EurActiv | EU News & policy debates, across languages. The European Magazine. Eurozine - Headlines. The Euros. Ideas on Europe | A multi-blog platform for comment and debate. Social Europe Journal - Europe, politics, economics, globalization, political economy, and international relations. Eurojournalism. The Centre for European Policy Studies | Thinking ahead for Europe. Eudo Cafe. Politics of franchise, politics of referenda Vesco Paskalev As the world is watching how Russia is using the Crimean referendum as politics by other means, the Bulgarian politicians have recently discovered how to use referenda to deal blows at each other too. The first ever referendum in the democratic history of the country was organized in January 2013. The initiative came […] Read more Date: 26 March 2014 The technocratic European Commission – a myth? Morten Egeberg Ase Gornitzka Jarle Trondal While recognizing fully the considerable range of formal instruments for holding the Commission to account that have emerged over the years, the starting question of our study* was to what extent the relationship between the European Parliament (EP) and the Commission forms a living inter-institutional tie where the Commission is virtually […] Read more Date: 21 March 2014 Understanding the Pirate Party Read more Date: 12 March 2014 A Potemkine Democracy ?
Read more Date: 6 March 2014. Blog. European elections: the view from Berlin "The political debate in the AfD never ran between liberals and conservatives […] The dividing line runs between the middle classes, liberals and conservatives, and the German national reactionaries. It runs between modernity and anti-modernity, both in the imagination of society as well as of the role of nation-states.” This characterisation of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Germany’s most popular Eurosceptic party, comes neither from a critical commentator nor from a political rival. The quote is taken from an open letter written by Thomas Rang, a founding member of the AfD in North Rhine-Westphalia and the longstanding chairman of the party’s European Union committee.
Rang wrote the letter after he quit the party in early April, in frustration at the AfD’s increasing subordination to its radical right wing. Rang’s is not a unique case: a number of the AfD’s former Read more… French hostages freed amidst Syria chaos Read more… Read more… EUROPP.