This blog post is the first in a series of posts that come from students of our Politics of the European Union undergraduate course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to European integration. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional young scholars at UCDContinue reading “The Problem with Enlargement”
Monthly Archives: April 2014
More Strategists, Less Strategy: The Case for a European Defense University
In December 2003 the European Council took one of its most ambitious and important steps so far in transforming the European Union into a unified and global security actor – it adopted and issued the European Security Strategy (ESS). To mark its tenth anniversary and reflect on its achievements, shortcomings and way ahead, the journalContinue reading “More Strategists, Less Strategy: The Case for a European Defense University”
A Dialogue with Prof Paul de Grauwe on the Power of Economic Ideas
Why did the ECB not intervene in the sovereign bond markets when the crisis first erupted in Greece? There are several reasons. One is German opposition. Germans just don’t want to have it. Your question then, might be, is why do the Germans not want it? Here it is a combination of different things.Continue reading “A Dialogue with Prof Paul de Grauwe on the Power of Economic Ideas”
Lessons for the Ukraine crisis from a British television comedy
A 28-year old British television comedy brings us salient lessons for the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. In it, a British Prime Minister is teasing out the implications of nuclear deterrence with his central European-accented scientific advisor. The adviser is pressing the newly installed Prime Minister to clarify the precise circumstances under which he will beContinue reading “Lessons for the Ukraine crisis from a British television comedy”
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