Published on by Ideas on Europe | Comments Off on The search for a coherent strategic diplomacy in EU foreign policy
What is the most important lesson that the European External Action Service should take from the ‘Arab Spring’ ? In an interview by Cristian Nitoiu from Loughborough University, Professor Michael Smith evaluates the development of the External Actions and the goal of creating a coherent strategic diplomacy within the European Union’s foreign policy.
Published on by blog | Comments Off on Is German Dominance of the ECB Responsible for sub-optimal Monetary Policy in the Eurozone?
By Sarah Fuchs German dominance over the European Central Bank (ECB) is nowhere more apparent than in the price stability goal of inflation at or below 2% enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty. A notable success in postwar Germany was the excellent record of the Bundesbank on maintaining price stability, which represented an important break with […]
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We are thinking about the future for the platform and we need the help or our readers! We would very much appreciate if you could spare a few minutes and complete our short survey here. The main questions of our evaluation are quite straightforward: How can we improve ideasoneurope regarding content, design and technology? What […]
A guest post by Jacob Christensen* in our series of blogging academics. Check out the rest of the series here and here. If you are an academic (European studies, social science, humanities etc) with a blog and you would like to share your views about blogging and social media here – please contact us via […]
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Guest post by Anamaria Dutceac Segesten* “Publish or perish”: Academia has its own jungle law. To thrive (or even to survive, it feels like occasionally) one needs to produce texts and in this case I mean specifically texts as words (images, videos, audio presentations are not yet acceptable). Articles, book chapters, monographs, conference papers, working […]
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Guest post by Anamaria Dutceac Segesten* When I first told my undergraduate students that we will have a blog connected to the one of their first semester courses, they looked at me with incredulity. A blog? Why, a blog can have nothing to do with academia, right? Well, wrong, was my reply. I have written […]
Published on by blog | Comments Off on Treaty of Lisbon Evaluated – external action provisions no/low impact
The discussion at the Treaty of Lisbon Evaluated conference has seen a clear convergence of view that the provisions on external action have been of minimal impact to-date. The most optimistic readings of its provisions are that it is too early to judge – the more pessimistic (and majority view) is little real substantive change. […]
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Doreen Allerkamp Who leads the European Union – or even “Europe”? A weighty question indeed – and thankfully not one that preoccupies only the members of this particular panel. Indeed, as well-regarded and experienced a figure as former MEP Richard Corbett has recently asked it again (Corbett, “Who Leads the European Union?” European Voice, January […]
Kenneth Armstrong, Queen Mary University of London Uwe Puetter has written a fascinating article due to come out in the Journal of European Public Policy this year that relates to the role of the European Council and the Council in giving leadership to economic governance. His essential argument is that in the absence of formal […]
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