20 March 2019

A discussion with Patrizia Toia, MEP of the S&D Group in the European Parliament

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In this podcast, we discuss the establishment of a European Social Union with Patrizia Toia, MEP of the Italian party Partito Democratico (PD), and member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) in the European Parliament.

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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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