Public opinion 12 March 2018 National elites and EU economic governance: the art of cherry-picking solidarity By Luca Verzichelli and Francesco Marangoni Politicians still tend to support consensual solutions to the problems of EU economy. However, a polarization is emerging across countries and, above all, across parties. Moreover, being supportive of some kind of burden sharing does not necessarily mean being ready to delegate the economic policies to the EU institutions
Public opinion 24 January 2018 Mind the gap: effects of online deliberation on the EU public-elite divide By Francesco Olmastroni and Linda Basile Online deliberation offers a new tool to study how citizens and politicians can and should communicate, with the purpose of reducing the gap between the two sides.