Analyses

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

10 October 2016

Notes on the Europeanization of Twitter – Part I

By Giovanni Pagano

While intergovernmental EU events generate longer Twitter debates, discussions triggered by supranational events are more Europeanized in nature.

3 October 2016

Citizenship in post-Brexit Europe

By Glyn Morgan

One way for the EU to prevent post-Brexit disintegration could be to offer British nationals European citizenship—but with clear conditions attached.

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.

5 September 2016

The end of the European left? Alternatives after crisis, Syriza and Brexit

By David Bailey

Rather than clinging to traditional notions of social Europe, European leftists should look at the continent’s emerging civil society experiments to find a way for the future.

31 August 2016

The many uncertainties of Brexit

By Luis Moreno Fernandez

After the Brexit referendum, the future of the United Kingdom looks very uncertain—in the short as well as the long term.

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.

4 August 2016

What explains German economic success – Is the model sustainable?

By Brigitte Young

Germany’s export-led model is hardly sustainable in the long run. Immigration, however, might stimulate a new domestic-growth model for the country and, as a result, an economic rebalancing of the Eurozone.

25 July 2016

Restricting access to social benefits and the lasting legacy of the Brexit debate

By Fancesco Costamagna

In an attempt to accommodate some of the United Kingdom’s requests, the European Court of Justice has created a dangerous precedent for the EU’s freedom of movement.

21 July 2016

EU-related discussions in the Spanish elections: A Twitter study

By Francesca Arcostanzo and Pier Domenico Tortola

Spanish electoral discussions in 2015 and 2016 displayed surprisingly little Europeanization. The only exception to this trend was the Brexit issue, whose effects on the Spanish vote, however, remain unclear.

15 July 2016

Family, neighbourhood community or a partnership among strangers? A conversation on the EU

By Michael Best and Maurizio Ferrera

In “The Germanization of Europe”, Maurizio Ferrera reproaches Germany for not treating its EU partners like members of a family. But family entails responsibilities as well as solidarity.

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Analyses

Analyses

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