are female
Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán is an Assistant Professor and based at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. Her work focuses on social and political philosophy and feminist theory. Procedures for raising the number of female politicians in parliaments and governments have been …
The death of European states
Dimitris Ballas is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. Benjamin Hennig is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geography and the …
EU seeks Latin American food embargo on Russia
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. On 11 August 2014, the EU was reported to be planning talks to dissuade Latin American countries from providing Russia with agricultural produce, after Russia imposed retaliatory food import …
Poundzone vs Eurozone
Waltraud Schelkle is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. She is particularly interested in the political economy of European monetary integration and the role of financial markets for social policy. One …
Norway joins EU sanctions against Russia
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. On 12 August 2014, Norway announced that it will join sanctions the EU has imposed on Russia over the situation in Ukraine. Although Norway is not part …
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 …
Public administration reforms are required across EU
Dion Curry is a research fellow at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) and previously worked as a public sector consultant, evaluating European Union policies and programmes in areas such as human rights and social policy. What challenges do austerity policies pose …
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 …