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, …
Europe is witnessing the establishment of a new regional order
Igor Calzada is Lecturer & Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (UK) and Ikerbasque (Basque Science Foundation, Spain). He is an expert in research and policy-making projects on city-regional policies, social innovation, territorial development and strategies and governance. …
European Parliament staff: who are they and do their backgrounds influence decision-making?
Morten Egeberg is a Professor of Public Policy and Administration in the Department of Political Science and ARENA – Centre for European Studies, at the University of Oslo. Åse Gornitzka is a Professor of Public Policy and Administration in the …
When the Bubble Bursts
Susannah Savage, Columnist @Swizz677 ‘How much’ I gasp loudly looking at the horrendously unreasonable amount TfL is asking me for a weekly London travel pass, mentally revolting and taking a vow of nil by public transport. Dramatically I mouth expletives and …
Welcome to the Bubble, Mrs. Mogherini
Jan Techau, DIRECTOR, CARNEGIE EUROPE The hearing for Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief designate, in the European Parliament on October 6 was a deeply ambiguous event for all foreign policy observers. Not that ambiguity is a scarce commodity in Brussels; foreign policy …
Why Europe needs a digital single market
By Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google. Innovation isn’t easy. It takes courage to experiment and advance a new idea and determination to ensure its widespread use. Europe has always excelled at this. Radio, television, and the standard for second-generation mobile …
Outnumbered on the Western Front
Susannah Savage, Columnist @Swizz677 One of the many joys of being a trainee in the European Commission is being able to socialise in the international melting pot of the European bubble, to gluttonously gorge on a feast of cultures and languages, …
Sarkozy’s return to politics
Françoise Boucek is a Lecturer in European Politics and Policy in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London and an Associate of the LSE Public Policy Group. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced his …
Radical-right MEPs focus more on giving speeches
Marley Morris is a researcher at Counterpoint on the Recapturing Europe’s Reluctant Radicals project. He has a combined Masters in Maths and Philosophy from the University of Oxford. Prior to his work at Counterpoint Marley was at the Violence and Extremism …
First MEP to use Vine?
A newly elected Lithuanian liberal MEP Antanas Guoga has been using Vine video to promote #ASKteamJuncker Will his Vine gamble pay off as well as playing poker, only time will tell.