Brief Introduction to Political Identity How people identify and the characteristics that they choose to define themselves are ever fluid and changing conceptual questions. The factors that some may think of as most critical may not even enter the picture…
1. Introductory Remarks: the vicious circle of the EU democratic gap There is now a broad consensus among economists, political scientists and journalists about the nature of the EU crisis: it is not only an economic crisis, but a governance…
In the last ten years, Europe was engaged in managing the effects of a multiple crisis: an economic and financial crisis, an institutional crisis, a political crisis and last but not least the still unresolved refugee crisis. The outer environment…