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Category Archives: Europp
May 25 2013
If Europe is to tackle its demographic decline it should take lessons from the USA’s comprehensive immigration reforms
Leave a commentTweet With declining birth rates and an ageing population, Europe is facing the threat of a demographic decline by the middle of the century. Facing similar challenges, the US has recently moved to reform its immigration policies, thus allowing greater … Continue reading
Posted by: May 25, 2013
Tagged with: demographics
May 18 2013
Five minutes with Saskia Sassen: “The issue right now is not the lack of discipline in Eurozone economies; it’s the financialisation of everything”
Leave a commentTweet Has the Eurozone crisis undermined Europe’s place in the world? In an interview with EUROPP’s editors Stuart A Brown and Chris Gilson, Saskia Sassen discusses the role of finance in the crisis, the threat posed by transnational systems of … Continue reading
Posted by: May 18, 2013
May 18 2013
France has almost entirely failed in its strategy to prevent English taking over as the lingua franca of the EU
Leave a commentTweet Prior to the accession of the United Kingdom to the European Economic Community in 1973, the French language held a privileged position as a lingua franca of the Community. David Fernández Vítores assesses the demise of the French language’s … Continue reading
Posted by: May 18, 2013
May 11 2013
The decline in party membership across Europe means that political parties need to reconsider how they engage with the electorate
Leave a commentTweet Is party membership still an important part of European political systems? Ingrid van Biezen outlines results from a study, co-authored with Peter Mair and Thomas Poguntke, of party membership rates in 27 European democracies. She notes that party membership … Continue reading
Posted by: May 11, 2013
May 4 2013
A wider debate on how Europe shapes British policy making is now needed
1 CommentTweet The UK’s forty-year relationship with the EU and its predecessors has seen a significant integration of EU policies into the UK’s institutional culture. Janice Morphet looks at how the UK has implemented EU legislation in recent decades, finding that … Continue reading
Posted by: May 4, 2013
May 2 2013
Poor economic performance may leave the UK with no choice but to join the euro if it wishes to remain in the EU
Leave a commentTweet In light of the Eurozone crisis, many commentators in the UK maintain that the Eurozone and the EU are doomed. Recalling the UK’s desire to remain apart from embryonic attempts towards European integration in the 1950s, Tim Bale argues … Continue reading
Posted by: May 2, 2013
Tagged with: European integration, euroscepticism
May 2 2013
The ‘Norwegian model’ would be a poor alternative to EU membership for the UK
4 CommentsTweet Norway is not a member of the European Union, but participates in the single market and other areas of the integration process as a member of the European Economic Area. Erna Solberg, the leader of the Conservative Party of … Continue reading
Posted by: May 2, 2013
Tagged with: EEA, European Union, Norway model
Apr 27 2013
Five minutes with William Outhwaite: “The chic ultra-right populism of Geert Wilders and others is certainly worrying”
Leave a commentTweet As part of our on-going Thinkers on Europe series, EUROPP’s editors Stuart A Brown and Chris Gilson spoke to Professor of Sociology William Outhwaite about the EU’s democratic deficit, the rise of the far-right, and whether sociologists should do more to engage with … Continue reading
Posted by: April 27, 2013
Tagged with: Europe, William Outhwaite
