Focus FOCUS 04/10/2018 On August 28 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán flew to Milan to meet Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. We followed the public discussion on Twitter related to the meeting, collecting and analyzing messages, retweets and comments. Twitter users’ reaction can be described within the framework of the so-called “horizontal” Europeanization of national public spheres. The concept depicts the increasing integration of the public debates between the EU countries, arising from a shared sense of belonging to the EU. Macron Vs Orbán and Salvini: the debate on Twitter between openness and closure Martina Zaghi 01/10/2018 Far-right parties across the Old Continent think of Europe as a nativist identity, rather than a political peace project. What the far-right thinks of Europe Marta Lorimer 17/09/2018 Socio-political tendencies and education both affect whether European citizens choose to show solidarity for refugees Refugees and individual solidarity: Social beliefs, political-ideological orientations and social traits Nicola Maggini 03/09/2018 While conclusions from the EU summit on migration have just come in, the Old Continent can look to Mogherini for advice. Regional, national, global: Mogherini’s take on migration Giulia Tercovich 30/07/2018 In the discourse of the European Commission and the European Parliament, social Europe has long been framed as a non-political, technical, economic issue. We need to re-politicize it. Social policy without politics? Social Europe between de-politicization and economization Hugo Canihac - Francesco Laruffa 23/07/2018 Europeans exhibit strong approval for the EU to support vulnerable individuals with little differences in approval rates between countries. European Welfare Solidarity in Focus: High Support for European Social Safety Net Jürgen Gerhards - Holger Lengfeld - Zsófia S. Ignácz - Maximilian Priem - Florian K. Kley 16/07/2018 As famously argued by Max Weber, world images and visions can sometimes operate as switchmen, channelling historical developments towards new directions. But ideas need political ‘carriers’. Today we see some promising ideas with potential popular support, but no available carrier. Re-solidarizing Europe and defusing the crisis Maurizio Ferrera - Carlo Burelli 03/07/2018 The narrative on sovereign debt issues has changed from being focused on the benefits from fiscal consolidation to highlighting the importance of addressing systemic risk and financial fragmentation in the EMU. The Battle of Ideas on the Euro Crisis through the lenses of ECB Inter-Meeting Speeches Federico Maria Ferrara 26/06/2018 This article elaborates the multidimensional concept of “EU-politanism”, which refers to respondent’s connections with citizens of other countries and their familiarity with the EU context. In recent Italian elections, voters with EU-politan experiences expressed less extreme positions on the EU and immigration. Against Euroscepticism: practice, don't preach the EU Alessandro Pellegata - Francesco Visconti
04/10/2018 On August 28 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán flew to Milan to meet Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. We followed the public discussion on Twitter related to the meeting, collecting and analyzing messages, retweets and comments. Twitter users’ reaction can be described within the framework of the so-called “horizontal” Europeanization of national public spheres. The concept depicts the increasing integration of the public debates between the EU countries, arising from a shared sense of belonging to the EU. Macron Vs Orbán and Salvini: the debate on Twitter between openness and closure Martina Zaghi 01/10/2018 Far-right parties across the Old Continent think of Europe as a nativist identity, rather than a political peace project. What the far-right thinks of Europe Marta Lorimer 17/09/2018 Socio-political tendencies and education both affect whether European citizens choose to show solidarity for refugees Refugees and individual solidarity: Social beliefs, political-ideological orientations and social traits Nicola Maggini 03/09/2018 While conclusions from the EU summit on migration have just come in, the Old Continent can look to Mogherini for advice. Regional, national, global: Mogherini’s take on migration Giulia Tercovich 30/07/2018 In the discourse of the European Commission and the European Parliament, social Europe has long been framed as a non-political, technical, economic issue. We need to re-politicize it. Social policy without politics? Social Europe between de-politicization and economization Hugo Canihac - Francesco Laruffa 23/07/2018 Europeans exhibit strong approval for the EU to support vulnerable individuals with little differences in approval rates between countries. European Welfare Solidarity in Focus: High Support for European Social Safety Net Jürgen Gerhards - Holger Lengfeld - Zsófia S. Ignácz - Maximilian Priem - Florian K. Kley 16/07/2018 As famously argued by Max Weber, world images and visions can sometimes operate as switchmen, channelling historical developments towards new directions. But ideas need political ‘carriers’. Today we see some promising ideas with potential popular support, but no available carrier. Re-solidarizing Europe and defusing the crisis Maurizio Ferrera - Carlo Burelli 03/07/2018 The narrative on sovereign debt issues has changed from being focused on the benefits from fiscal consolidation to highlighting the importance of addressing systemic risk and financial fragmentation in the EMU. The Battle of Ideas on the Euro Crisis through the lenses of ECB Inter-Meeting Speeches Federico Maria Ferrara 26/06/2018 This article elaborates the multidimensional concept of “EU-politanism”, which refers to respondent’s connections with citizens of other countries and their familiarity with the EU context. In recent Italian elections, voters with EU-politan experiences expressed less extreme positions on the EU and immigration. Against Euroscepticism: practice, don't preach the EU Alessandro Pellegata - Francesco Visconti