Project Events & News

Blog: The 2008 economic crisis and entrepreneurship in Europe

CEU CPS Research Fellow Dragos Adascalitei posted a new entry on the COHESIFY blog related to his recently published co-authored research paper titled "The impact of the economic crisis on latent and early entrepreneurship in Europe".

Blog: Surviving Brexit: twelve lessons from Norway

TransCrisis blog piece co-authored by Nick Sitter, CPS research affiliate and SPP professor

One year after the referendum, after losing its majority in the general election, the UK government is revising what Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson famously labelled the 'Cake-and-Eat-It' approach to Brexit. In this context, it might be worth asking if there is anything the UK can learn from Norway's quarter of a century experience as a 'quasi-member' of the European Union.

Migration Solidarity and Acts of Citizenship along the Balkan Route

Celine Cantat, Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies and Academic Program Manager at the OLIve-Open Learning Initiative, has been awarded a European Commission Marie-Curie Fellowship for research on refugee solidarity and acts of citizenship along the Balkan Route.

Call for Application: Roma Civil Monitor - DEADLINE EXTENDED for 8 EU member states

We still welcome proposals from NGOs from the following countries - Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Latvia, Luxembourg and Poland, until 29 May 2017, 12:00 CET.

Blog: Voice, Disloyalty and Brexit: The Attractions and Pitfalls of Differentiated Integration

The latest TransCrisis blog post by Nick Sitter, CPS research affiliate and SPP professor

The European Union is fundamentally about power-sharing. The original six member states built a political system based on consensus. It allowed a supranational executive to manage day-to-day policy, but legislation required the consent of most of its members. In practice, this meant unanimity. As the EU grew, member state governments accepted that participation in the EU came at the price of having to accept some policy measures with which they did not agree.