The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. On 12 August 2014, Norway announced that it will join sanctions the EU has imposed on Russia over the situation in Ukraine. Although Norway is not part …
The Greek problems
Fotis Zygoulis is a PhD candidate at the University of Athens. He is also the Head of the Independent Planning and Design Department of the Municipality of Heraklion Attica. Elina Zagou is based at the County Court in Katerini, Greece. …
Trained to Schmooze
Susannah Savage, Columnist @Swizz677 Trainees are very unlikely to actually be employed by the European Commission. It would be far too simple if you completed a training period during which you proved yourself not to be an imbecile and were offered …
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 …
The danger of European populism
Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. The success of populist and Eurosceptic parties was one of the key narratives to emerge from the European Parliament elections in May. Ruth Wodak writes on the platforms which …
Intern Ever After
Susannah Savage, Columnist @Swizz677 We don’t get free tea and coffee in the Commission, tax payers will be delighted to know. Thus the queue for the coffee machines, where thoroughly unappetising coffee is only 30 cent, is normally very long. Recently …
Rosetta arrives at comet destination
After a decade-long journey chasing its target, ESA’s Rosetta has today become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, opening a new chapter in Solar System exploration. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and Rosetta now lie 405 million kilometres from Earth, about half …
Europe in a world dominated by Asia
Craig James Willy is an EU affairs writer and a journalist with the German Press Agency (DPA). He has notably written political analysis for the Bertelsmann Foundation and media analysis for the European Commission. His French-English blog is available here. Economic …
Switzerland stops Russians bypassing EU sanctions
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. On 5 August 2014, Switzerland announced that 26 entities and 18 individuals have been added to the Swiss watchlist, which is designed to prevent individuals and companies in …