Policy focus 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.
Policy focus 27 March 2017 Anti-Capitalist, Illiberal, Eurosceptic: The Puzzles of Post-Socialist Europe – Part III By Igor Guardiancich Post-socialist Europe has witnessed the rise of an Eastern brand of Euroscepticism, more concerned with power-grabbing at home than with bringing down the EU.
Policy focus 23 January 2017 Anti-Capitalist, Illiberal, Eurosceptic: The Puzzles of Post-Socialist Europe – Part II By Igor Guardiancich The second instalment of our series on Central and Eastern Europe analyzes the decline of post-socialist democracies and its causes
Policy focus 7 November 2016 Anti-Capitalist, Illiberal, Eurosceptic: The puzzles of Post-Socialist Europe – Part I By Igor Guardiancich After two decades of avant-gardist neoliberalism, post-socialist Central Europe reversed course, espousing “exclusive solidarity”, the key policy orientation of the radical right.
Policy focus 19 September 2016 The travails and rebirth of social dialogue in the post-crisis EU By Igor Guardiancich While there are signs that social dialogue has been revitalized after the euro crisis, its full recovery as a policy-making tool is yet to come.