The EU in your Eyes

Public Opinion Survey on Popular Perceptions of the EU, its Contemporary Role, and the EP Elections Data Analyst and Author: Eleni Kalatzi Project Manager: Nikos Papakostas The following report is part of the project “Election in Coming… To vote or not to vote?” that was inspired by Inter Alia and has been ongoing since May 2013. It is a…

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Welcoming the pariah back? Thoughts on Serbia’s steep and thorny way to Europe

by Giorgos Monogioudis Giorgos Monogioudis conducted PhD research at School of Slavonic and East-European Studies, University College London. His thesis was entitled “Tracing public accountability in Serbia: the ombudsman institutions in search of allies”. Overshadowed by the ongoing Ukrainian crisis and the subsequent annexation of Crimea by Russia, international media paid little attention to a remarkable occurrence that characterised…

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Macro-Solutions to Mega-Problems: A concise analysis on the aggregate lackadaisical pursuit of the European Neighbourhood Policy objectives.

Presumably the EU member states as well as the East and the South partners horizontally project a rather lethargic attitude towards the objectives of the ENP. Despite the vehemence of the rhetoric and the occasional prepossession of some countries, the ENP comprises a set of policies anchored in inveterate perspectives of the South and East partners, characterised until very…

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On Ukraine, EU and the Importance of Civil Society

the civil society of contested states http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcms.12035/abstract

More and more, civil society is seen as an essential part of European integration. Either as a player in a more democratic decision-making or as a step towards the creation of a pan-European ‘public’, civil society has moved up the list of EU priorities in recent years. Indeed, this has been reflected in…

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