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Eastern Europe: Parties and the mirage of technocracy
Many commentators saw the governments of non-party technocrats formed in Greece and Italy in 2011 as an ill omen for development of party-based democracy in Europe. Established parties, it is suggested, are turning to technocratic caretaker administrations as a device … Continue reading
Posted in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, political parties
Tagged Bulgaria, caretaker, central and eastern europe, Eastern Europe, Greece, hungary, Italy, party government, technocracy, technocrats
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Party government: All we want for Christmas is you…?
At an eye-watering £75 Hans Keman and Ferdinand Müller-Rommel’s new Party Government in the New Europe which came out earlier this year with Routledge is unlikely to have made it to under many people’s Christmas trees this year. It does, … Continue reading
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
Difficult Hungarian lesson
The constitutional and institutional changes pushed through by Hungary’s ruling conservative-national Fidesz party following its emphatic election victory in April 2010 have attracted increasing coverage – and almost enirely negative - from academic and journalistic observers of Central European politic, … Continue reading
Posted in CEE centre-right, CEE far-right, Hungary
Tagged Bulgaria, central and eastern europe, democracy, Eastern Europe, fidesz, GERB, hungary, Poland, political parties, slovakia
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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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