EU integration

Populism: what is it?

Populism with no leaders: the rise of 'citizenism' and how to understand it
Paolo Gerbaudo and Antonis Galanopoulos
The Slovenian United Left: from protest to movement, and from movement to party
Alen Toplišek
Radical left strategies in the era of the collapse of 'Actually Existing Liberalism'
Andreas Karitzis
'Populism' and 'counter-populism' in the Atlantic mirror
Etienne Balibar
Fear of populism is hollowing out Europe’s leadership on refugees
Benjamin Ward
No blank checks for Europe’s populists
Justine Doody

Another Europe is Possible

Spotlight on UK's Labour and the EU referendum

Spotlight on the EU-Turkey deal

Vienna Policy Conference

Podemos - new politics?

Save Europe today

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

EuVisions

Tracking the ideas, discourse and politics of social Europe

Independence movements in Europe

Eutopia

Six countries. Six different paths to EU accession.

Technical, geopolitical, or transformative: what future for the Eastern Partnership?

Laure Delcour 23 May 2015

In most Eastern Partnership countries, elites are prepared to adopt EU templates as long as they do not undermine their interests and affect their survival strategies. The EU needs a change of strategy.

'Practical wisdom' and EU integration

Can Büyükbay 8 April 2015

The EU should focus less on economic relations and more on the worsening democratic conditions in the south-eastern candidate countries.

Serbia’s choice: EU membership or eastern promises?

Srdja Pavlovic 30 March 2015

With Serbia increasingly looking towards Moscow instead of Brussels, does the EU need to rethink its strategy towards the country?

Ukraine’s European integration

Devin Ackles 25 March 2015

If the EU is serious about helping Ukraine, both parties should focus on the country’s most glaring problem, and the Maidan’s principal demands – justice and the rule of law.

Moldova's ambiguous European integration

Alexandr Voronovici 23 March 2015

EU:Moldova flag - Yuriy Vlasenko - Shutterstock.jpg The EU may like to think of Moldova as its ‘star pupil’, but its unconditional support for successive corrupt governments may have lost it the support of the country’s people.

And where do we go from here? Macedonia and the EU

Simonida Kacarska 22 March 2015

From today's perspective, it seems amazing to think that Macedonia was actually one of the frontrunners on the road to European integration in the Balkans, even before the most recent member of the EU club, Croatia.

European integration: is it still the dream it once was?

Daniel Kennedy and Alex Sakalis 19 March 2015

Is EU integration still a priority for states, or have we in fact hit 'peak accession'? Announcing a new joint project between Can Europe Make it? and oDR.

Montenegro and the EU: living on the frontline

Koča Pavlović 19 March 2015

Within the borders of my homeland whose economy is barely functioning, we live a Balkan variant of a facade democracy which does not allow for the existence of independent and functional institutions.

Agreement by association: Georgia edges closer to Europe

Stephen F Jones 19 March 2015

Georgia’s signing of the Association Agreement with the EU has been welcomed by the country’s people and its elite, but it will likely not be the panacea they hope.