Project Events & News

Blog: Democratic backsliding in the EU: accidents, coincidences or systemic crisis?

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

The danger that one or more member states might give up on liberal democracy and slide back into authoritarianism has haunted the EU ever since its first institutions were designed more than 60 years ago.

National Exceptional Teaching for Disadvantaged Schools Program (NETDS)

January 23, 2017

CPS Visiting Fellow within the SALEACOM Project and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia) Bruce Burnett held a lecture on January 20th, 2017 at CEU about their teachers’ training program for tackling educational disadvantages.

Blog: On the road to a traumatic Brexit?

October 7, 2016

TransCrisis blog post by Martin Lodge and Nick Sitter

Events at the Conservative conference are supposed to have offered some insight into the slogan ‘Brexit means Brexit’. We now know that Art 50 will be triggered by the end of March 2017, that ‘national sovereignty’ is to be established over matters of immigration, and that there is supposed to be no role for the European Court of Justice in the workings of the United Kingdom.

Blog: Yellow Card to Hungary’s Backsliding PM, EU Trans-boundary Crisis on Hold

October 6, 2016

Nick Sitter wrote a piece about the October 2 Hungarian referendum on EU migrant qoutas for the TransCrisis blog.

In the four-month long referendum campaign, Orbán made much of the need to ‘send Brussels a message that they too can understand’ – as government billboards proclaimed in July. If this was indeed the main motivation for the referendum, then it failed twice over.

SOLIDUS: Concept paper for research and policy analysis of the spatial dimension of solidarity

September 10, 2016

A concept paper for research and policy analysis of the spatial dimension of solidarity was published within the SOLIDUS project.