Three weeks can be an awfully long time in politics. Last Thursday, Matteo Renzi, the new leader of Italy’s Democratic Party (PD) – the largest member of the country’s ruling coalition – announced that…
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Apart from a sensational winning goal, the main memory I have of the 1992 European Cup Final between Barcelona and Sampdoria is a moment in the second half when the camera panned to the man in the crowd…
For those who don’t know it, Godwin’s law says that the longer an online discussion continues, the greater the probability of someone making a comparison involving the Nazis or Hitler. Of course, how long…
I have a confession to make. In some ways, I admire Silvio Berlusconi. Sure, he has been disastrous for Italy’s economy and its democracy. But, as a political animal, he has qualities which I (grudgingly…
Sometimes, there’s just no escaping populism. Coming back from a conference on “Democracy and Populism” in Sofia last Sunday evening, I picked up a copy of The Economist. After three enjoyable but long…
Colpevole. Guilty. On a hot August Thursday evening in Rome, after two decades of investigations and trials - many of which he escaped due to laws passed by his own governments – Silvio Berlusconi was…
“You’re on the very edge of Europe right here,” I said. “What about Iceland, Dad?” “Never mind about Iceland and just enjoy the view, will you?” We were at Dún Aonghasa on the Aran Islands where we spent…
“My cat scratched me in the eye a few months ago. It was pretty bad”, said my colleague as we stood outside a bar one evening in Amsterdam last week, “But, you know, he’s had a hard time. He was an orphan…
A few months ago I took my nine-year old daughter to see Fiorentina play Inter Milan. It was her first time going to a big match and, as we walked to the Artemio Franchi stadium in the suburbs of Florence…
Emergency over. Nothing to see here folks. Move on. That was more or less the message on Tuesday morning from Italy’s main newspapers. They were talking about the supposedly poor results of the Movimento…
Plamen Oresharski. You might not have heard of him. I certainly hadn’t until a few days ago. But, according to reports, he may become the next unelected, non-party prime minister in Europe. Or the “Bulgarian…
We’ve never been to one or the other, but we presume that Silvio Berlusconi’s and Bob Katter’s house parties are pretty different affairs. Their political parties are another matter, however. The former…
Margaret Thatcher, Baroness of Kesteven, has died of a stroke aged 87. The first female prime minister of the United Kingdom, Thatcher held office between 1979 and 1990 before being removed in an internal…
“Paris is worth a mass”, replied my friend, citing Henry IV’s probably apocryphal comment on his conversion to Catholicism in order to break the religious impasse in sixteenth-century France. She was explaining…
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Research Associate, European University Institute
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Max Weber Fellow in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute
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Part-time Professor, Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute
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PhD researcher, European University Institute
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Postdoctoral Researcher, European University Institute
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Postdoctoral research fellow, European University Institute
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Professor and Chair in Political and Social Change, European University Institute
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Part time Assistant Professor, Migration Policy Centre & Lecturer in Politics, University of Vienna, European University Institute
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Professor of Digital Politics, Economy and Societies at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute
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Research Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, European University Institute
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Head of the Mediterranean Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
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Max Weber Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute
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Postdoctoral research associate, European University Institute
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Max Weber Fellow in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute
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PhD Candidate, Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute
