Omar G. Encarnación is Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, New York, where he teaches comparative politics and Iberian and Latin American studies. He is the author of Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. How …
EU & Morocco
Iván Martín is Senior Research Fellow at the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB) and Part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Center of the European University Institute in Florence. He has followed EU-Morocco relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy for …
Central bank governors in EU & political affiliations
Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik is a visiting researcher at Leiden University. He can be contacted at: l.ennser-jedenastik@fsw.leidenuniv.nl Over recent decades it has become the norm for central banks to be made formally independent from governments and political actors. Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik writes that despite this insulation …
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 …
Spending the European Regional Development Fund
Jale Tosun is Assistant Professor of International Comparative Political Economy at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her research interests comprise a wide range of topics in comparative public policy and political economy as well as political decision-making in the European …
Pirate MEP visits Pirate Bay founder in Prison
Julia Reda, German Pirate Party member of the European Parliament It’s a summer day in one of Sweden’s most popular holiday areas, but I’m not here to enjoy the sunshine. I’m about to go to jail. Västervik Norra, a medium-security …
Not one European city in the top 10 for tech talent
Silvia Merler, affiliate fellow at Bruegel think tank Two recent LinkedIn analyses show some interesting facts about work-related migration in the 21st century and how this reshapes the world’s economic environment. The data shows that European countries tend to …
EU funding for civil society organisations
Rosa Sanchez Salgado is an Assistant Professor of European Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam. Her previous research has principally focused on efforts by EU institutions, above all the Commission, to shape civil society organisations. A number of civil society organisations …
EU considers response to Russia’s agricultural sanctions
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union issued a Press Release today concerning its Russia sanctions, stating that: 1) The grounds for the imposition of restrictive measures against the Russian Federation “remain valid”. …
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. …