This page shows a continually updated list of the past month’s twenty most popular blog posts by readership.
- Turkey’s urban uprising has smashed the national wall of fear 1,418 view(s) | posted on June 4, 2013
- Five minutes with Ulrich Beck: “Germany has created an accidental empire” 961 view(s) | posted on March 25, 2013
- The German Greens are likely to be the new ‘kingmakers’ in the 2013 federal elections. 814 view(s) | posted on March 28, 2013
- The European economic crisis has coincided with a decline in press freedom in the EU. 813 view(s) | posted on May 27, 2013
- Leaving the EU will not only fail to secure what Eurosceptics desire but would likely make the UK’s position worse 812 view(s) | posted on May 23, 2013
- Why the 2014 European Parliament elections will be about more than protest votes 792 view(s) | posted on June 3, 2013
- Turkey’s ongoing protests may yet lead to a backlash from the government’s supporters and a new ‘Turkish winter’ 788 view(s) | posted on June 13, 2013
- Quantitative easing does not address the fundamental problems underpinning struggling western economies. 616 view(s) | posted on March 4, 2013
- Europe is home to some of the world’s most incomprehensible national constitutions. 592 view(s) | posted on June 4, 2013
- The decline in party membership across Europe means that political parties need to reconsider how they engage with the electorate. 515 view(s) | posted on May 6, 2013
- Children with politically engaged parents are more likely to deviate from their parents’ political views in adulthood. 508 view(s) | posted on May 17, 2013
- Under the EU’s proposed Financial Transactions Tax, non-participating member states may bear the burden of deeper tax integration without reaping the benefits. 497 view(s) | posted on May 28, 2013
- Designing a new UK-EU relationship and how it could be achieved 465 view(s) | posted on June 12, 2013
- Sweden has effectively used bilateral co-operation with the US and other European states as an alternative to NATO membership. 457 view(s) | posted on May 20, 2013
- France has almost entirely failed in its strategy to prevent English taking over as the lingua franca of the EU. 448 view(s) | posted on May 14, 2013
- European broadsheets pay regular attention to the European Parliament between EU elections 445 view(s) | posted on May 30, 2013
- Water prices in Europe need to rise substantially to encourage more sustainable water consumption 423 view(s) | posted on October 31, 2012
- If Europe is to tackle its demographic decline it should take lessons from the USA’s comprehensive immigration reforms. 403 view(s) | posted on May 21, 2013
- Slovakia has abolished its flat tax rate, but other Eastern and Central European countries are likely to continue with the policy. 387 view(s) | posted on March 18, 2013
- Religion can both hurt and enhance democratic attitudes. 382 view(s) | posted on May 21, 2013
