Carmen Pavel (PhD, Brown University) is the author of Divided Sovereignty: International Institutions and the Limits of State Authority (Oxford University Press, 2014). She is an Associate Professor and the Associate Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, …
‘East-West divide’ on LGBT rights in Europe
Zselyke Csaky is a Research Analyst at Freedom House. Public opinion on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights has undergone a significant shift in Europe in recent decades; however there is still substantial variation in terms of the way …
Internal party struggles will form the backdrop to Romania’s presidential election
Roxana Mihaila is a Doctoral Researcher and Associate Tutor at the Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex. Her dissertation looks at the role of national political parties in EU decision-making, with a focus on the Lisbon and Fiscal Compact treaties. …
Spain is unlikely to veto an independent Scotland’s EU membership
Dani Cetrà is a Research Fellow at the Scottish Centre on Constitutional Change (SCCC). If Scotland votes to become independent on 18 September then it will seek to become a member state of the European Union. However some commentators have …
Scotland’s Place in Europe
Bartosz Raubo @braubo On the 18th of September, over 4 million of Scotland’s residents will vote to decide whether the country should secede from the United Kingdom to which it has been bound for over three centuries and forge its …
Ireland’s latest abortion scandal
Lisa Smyth is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast Ireland’s abortion laws have recently generated controversy following the case of a rape victim – ‘Ms Y’ – who was refused an abortion and instead gave birth by Caesarean …
Scotland’s transition to EU membership
Jo Murkens is Associate Professor in Law at the LSE. Dr Murkens was previously a researcher at the Constitution Unit, UCL, where he led the research on the legal, political and economic conditions and consequences of Scottish independence. Jo has …
The Real Threat to our Way of Life
Edward Lucas, Senior Fellow, Centre for European Policy Analysis (Washington DC) and Senior Editor, The Economist Written testimony to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, September 3rd, 2014 I have been dealing with European security for more than thirty …
Making sense of Europe’s Unitary Patent
Gwilym Roberts, Partner and Julia Venner, Associate, Kilburn & Strode, LLP, London, UK As a concept, a unitary European patent has been under discussion, in one form or another, for over four decades. In the last couple of years, however, there …
The Real Meaning of Mogherini
Federiga Bindi is a senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. “At times in foreign policy, we make mistakes …