debating progressive politics in Europe and beyond
This is in a way an unusual column as it doesn’t argue anything. Rather it presents my next research idea on which I will work academically at LSE over the next months. It is also a test for whether publishing the basic idea first is a good way to get some initial feedback and create [...]
The Romanian think tank European Institute for Participative Democracy (Qvorum) has published an influence ranking of the new European Parliament (EP) allocating points for key positions such as group leaders, committee chairmen, heads of delegations, … The researchers’ conclusion: Germany is over-represented in those key positions. The problem I have with this study is not [...]
New book edited by STANISLAWA GOLINOWSKA, PETER HENGSTENBERG and MACIEJ ZUKOWSKI The full book can be downloaded here: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/warschau/06223.pdf This collaborative study has the ambitious goal of providing a new interpretation and analysis of European social policy since the »Eastern« enlargement of the European Union in 2004 and 2007. It covers six countries, three of [...]
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