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Published in: Home29 April: Muammar Gaddafi’s ghost bites backToday’s instalment of Marlière Across La Manche continues with a short survey of media coverage of the French...
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Published in: Home28 April: Which Europe?Europe has featured in most candidates’ speeches and proposals. But which one? Today’s instalment of Marlière Across...
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Published in: HomeReinstating trust in the Greek psyche
The Greek reality encourages an ‘every man for himself’ mentality in everyday life – which in turn opens the way to...
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Published in: Home26 April: Mass rallies are backDespite previous predictions of voter apathy and dull campaigns, we are witnessing a real presidential race — with...
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Published in: HomeThe fall and future of Dutch neo-liberal nationalism
The collapse of budget negotiations and the upcoming elections in Holland provide opportunities for the emergence of...
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Published in: HomeBosnia and Herzegovina and Europeanization: between ethnic-national and European identities
'Europeanization' is not just an effect of EU membership: it applies to aspiring countries too, especially those...
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Published in: Home25 April: Marshall Pétain puts in a cameo appearanceThe rapprochement of the traditional right with its extreme is progressing fast, with the “de-demonisation” of the...
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Published in: Home24 April: What will Marine Le Pen’s voters do?The president has confessed that if he had not matched Le Pen’s hard-right rhetoric, he would by now find himself in...
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Published in: Home23 April: Nicolas Sarkozy fights for his political lifeCharles de Gaulle once said that the French presidential election was “an encounter between the nation and a man”...
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Published in: HomeYPF in the worldThe sudden expropriation of Argentina’s YPF’s oil firm has stirred alarm across Spain, the EU and international...
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Published in: HomeEuropean publics, desperately seeking European politics
The scope and seriousness of communication about Europe, and concurrent growing demands for European democracy from...
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Published in: HomeGreece and the new pan-European value - profit
The fact that the Union’s upper echelons do not want to dig deeper for Greece in the name of accountability, name...
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Published in: HomeThe far right takes root in EuropeAnders Behring Breivik’s attacks are part of a worrying trend in Europe of the far right’s rise within mainstream...
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Published in: openEconomyThe Eurozone’s politics according to the Financial Times
In the last two years newspapers have been promising more or less the same thing to Eurozone citizens: collapse,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Günter Grass, antisemitism and the inflation of evil
The Israel factor has politicised the business of assessing antisemitism such that the vitriolic disagreement...
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Published in: HomeThe rise of Dutch neo-liberal nationalism
Who gets the blame for the ongoing social effects of the coalition’s love for neo-liberal principles? The culprits...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Pretzel swastikas and Döner killings: are Germany’s best intentions becoming its fatal flaw?
The importance attached to maintaining the narrative of a tolerant Germany elides some uglier cultural symbolism -...
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Published in: HomeFrance: a politics out of time
The tragedy in Toulouse has changed the atmosphere of France's presidential-election campaign. The emergence of a...
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Published in: HomeThe debate France urgently needs after the Toulouse attacks
In 'sensitive urban zones' where a third of residents live below the poverty line and unemployment among young...
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Published in: HomeEuropean alternatives: trajectories of mobilisation responding to Europe’s crisis
The political culture that supported global and European civil society activism in the 1999-2007 period -...