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Václav Klaus live and unplugged
A few years ago I honestly told myself that I would spend less time academically on Czech right-wing politics and more time on other things. The world really did, after all, need some decent research about Central European interest groups … Continue reading
Posted in Czech politics, Czech Republic, EU politics, Václav Klaus
Tagged Czech, czechoslovakia, Euro, European integration, euroscepticism, eurozone, Vacav Klaus
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Europe as antipolitics machine
The customers in this Westminster café seem a strange mix of suited civil servants and builders in boots and hi-vis. But it’s worth the early start and the cup of industrial strength tea to beat a path back to the … Continue reading
Posted in academia, EU politics, Ireland, protest, W European politics
Tagged antipolitics, crisis, democracy, ECB, Euro, Europe, European Commission, eurozone, Greece, Ireland, political parties, politics, populism, protest, technocracy, technocrats, UCD
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God save the Queen – and the EU governance regime
How do you celebrate the Jubilee? Given the choice between watching Prince Charles on TV, mowing the grass or reviewing a book about Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union, I knew what I would go for. There is … Continue reading
Europe’s loose change
It has to be the single oldest thing in the entire house: a silver one Gulder piece from the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy minted in 1878, given as a curio to one of the kids by a Czech relative. About … Continue reading
Posted in Czech politics, EU politics, euroscepticism, history
Tagged austriahungary, coins, EU, Europe, European integration, habsburg, integration, money
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Eurozone politics: Black, no sugar
The European Council for Foreign Relations stages a Black Coffee Morning event on European Politics after the EU Summit. I have mine white, but from the general tone of the discussion among thinktankers, politicians and journos the prospects for the … Continue reading
Posted in economic crisis, EU politics, Germany
Tagged central and eastern europe, ecfr, EU, eurozone, Germany, Poland
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EU Czechs and balances
I’m sitting listening to Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg. I look up occasionally at the map on the wall and wonder what projection it is. Europe seems big and fat compared to the more politically correct/geographically accurate cartography I usually … Continue reading
Posted in Czech Republic, economic crisis, EU politics, euroscepticism, Slovakia, TOP09, Uncategorized, Václav Havel
Tagged Chathamhouse, Czech Republic, EU, eurozone, schwarzenberg
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European integration: A view from 1943
The internet has pretty much done for the traditional second-hand bookshop. I used to know of a least a dozen within half an hour’s walk in Brighton. Now I can only think of a couple. And besides, these days I … Continue reading
Posted in EU politics, Germany, left-wing politics
Tagged EU, Europe, European integration, Germany
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>EU enlargement: The glass Füle than you might think?
> EU Enlargement Commission Štefan Füle comes to Chatham House and along with a fairly large, most diplomatic, audience of 60 other people I go to hear him. The relatively large number of attendees means that the Chatham House rule … Continue reading
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>British Tories’ Luxembourg allies slip in unnoticed
> As an occasional follower of developments in the British Tory-led European Reformers (ECR) group in the European Parliament, I was intrested to discover that the latest addition to the ECR fold was Luxembourg’s Alternative Democratic Reform party (ADR) Actually, … Continue reading
Posted in centre-right, ECR, EU politics, euroscepticism
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>The EU: Viable or friable?
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Posted in academia, Democracy, EU politics, political science, US politics
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