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This blog post is the third in a series of posts that come from students of our 2nd year undergraduate “Politics of the EU” course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to EU politics. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional young scholarsContinue reading “European Parliament election turnout: What is wrong, what has been done, and what further action could be taken?”

This blog post is the second in a series of posts that come from students of our 2nd year undergraduate “Politics of the EU” course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to EU politics. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional young scholarsContinue reading “The Refugee Crisis: Pushing EU Integration to its Limit”

  This blog post is the first in a series of posts that come from students of our 2nd year undergraduate “Politics of the EU” course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to EU politics. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional youngContinue reading “Security Through Integration? Europe’s Promise to Ukraine”

A Report from the Ninth Europe-Ukraine Economic Forum, Lodz, Poland, 24-26 January, 2016. By Marie Cross, Senior Fellow. Institute for International and European Affairs (IIEA) On behalf of the IIEA, I attended a session of the Europe – Ukraine Economic Forum in Lodz, Poland on 24-26 January, organised by the Polish Foundation for Eastern Studies. It provided a usefulContinue reading “Europe, Ukraine and Russia: Where are we now?”

By Luke Field, PhD researcher at UCD’s School of Politics and International Relations. (with apologies to Joe Strummer) The German word schuld has multiple meanings and translations, including ‘debt’, ‘guilt’, and ‘blame’. Whether this is a coincidence or a causal factor is not a matter for this blog, but it is certainly interesting, given thatContinue reading “‘Schuld I Stay or Schuld I Go?’ Germany, Greece, and the Politics of Debt and Blame”

Ideology as Insult By Daniel Listwa. MA in Philosophy and Public Affairs at University College Dublin. As the Euro Crisis heated up this past summer, I observed as a level of consensus arose among American, and other English-speaking, audiences with regard to what was happening in the Eurozone: the Germans, driven by moral ideology, set outContinue reading “Ideology, Morality and Rationality: The Uncomfortable Bedfellows of European Integration”

The Brave New World of Central Banking, Monetary Policy and Economic Inequality Let me start with an important empirical observation. Europe is the richest region in the world. Private wealth and private capital is equal to 6-7 times national income in most Euro area countries, even 8 times national income in some countries, such as Italy.Continue reading “Saving capitalism: for the few or the many?”

This blog post is the second in a series of posts that come from students of our 2nd year undergraduate “Capitalism and Democracy” course. As part of the module, students were asked to select and research a topic that is related to the global political economy of redistribution. The best blog posts have been selected to provideContinue reading “Social Democracy, a Second Leviathan?”

This blog post is the first in a series of posts that come from students of our 2nd year undergraduate “Capitalism and Democracy” course. As part of the module, students were asked to select and research a topic that is related to the global political economy of redistribution. The best blog posts have been selected to provideContinue reading “Money for Nothing : Is QE increasing inequality?”

We are currently witnessing a new chapter in the politicisation of EU affairs in the German parliament, the Bundestag. German legislators were asked to vote on further aid measures for Greece three times this year, and support within Chancellor Angela Merkel’s and Finance Mininster Wolfgang Schäuble’s own party (the Conservative CDU) has gradually declined. OnContinue reading “Merkel and Schäuble face an increasing number of party rebels”