Politics
The EU norms that don’t make it to South-East Europe
Tuesday 04 August 2020 |
Petter Aspestrand | OBC Transeuropa
Many member states are struggling to implement regulations and directives enacted by the EU. Data provides insight in their ability to avoid potential infringement procedures and sanctions, and to maintain ties with the EU.
New data on EU infringement procedures
Wednesday 22 July 2020 |
Daniele De Bernardin | Openpolis
InfringEye, EDJNet’s tool for exploring current litigations between the European Commission and EU member states, has been updated to include the latest data. We offer an overview of the last ten months, and the ability to download datasets for each member state.
Italy: doing politics with politicians’ money
Friday 27 December 2019 |
Gianluca De Feo Ornaldo Gjergji
| OBC Transeuropa
After the abolition of direct public funding of politics in 2013, Italy intended to increase private donations. However, the numbers tell a different story: little funding comes from “big donors”, while a lot comes from elected representatives. Meanwhile, the absence of direct public funding in Italy remains a European anomaly.
Hungary and Serbia, "partly free" countries
Thursday 14 February 2019 |
Ornaldo Gjergji | OBC Transeuropa
The democratisation process in South East Europe is stagnating, or even going backwards. Serbia is now considered a “partly free” country, just like Hungary.
Climate action at the centre of crucial EU summit
Thursday 12 December 2019 |
Elena Sánchez Nicolás | EUobserver
Novelties are in the air for this week's European Council: Charles Michel will preside it for the first time, the gender balance will slightly improve, and it will probably be the last Council in which the UK takes part. Some novelties are expected also in terms of policy proposals.
Has the European Citizens’ Initiative been a democratic fiasco?
Thursday 05 December 2019 |
Alexander Damiano Ricci | VoxEurop
Eventually, European policy makers and MEPs greeted the start of the new European Commission’s term. The new president Ursula Von Der Leyen mentioned that the priority of the Commission team would be to revive Europe’s democracy. It might need to break with the past if it wants to do achieve this.
Climate change fractures the European Parliament
Wednesday 27 November 2019 |
Gianluca De Feo | OBC Transeuropa
While climate change may be drawing the attention of the public, MEPs’ twitter profiles seem to find relatively little room for it.
How gender balanced will the next European Parliament be?
Tuesday 26 March 2019 |
Gina Pavone | OBC Transeuropa
Will parties run enough women, and will they be placed in electable positions on electoral lists? Besides electoral systems, determination and concrete action are required to incentivise female representation. Let’s take a look at where we are now, with the numbers in hand.
It’s the fragmentation, stupid!
Tuesday 11 June 2019 |
Cas Mudde | VoxEurop
The next five years the European Union will be more fragmented than ever. This fragmentation is the key lesson of the 2019 European elections. However, contrary to the dominant narrative of the last decade or so, the old centrist blocs are not confronted with just a plethora of anti-system populist parties and groups.
Percentages can turn into music
Thursday 01 March 2018 |
OBC Transeuropa The Berliner Morgenpost assigned musical notes to different poll results: a fun but effective way to present electoral data
