Anders Sundell is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science and Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg. Sweden will hold a general election on 14 September. With one month to go until the vote, Anders Sundell presents …
Can You Speak Commission?
Susannah Savage, Columnist @Swizz677 “At what time will be ze reunion?” my friend Taran asks me in a thick French accent, which would be cute were Taran not from Leicester. The European Commission goes one step beyond the acronyms, abbreviations and …
Foreign Affairs Council calls for an Extraordinary meeting
During the roundtable meeting the European ministers will discuss the situation in the Southern neighbourhood (notably Iraq) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCZzpmbEcs and the Eastern neighbourhood (Ukraine)
One Russian’s reaction to economic sanctions
At the EU Bubble we have reported a lot about western side of economic sanctions, but little about Russia’s reaction to the sanctions. One russian man was so furious by the economic sanctions imposed upon his nation that he smashed an …
Right to Work Petition
Every European Citizen has the right to work. Without having proper access to work they do not have the full dignity of citizens. Among other things, the right to work refers to the creation of jobs, putting an end to …
Less than 36.8% of MEPs are female
Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán is an Assistant Professor and based at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. Her work focuses on social and political philosophy and feminist theory. Procedures for raising the number of female politicians in parliaments and governments have been …
The death of European states
Dimitris Ballas is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. Benjamin Hennig is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geography and the …
EU seeks Latin American food embargo on Russia
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. On 11 August 2014, the EU was reported to be planning talks to dissuade Latin American countries from providing Russia with agricultural produce, after Russia imposed retaliatory food import …
Poundzone vs Eurozone
Waltraud Schelkle is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. She is particularly interested in the political economy of European monetary integration and the role of financial markets for social policy. One …