The Euro Crisis of Governance: Legitimacy at Risk? | Vivien A. Schmidt (2015) Vivien Schmid’s UCD lecture draws on a report that she recently prepared for the European Commission. The EU’s economic crisis has generated a crisis of democratic legitimacy, as deteriorating economics and increasingly volatile politics have combined with restrictive governance processes focused on […]
This article appeared first on the Pardee School of Global Studies website: Thomas Berger, Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said that Austria had a mixed record in reckoning with its past in World War II. Berger made the argument on a Nov. 4 Broadcast […]
Saving an Ancestral Cemetery BU alum searches for Jewish headstones used by Nazis to fortify roads By Lara Ehrlich Icek Wluka led his son David through the iron gates of Auschwitz. It was 1988, the first time he had returned to Poland since the war, and he remembered every inch of the camp where his […]
Last week, Vivien Schmidt, Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe, travelled to London to deliver the Kleh Family Foundation Distinguished Lecture on “The Eurozone Crisis: A Problem of Economics or Politics.” Over 100 people attended the sold-out event at the Boston University London Center in South Kensington. In her lecture, Schmidt argued that Eurozone crisis […]
The European Commission has just released the new call for proposals for the 2016 Erasmus+ program. The Erasmus+ program includes a mobility program for US students, faculty, and staff as well as other funding opportunities (such as the Jean Monnet program) for both individuals and universities to engage with the European Union and its Member […]
Cornel Ban, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University and an expert in the political economy of crises and transitions has just published an article in the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS). Ban’s article, which he co-wrote with Daniela Gabor of the University of the West of England, is titled “Banking on Bonds: The […]
We are delighted to share the following news from Alisdair Young, Chair of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA). EUSA has been successful in two European grant competitions – Getting to Know Europe (GTKE) and the Jean Monnet Programme. These grants will enable EUSA to take on an additional role and to launch several new […]
Watch this short video of our director Vivien Schmidt promoting the sixteenth edition of Social policy in the European Union: State of Play. The book has a triple ambition. First, it provides easily accessible information to a wide audience about recent developments in both EU and domestic social policymaking. Second, the volume provides a more […]
Vivien Schmidt spoke recently at State of Play 2015, a daylong conference highlighting the state of social policy in the European Union held on Sept. 23 at the headquarters of the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels, Belgium. The conference was held to commemorate the publication of the 16th edition of “Social Policy in […]