Emmanuel Macron

4 October 2018

Macron Vs Orbán and Salvini: the debate on Twitter between openness and closure

By Martina Zaghi

On August 28 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán flew to Milan to meet Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. We followed the public discussion on Twitter related to the meeting, collecting and analyzing messages, retweets and comments.

3 April 2018

Germany’s leadership role in the Eurozone revisited: past and present

By Siegfried Schieder and Claudia Guarneri

Notions such as ‘leadership’ or ‘hegemony’ suggest that without a strong Germany to enforce the Eurozone’s fiscal restrictions, the implementation of difficult albeit necessary structural reforms would not be successful at preserving the Euro. However, is it justified to view Germany as a leading power during the Eurozone crisis? Moreover, what does the new German government mean for the Eurozone’s ambitious plans for deeper economic integration?

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.

«Economic solidarity among the member states still seems to be a rather established principle, while EU policy intervention is instead, on average, a relatively more contested solution»

Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Macron

Macron Vs Orbán and Salvini: the debate on Twitter between openness and closure

Germany’s leadership role in the Eurozone revisited: past and present

Emmanuel Macron: a leader who speaks up for Europe

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