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Tag Archives: European Union
Apr 26 2020
The European Ecological Transition in the ‘Post-Covid’ Era
Comments Off on The European Ecological Transition in the ‘Post-Covid’ EraBy Andrea Pérez Ruiz and Kilian Wirthwein Vega Only a few months ago, the Ifema congress centre in Madrid, now a field hospital, hosted the COP 25 climate summit, whose task was to close the rule book of the Paris … Continue reading
Posted by: April 26, 2020
Tagged with: Climate Change, Covid-19, European Commission, European Union, Green New Deal, green parties
Feb 20 2017
The European Union at a Crossroads
5 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi The European Union is approaching a moment of difficult decisions which will determine whether it will manage to survive in the near future or whether it will enter the final trajectory of its dissolution. In the past … Continue reading
Posted by: February 20, 2017
Tagged with: Angela Merkel, Crisis, Decline of Europe, EU, Euro crisis, Europe, European Central Bank, European Union, Euroscepticism, Eurozone, Italian decline, Italian economy, Italy, Renzi
May 7 2015
The Double Death of Europe
5 CommentsBy Adrian Pabst Introduction: the broken promise of peace and prosperity The continual crisis in the Eurozone and in Ukraine poses the most serious danger to Europe since the darkest days of the Cold War. Economic devastation in the south … Continue reading
Posted by: May 7, 2015
Tagged with: Accountability, Crisis, European identity, European integration, European Public Sphere, European Union, Euroscepticism, Eurozone, Eurozone crisis, Inequality, Islamic State, Nationalism, peace dividend, populism, Ukraine, unemployment
Mar 30 2015
Subterranean Politics in Europe after the Greek Elections
2 CommentsProfessor Mary Kaldor discusses activism, Europe and the aftermath of the Greek elections with Ludovica Rogers and Hara Kouki in a conversation organised by LSE’s Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in collaboration with Euro Crisis in the Press and with … Continue reading
Posted by: March 30, 2015
Tagged with: activism, Civil Society, EU, Euro crisis, Europe, European Union, Greece, Greek elections, Kaldor, LSE, politics, subterranean politics, SYRIZA
Mar 19 2015
Corporate Social Responsibility in an Era of Economic Crisis: Empty Gesture or Tool for Corporate Learning?
Comments Off on Corporate Social Responsibility in an Era of Economic Crisis: Empty Gesture or Tool for Corporate Learning?By Alvise Favotto and Kelly Kollman The social legitimacy of business actors in EU member states has waxed and waned over the past two decades. Levels of trust in business, as recorded in public opinion polls, tend to increase … Continue reading
Posted by: March 19, 2015
Tagged with: CSR, environment, European business, European Union, human rights, legitimacy, TNCs, Transparency
Mar 2 2015
Why participatory governance offers a realistic route to addressing the EU’s legitimacy crisis
Comments Off on Why participatory governance offers a realistic route to addressing the EU’s legitimacy crisisBy Karl-Oskar Lindgren How can EU decision-making be brought closer to Europe’s citizens? Based on a case study of the ‘REACH’ regulation governing the production and use of chemical substances, this posts argues for the potential of a participatory governance … Continue reading
Posted by: March 2, 2015
Tagged with: Civil Society, European Union, participatory democracy
Feb 2 2015
How the Eurozone crisis changed Syriza and how the party can change the Eurozone crisis
6 CommentsBy George Kyris For years, conventional wisdom has said that the role of the EU in national elections is rather insignificant. Even European Parliament elections are often regarded as ‘second order’, where voters use the ballot box in order to … Continue reading
Posted by: February 2, 2015
Tagged with: austerity, European Union, Eurozone crisis, Greece, Political Parties, SYRIZA
Nov 20 2014
Crisis Discourses in Europe: Media EU-phemisms and Alternative Narratives
3 CommentsBy Tamsin Murray-Leach It would be catastrophising to claim that euroscepticism won the European elections earlier this year – but it certainly staked a claim. Two years ago, we predicted the capturing of Europe by populist parties in our study of … Continue reading
Posted by: November 20, 2014
Tagged with: austerity, Election, EU, Euro, Euro crisis, European Elections 2014, European Public Sphere, European Union, Euroscepticism, media, populism, Public Sphere
Nov 11 2014
Time for the 89ers to Defend Europe
6 CommentsBy Henry Radice On the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the familiar rituals of remembrance feel particularly poignant in a year marking the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, yet itself scarred by a grim … Continue reading
Posted by: November 11, 2014
Tagged with: Berlin Wall, David Cameron, Euro crisis, European identity, European integration, European Union, Euroscepticism, frames, framing, Nigel Farage, populism, Remembrance Day
Nov 6 2014
The 1000 Day Agenda: Can Renzi Deliver?
1 CommentBy Giovanni Puglisi The young and dynamic Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is determined to change the way politics is perceived and conducted in Italy. He has promised to deliver an ambitious economic and institutional reform agenda, but his task … Continue reading
Posted by: November 6, 2014
Tagged with: Beppe Grillo, European Elections 2014, European Union, institutional reform, italian politics, Italy, Pier Luigi Bersani, Silvio Berlusconi