Economic crisis

4 September 2017

Anti-system Eurosceptic parties: Where and why they succeed

By Eugenio Salvati and Michelangelo Vercesi

Empirical research on Euroscepticism should build on a clearer and more univocal definition of this phenomenon.

12 June 2017

Spain: A successful story of recovery from the crisis?

By Leandro Gago

Spain is often indicated as the poster child of EU-driven austerity and structural reforms. But is the country really a success story?

29 May 2017

The contraption” and the future of social democracy: The government experiment in Portugal

By Andre Barata and Renato Miguel Carmo

Something relatively obvious took too long to be acknowledged in Portuguese democracy: that there are more points of convergence than of divergence among the left wing parties.

12 May 2017

The emergence of territorial solidarity in the US during the Great Depression. What can the EU learn from it?

By Niccolo Donati

What can the EU learn from the American experience of interstate solidarity?

7 April 2017

Citizens’ views on inter-state solidarity and social Europe

By Alessandro Pellegata

Attitudes towards inter-state solidarity in the EU can be explained by nationality and political leaning. Preferences for a more social Europe, conversely, are more widespread.

4 January 2017

The crisis of democracy and the European Union

By Michele Salvati

Unlike what many think, Europe’s democratic problem has to do less with its representation mechanisms than with the output of its political processes.

19 December 2016

Inside the Troika’s (apparent) monolith

By Anna Viterbo

While the Troika is often presented by critics as a ruthless monolith, a closer glance reveals a different reality.

«The European social model and social market economy thus started to function together. This made room for a trans-partisan endorsement of both concepts»

Economic crisis

Economic crisis

Anti-system Eurosceptic parties: Where and why they succeed

Spain: A successful story of recovery from the crisis?

The contraption” and the future of social democracy: The government experiment in Portugal

The emergence of territorial solidarity in the US during the Great Depression. What can the EU learn from it?

Citizens’ views on inter-state solidarity and social Europe

The crisis of democracy and the European Union

Inside the Troika’s (apparent) monolith

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