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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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A spectre of … something is haunting Europe
Photo: Tom Morris, via Wikicommons At 8.30am I am sitting in a thinktank seminar on ‘subterranean politics’ in Europe. At 8pm I am sitting in launch event for a book about populism in Europe and the America. It is a … Continue reading
Posted in populism, protest, Uncategorized, W European politics
Tagged Czech, Europe, farright, Jobbik, Latin America, lse, mary kaldor, mike richmond, parties, politics, populism, protest, subterranean politics, ucl
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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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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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Setting the seal on CEELBAS: Parties and post-communism
The Centre for East European for Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) research consortium which has brought researchers interested in various aspects of Russia and CEE at UCL, Birmingham, Oxford and beyond together in a variety of events and networks over … Continue reading
Posted in academia, communism and post-communism, Poland, political parties
Tagged area studies, Europe, parties, postcommunism, universities
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