Finland’s Recent Citizens’ Initiative Will Not Threaten Its Euro Membership
Tapio Raunio
The current citizens’ initiative in Finland on the euro has its roots in public opposition to the single currency, but has no serio…
Category: Party Politics
Six Things We Know About EU Referendum Campaigns
Kai Oppermann and Paul Taggart
The outcome of the UK’s EU referendum will be driven by a number of key factors, many of which might not become clea…
Problematising the SNP’s Pro-European Status Quo
Judith Sijstermans
The SNP’s policy of pro-Europeanism is more a result of strategy than ideology favourable to European integration, write…
Rationalising the Irrational? How to Make Sense of Member States’ Responses to the Asylum Crisis
Pontus Odmalm
Mainstream political parties in Europe have largely found it difficult to develop coherent policies to address the asylum cris…
Greece’s Fiscal Crisis: Some Distance Yet to Run
Dermot Hodson
The risk of Grexit – Greek exit from the euro area – has diminished after a summer of dramatic political developments, writes Derm…
The EU Referendum: Unpredictable in Scotland and the UK
James Mitchell
In Scotland, despite differences in views and parties, the 1975 EC referendum shares some similarities with the EU referendum …
Britain’s European Futures? Reflections from a Seminar Discussion
Drew Scott
Following a recent seminar and panel discussion on the UK’s EU renegotiation and referendum, Drew Scott reflects on the prospects f…
Decision Time for Catalonia
Daniel Cetrà
The upcoming election in Catalonia is being framed by some parties as a referendum on independence from Spain, writes Daniel Cetr…
The Human Rights Act and Britain’s European Futures
Tobias Lock
In this extended article, Tobias Lock explores the implications of potential human rights reform in Britain. He writes that a repe…
Finality, Sir, is not the Language of Politics
James Mitchell
Referendums do not necessarily solve the issues they are meant to address, writes James Mitchell. He argues that, similar to th…