VICE News: Profiles Zoophilia is having a weird renaissance in Europe. Perhaps ironically, it kicked off when activists succeeded in banning the practice in places like Germany and Norway. In the background, something else emerged simultaneously: an animal-sex-tourism industry, which …
Questioning the merits of a referendum on British membership of the EU
John McCormick is Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Politics at the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University. He has published extensively on the politics of the EU, his most recent book being Why Europe Matters: The Case for the European Union. His …
Serbia & Montenegro Russia’s Trojan horse into the EU?
Dimitar Bechev (D.Phil, Oxford) teaches international politics at Sofia University and is affiliated with the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia. His former posts include the directorship of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ office in Bulgaria and lectureships at …
Independent Scotland
Norman Bonney is emeritus professor at Edinburgh Napier University. His recent publications are listed here and he tweets from @NormanBonne Scotland will hold an independence referendum on 18 September, but what would actually happen if voters opted to back independence from the UK? Norman …
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. …
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 …
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, …
Barroso in Brazil: A Never Ending Match?
Cinthia R Campos – PHD Candidate in Political Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE, Brazil). Recently visiting resercher at Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique (CEVIPOL), at ULB. The World Cup is over, but the ball is still rolling between …
EU and the Gulf Cooperation Council
In a moment where a lot of attention is being paid to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), it is also important to bear in mind that the European Union (EU) was also negotiating, for 10 years, a Free …