Political visions 5 March 2018 Snubbed and impoverished by the élites? Why voters back populists in France and Italy By Maurizio Ferrera EuVisions’ Director, Maurizio Ferrera, and Marc Lazar, professor at Sciences Po and LUISS University in Rome, met in Milan on the occasion of a meeting organised by the Foundation Corriere della Sera Milano, to discuss populism in Europe.
Social media 2 March 2018 Delocalisation in the EU: the Embraco case on Twitter By Martina Zaghi, Giovanni Pagano and Francesca Arcostanzo EuVisions collected all conversations about the Embraco case that took place in the Italian Twitter-sphere between February 10 to 25, for a total amount of 50,984 tweets sent by 14,251 users. Many negative opinions were specifically addressed to the EU institutions and actors.
Survey data 14 February 2018 Everyone fell in love with the EU again, but Italy By Alessandro Pellegata What is the mood of European citizens towards the European Union (EU) after the recent turbulent years marked by economic recession, increasing migration flows and Brexit?
Political visions 5 February 2018 Emmanuel Macron: a leader who speaks up for Europe By Federico Bruno Moving from the analysis of his Sorbonne speech, this article intends to offer an overall assessment of Macron's ideas on Europe under the light of the four cleavages that structure European politics: market-correcting versus market-making, solidarity versus responsibility, free movement versus national closure, and integration versus autonomy.
Survey data 30 January 2018 European Union, should I stay or should I go? By Alessandro Pellegata The PEW Research Center in its Global Attitudes Survey conducted in Spring of 2017 asked European citizens if they want to stay in the EU or leave it.
Policy focus 16 January 2018 The Future of the ESM: Towards a Deeper Economic and Monetary Union? By Federico Bruno The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is currently undertaking a process of reform. Although a broad consensus exists about the need to extend its functions and to turn it into a European Monetary Fund (EMF), the nature of its future tasks is far from uncontested.
Public opinion 15 December 2017 Once we were friends. EU support and reciprocal views between Germany and Italy By Alessandro Pellegata and Francesco Olmastroni The Eurozone crisis and austerity measures are damaging not only public support for the EU but also the stock of mutual trust and respect among European citizens.
Survey data 4 May 2017 The REScEU Mass Survey – Infographic #8: Images of the European Union By Alessandro Pellegata We proposed four different metaphors that the media and commentators often adopt to describe the Union, and we asked our respondents to choose the one that comes closest to their view.
Survey data 27 April 2017 The REScEU Mass Survey – Infographic #7: Do we need more or less integration? By Alessandro Pellegata To investigate the REScEU fourth divide, between integration and autonomy, we asked respondents whether and to what extent they would like to see more or less European integration, by positioning themselves on a scale from 0 to 10.
Survey data 9 March 2017 The REScEU mass survey – Infographic #1: The Mission of the European Union By Alessandro Pellegata This question aims to investigate respondents’ opinions on the first of REScEU's four divides, which separates actors and ideas supporting Europe as a neoliberal and market-enhancing project, from those in favour of correcting market forces in the name of solidarity.