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No Podemos parar: Spain’s six-month-old protest party comes second in new opinion poll

October 27, 2014

On this blog, we have been tracking Podemos, Spain’s six-month-old anti-establishment party, since its very first success in the European Parliament elections in May – when the party came from nowhere to secure five MEPs (see here and here). The rise o…

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anti-austerity, austerity, Iglesias, Podemos, Rajoy, Sanchez, Spain, Spanish elections, Spanish politics

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Will the real Jean-Claude Juncker please stand up?

July 10, 2014

This week, Jean-Claude Juncker conducted his tour of political groups in the European Parliament in a bid to get their support for him to succeed Barroso. On this occasion, German social democrat MEP Udo Bullmann stressed:”Mr. Juncker will have to pres…

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anti-austerity, austerity, authenticity, European Commission, european parliament, fracking, Jean-Claude Juncker

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Anti-system MEPs surge in the European Parliament: how will EU leaders respond?

May 26, 2014

Open Europe has today responded to the preliminary 2014 European Parliament elections results. Please note that these figures are based on a combination of final results and some projections so could still be subject to change. However, we do not consi…

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anti-austerity, EP elections, EP2014, EU elections, European Commission, european parliament, immigration, populism

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Would it not be easier if ‘Brussels’ simply dissolved the people and elected another?

April 28, 2014

In less than a month’s time voters across the EU (that is those who decide to vote) will head to the polls to elect the new European Parliament. Ahead of the elections there has been a lot of speculation about the surge in support for a range of p…

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anti-austerity, Beppe Grillo, EP elections, EP2014, guy verhofstadt, juncker, Le Pen, Martin Schulz, people power, UKIP

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Where are the real fault lines in the EU?

March 19, 2014

Ipsos Mori has this week published an interesting poll on public attitudes* in ten EU member states. Across the ten countries as a whole relatively few people want to leave the EU outright (18% on average), but the single most popular option …

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anti-austerity, austerity, britain in europe, British diplomacy, euro, France, French public opinion, German public opinion, germany, poll, public opinion, repatriation of powers

Are the Irish more optimistic about an austerity cure for Europe than the Germans?

October 4, 2013

A new Gallup poll for Debating Europe has asked peple all over the EU, except Luxembourg for some reason, about their views on austerity.Now, of course, ‘austerity’ is rather a nebulous concept, particularly as different member states have had differen…

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anti-austerity, austerity, euro, finland, germany, ireland, Netherlands, poll

Portugal’s coalition fights to keep its head above water

July 4, 2013

UPDATE (17:15) – First reports of an agreement to keep the coalition alive. Stay tuned for more details. UPDATE (16:40) – Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho and Foreign Minister Paulo Portas have just come out of another (swift) round of tal…

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anti-austerity, austerity, Coalition, ECB, eurozone, Passos Coelho, Portugal, Portuguese bailout

Berlusconi: Let’s breach EU deficit rules, no-one would throw us out

June 18, 2013

With the next meeting of EU leaders only one week away, Silvio Berlusconi has stepped his anti-austerity rhetoric up by a few notches. He said yesterday,”We need someone from the [Italian] government to go to Brussels and tell those gentlemen, ‘We ar…

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anti-austerity, austerity, berlusconi, EU summit, eurozone, fiscal treaty, germany, italy, Letta, Merkel

Berlusconi wants to say ‘basta’ to EU diktats

June 6, 2013

Silvio Berlusconi’s interviews never go unnoticed. Yesterday evening, he told Italian TV channel T9 that:”We now have a strong government…also vis-à-vis Europe. We need this government to go to Brussels and say ‘I’ll do it this way’. We can no…

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anti-austerity, austerity, berlusconi, euro, eurozone crisis, fiscal treaty, germany, italy, Letta, Merkel

Any Commission changes to the eurozone crisis policy are largely semantic as the bloc continues to shy away from the tough choices

May 30, 2013

Building on our blog from yesterday, Open Europe’s Raoul Ruparel has an article in City AM today discussing the Commission’s country specific recommendations. Raoul argues that, despite protestations to the contrary, this is far from a wholesale ch…

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anti-austerity, austerity, economic growth, European Commission, eurozone, eurozone crisis, eurozone exit, fiscal union

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