20 March 2019

A discussion with Karl-Heinz Lambertz, President of the Committee of the Regions

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In this podcast, we discuss the establishment of a European Social Union with Karl-Heinz Lambertz, President of the Committee of the Regions, one of the official EU advisory bodies and “voice of regions and cities in the EU”.

Photo credits CC Flickr: Congress of local and regional authorities

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20 January 2020

Europe and the welfare state in the debate about Italian budgetary law

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No more than one year ago, the Italian government – at the time supported by a Yellow Green majority, with the Five Star Movement and the League as main shareholders – and the EU Commission were fighting a long battle over the Italian national budget. With the EU denouncing the substantial imbalances in the Italian budget draft and the Conte cabinet defending its budget ‘for the people’, social policies and welfare were de facto bones of contention between Rome and Brussels. We use Twitter communication data to try to shed light on how the political debate on this topic unfolded.

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