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22 May 2017

Pensions and the European Semester: From National to Supranational Policy Domain?

By Igor Guardiancich and Mattia Guidi

The European Semester has proved to be more powerful than expected in shaping national pension debates and outcomes.

28 October 2016

Juncker’s SOTEU 2016: Solidarity, Innovation, and Political Action

By Pamela Pansardi

Juncker’s latest State of the European Union speech was less emotional and more pragmatic than the previous one. This might be the result of the EU’s political crisis.

17 October 2016

Brexit: Ready for a long goodbye?

By Lorenzo Vai

The UK will take its time in bidding farewell to the European Union, for procedural as well as political reasons.

11 August 2016

Revising the posted workers directive: A controversial symbol for the future of social Europe

By Christos Louvaris Fasois

The proposal for the revision of the Posted Workers Directive has rekindled the old debate between economic freedom and social rights, and that between old and new member states.

26 May 2016

The Public Consultation on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Political Manoeuvre or Real Will?

By Angie Gago

Can the new public consultation process on the European Pillar of Social Rights help revamp the European social model?

6 April 2016

The Executive Deficit of the European Union

By Sergio Fabbrini

The oft-repeated mantra of “more coordination” is unlikely to provide a real solution to Europe’s political crises unless the EU’s dual executive architecture is first democratized and rationalized.

1 February 2016

The European Court of Auditors annual report: handling precautions

By Niccolo Donati

In its last report on the EU budget, the European Court of Auditors invokes “a wholly new approach” to investments and spending from the European Commission as well as the member states.

25 January 2016

Renzi vs Juncker: A social media analysis

By Giovanni Pagano, Alexander Damiano Ricci and Pier Domenico Tortola

The recent war of words between Matteo Renzi and Jean-Claude Juncker, triggered by the latter’s critical remarks towards Italy is only the latest, and certainly one of the most visible episodes in what some have called a new fault line in European politics.

18 January 2016

Juncker’s State of the Union: towards more communicative discourse in the EU?

By Pamela Pansardi

This article compares the State of the Union address recently delivedered by Jean-Claude Juncker with those of his predecessor Barroso. The analysis reveals interesting differences in the political discourse of the two Commission presidents.

9 January 2016

The 2016 Annual Growth Survey: A step closer to the Semester as imagined in the Five Presidents’ Report?

By Christos Louvaris Fasois

In his October 2014 speech before the European Parliament for the approval of the new Commissioners, Jean-Claude Juncker highlighted the necessity to adopt a more balanced approach between social and economic policies.

«We believe that ambitions to make EU citizenship the fundamental status of member state nationals goes too far in a supranational direction. EU cooperation between states should be seen as a supplement to cooperation between citizens at the national level»

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