European politics

I wrote this short blog for The Staggers this week on the future of the left, with particular reference to European social democracy: "There are plenty of grounds for pessimism about the left’s prospects and they are well rehearsed.  Across...

Now that the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has published the proposed reforms to the relationship between the UK and the EU, and the Prime Minister, David Cameron, has endorsed them as the basis for the UK’s continued...

By Marley Morris, Research Fellow, the Institute for Public Policy Research Rumours abound over the Prime Minister’s renegotiation over the UK’s EU membership with his European counterparts. With the aim clearly to wrap things up by the European Council summit...

At the end of last year, Spanish voters delivered a major, some would say fatal, blow to the country’s two party system.  The combined vote share of the two mainstream parties, the conservative People’s Party and the centre-left Socialist Workers’...