This article asks: To what extent has the macro-economic crisis of national governments and financial institutions affected ordinary Europeans at the micro-economic level? The first section sets out hypotheses about which individual and national characteristics are most likely to influence...

Open data makes transparent whether public officials are conducting their activities in conformity with standards that can be bureaucratic, political or moral. Actions that violate these standards are colloquially lumped together under the heterogeneous heading of corruption. However, the...

This paper analyses the position on European integration of the hundreds of national parties winning seats in the 2014 European Parliament election. The data base comes from the Euandi project at the European University Institute, Florence. Positions are reported by country, by EP Party Group...

This paper contains a collection of blogs and three edited power points that comment on the process from Prime Minister David Cameron authorizing a referendum on Britain's membership in the EU to the majority voting for exit a year later. The topics in the five chapters cover what the referendum...

On paper, the Stability Pact places clear obligations on national governments to reduce their annual deficit and debt, and to do so promptly or face big cash penalties. However, this technocratic agreement ignores the fact that each government is democratically accountable to its citizens as...