The referendum: populism vs democracy The idea of the referendum as an instrument of the people’s will rests on pre-democratic foundations, says George Schöpflin. I certainly agree! A better… more →
KosmopolitDominik Zimmermann wrote 2 months ago: Today on 1st July, France takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sloven … more →
kosmopolit wrote 2 months ago: The referendum: populism vs democracy The idea of the referendum as an instrument of the people … more →
kosmopolit wrote 2 months ago: Interesting how Gordon Brown defends the EU and the Lisbon Treaty: Conviction or tactics? … more →
kosmopolit wrote 2 months ago: The Irish ‘no’ and the EU’s “nuclear”option Daniel Gros (CEPS) argues for “a radic … more →
kosmopolit wrote 2 months ago: The problems with the Irish referendum: In any representative democracy a document with 271 pages … more →
Dominik Zimmermann wrote 4 months ago: Today the German lower house Parliament (Bundestag) passed the Treaty of Lisbon by 515 supporting vo … more →
Dominik Zimmermann wrote 8 months ago: In an effort to ease the free movement of the citizens of the European Union, land and sea border co … more →
Dominik Zimmermann wrote 8 months ago: Today the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on the European Union and the Treaty establishing the … more →
Dominik Zimmermann wrote 1 year ago: According to a press release of the EU Parliament, the Parliament will work closely with the Commiss … more →
kosmopolit wrote 1 year ago: The summer break is over. Slowly, the Brussels xpat crowd is coming back from holiday. I just starte … more →
Dominik Zimmermann wrote 1 year ago: Starting today, Portugal will take over the presidency in the EU Council (see: presidency website). … more →
kosmopolit wrote 1 year ago: Two years and three months after our legendary EU debate in a car between Münster and Louvain-la-Ne … more →
kosmopolit wrote 1 year ago: In case you have nothing better to do this weekend, here is a wonderful exercise to make sense out o … more →
kosmopolit wrote 1 year ago: Fair enough, but certainly not this week! Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) These conferences are … more →
kosmopolit wrote 1 year ago: Here we go again: Every six months it is time to rant about the logo of the new EU presidency. This … more →
kosmopolit wrote 1 year ago: Thanks to Jan’s EU Blog the German version of the Berlin declaration is online! As expected, … more →
kosmopolit wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes it is quite revealing to change perspective. Andrew Moravcsik comments in Newsweek on the … more →
kosmopolit wrote 1 year ago: The EU is preparing to celebrate its 50th birthday which also means a lot of research papers… … more →
kosmopolit wrote 1 year ago: Every now and then a little language war breaks out in the EU institutions. Spain lobbies for Spanis … more →