It’s that time in the academic calendar when we get to congratulate all of our students on their hard work over the past three or four years. This year in Politics we had an exceptional number of good degrees, so our current graduating cohort should feel very pleased with themselves indeed. Looking at the marks […]
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As those of you who have taken my modules will know, unlike my colleagues, I’m not really one for European Politics. It’s all bratwursts and talking and complicated voting and irrelevant bodies and banana straightening and the French. For me, it lacks the, y’know, global relevance of American foreign policy or the immediacy of British […]
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The results of last Sunday’s elections in Greece reveal not only the deep fragmentation of the political system in Greece but also a polarized electoral environment within Greek society. Clearly the outcome of the elections signals the willingness of the Greeks to remain within the Eurozone and within the European Union structures, but also sends […]
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Yesterday’s elections in Greece and France might be seen as a vindication of what little strategy European leaders have presented to date: the former’s confirmation of New Democracy suggesting a desire to engage with the bailout agenda; the latter opening up the way for a new growth agenda. No more big challenges until the German […]
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In the fortnight since I last wrote a piece for this blog, things appear to have shifted in the EU. The Irish ‘yes’ to the Fiscal Pact (by a clear margin, if less than enthusiastic) and the pressure on Greek and Spanish banks seem to have pushed member states towards a ‘more Europe’ type solution. […]
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This blog was first published by e-IR on 30 May and is available at: http://www.e-ir.info/ This might appear to be a naive question. The cold-blooded execution on 25 May in the town of Houla of over 100 civilians, including women and children, followed by the discovery on 30 May in Deir Ezzor of 13 bodies […]
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