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 …
Intern Ever After
Susannah Savage, Columnist @Swizz677 We don’t get free tea and coffee in the Commission, tax payers will be delighted to know. Thus the queue for the coffee machines, where thoroughly unappetising coffee is only 30 cent, is normally very long. Recently …
Rosetta arrives at comet destination
After a decade-long journey chasing its target, ESA’s Rosetta has today become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, opening a new chapter in Solar System exploration. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and Rosetta now lie 405 million kilometres from Earth, about half …
Europe in a world dominated by Asia
Craig James Willy is an EU affairs writer and a journalist with the German Press Agency (DPA). He has notably written political analysis for the Bertelsmann Foundation and media analysis for the European Commission. His French-English blog is available here. Economic …
Switzerland stops Russians bypassing EU sanctions
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. On 5 August 2014, Switzerland announced that 26 entities and 18 individuals have been added to the Swiss watchlist, which is designed to prevent individuals and companies in …
Belorussian citizens on EU’s sanctions list
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. The European Union has published a notice informing people and companies targeted by the EU’s sanctions relating to Belarus. The individuals and companies concerned are those named in the Annex …
Excluding the growing camp of Eurosceptics
Oliver Treib is Professor of Comparative Public Policy Analysis and Research Methods at the University of Münster. The 2014 European Parliament elections saw an unprecedented level of support for Eurosceptic parties. Oliver Treib writes that the Eurosceptic vote cannot be dismissed as …
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 …
Democratic legitimacy & decisions at the EU
Sonia Alonso is a Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and editor of the Spanish political blog Agenda Pública. Juan Rodríguez Teruel is Lecturer in Political Science in the University of Valencia. His research focuses on political elites, …
The UK government must urgently overhaul its EU engagement strategy
Anthony Salamone is an incoming PhD candidate in British and EU politics at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include European integration, UK devolution and comparative politics. He is the author of Britain’s Europe, a weekly blog on British-EU politics …