Analyses

The Analyses section provides brief research notes relating to four main streams: social media, political visions, public opinion and policy focus.

9 September 2018

Racism and integration – A dialogue between Maurizio Ferrera and Daniel Little

By Maurizio Ferrera and Daniel Little

Can we say that racism is not only a mental construct but a real property of the US economic, social and political structure?

3 September 2018

Regional, national, global: Mogherini’s take on migration

By Giulia Tercovich

The European response to the recent migration flows to the continent is everything but successful. Yet, the High Representative of the EU Foreign and Security Policy Federica Mogherini could be proud of a few initiatives started by the Union.

30 July 2018

Social policy without politics? Social Europe between de-politicization and economization

By Hugo Canihac and Francesco Laruffa

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.

23 July 2018

European Welfare Solidarity in Focus: High Support for European Social Safety Net

By Jürgen Gerhards

Europeans exhibit strong approval for the EU to support vulnerable individuals with little differences in approval rates between countries.

9 July 2018

Order in the Eurozone – A dialogue between Claus Offe and Maurizio Ferrera

By Maurizio Ferrera and Claus Offe

The German framing of the problem of the EMU and the EU is often described and criticized as an obsession with "order".

3 July 2018

The Battle of Ideas on the Euro Crisis through the lenses of ECB Inter-Meeting Speeches

By Federico Maria Ferrara

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.

30 June 2018

A dialogue on Europe: young leaders debate the present and future of the Union. Interview

By Alexander Damiano Ricci

From the analysis of the main political conflict lines tearing apart the EU, to the issue of populism. From the relation between economic and social Europe, to the evaluation of the European Pillar of Social Rights. Young leaders from the JEF, YES, AEGEE, ETUC and EYF, debate the state of the Union and possible developments in the upcoming months leading to the European Parliamentary elections of 2019.

26 June 2018

Against Euroscepticism: practice, don’t preach the EU

By Alessandro Pellegata and Francesco Visconti

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.

16 June 2018

Re-solidarizing Europe and defusing the crisis

By Maurizio Ferrera and Carlo Burelli

As famously argued by Max Weber, world images and visions can sometimes operate as switchmen, channelling historical developments towards new directions.

15 June 2018

MFF – Proposal for a stronger Europe?

By Niccolo Donati

The European Commission proposed to substantially change the allocation of different spending priorities. In general, the EU budget will reinforce the existing thematic priorities in the field of research, environmental policies, youth policies, migration and borders, security and external action.

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