EUI Blogs

26/07/2017

06/07/2017

Being a MW Fellow has been a wild ride many times, but most certainly worth it. I was able to meet so many wonderful individuals

20/06/2017

Some EUI Ph.D. theses defended in the past academic year have been awarded with prestigious prizes during the Degree Conferring Ceremony on 9 June 2017. Find them on Cadmus, the EUI Research Repository: Haakon Ikonomou, Europeans : Norwegian diplomats and the enlargement of the European Community, 1...

12/06/2017

From the "Is There Space in Cities for State Building?" Blog

Cultural history has gained momentum during the last few years in the comprehension of early modern polities. Rituals, discourses and ceremonies have been conceived as ideological mechanisms of legitimation and reproduction of political orders. The narrative by Francisco Cascales of the welcoming ce...

29/05/2017

A New law in Egypt which grants the president of Egypt the power to appoint the most senior officials in the Egyptian judiciary has recently been passed by parliament and it threatens the very fabric of judicial independence in Egypt. By way of a brief clarification, this blog post does not make the...

26/05/2017

You are reading the first edition of the new EUI Library newsletter, . has an intentionally hybrid nature that allows a conversation between the Library and its users. Every item appearing in print can be found in the Library blog, where we encourage you to leave your comments. This w...

24/05/2017

Nice article regarding the evolution of news, written on the EUI Library Blog

Fake news has been much in the real news recently but what’s new about that? Fake news has been around as long as the other sort of news but what has changed are the circumstances in which it is transmitted, which have put the existence of conventional newspapers themselves under threat. The sales o...

08/05/2017

Populist engagement with constitution-making and constitutional reform forms a distinctive, and in significant ways worrying, tendency. Populism is explicitly present in the constitutional politics of the East-Central European countries of Hungary and Poland (but not reducible to East-Central Europe...

02/05/2017

On 26 April the European Parliament held a debate on Hungary. In his opening remarks First Vice-President Frans Timmermans said that the Commission shares the worries and concerns of many people within and outside the EU regarding recent developments in Hungary, and about the compatibility of certai...

26/04/2017

By Dieneke De Vos, PhD Candidate, International Criminal Law and Gender

On 21 April 2017, the Dutch Court of Appeal in ‘s-Hertogenbosch issued a decision holding Mr Guus Kouwenhoven, a Dutch national, responsible as an accessory…

20/04/2017

By Zane Rasnaca, PhD Researcher in Law

On 26 April 2017 the European Commission will finally issue its long-awaited proposal on the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR). The EPSR will be accompanied by…

20/04/2017

New EUI Blog Workshop Cities and Polities

Rethinking on how early modern polities were defined in urban contexts under global and comparative perspectives

12/04/2017

From The Max Weber Programme Blog

Max Weber Fellow Andrei Poama's reflections on interviewing Philippe van Parijs on democracy and social justice

30/03/2017

reflections on 5 key reasons as to why the UK is attractive to foreign academics and the extent to which Brexit may tarnish the UK academic appeal

24/03/2017

Meet the new EUI Blogs platform, user oriented and fully accessible

Articles and Insights from the European University Institute, Florence.

23/03/2017

From the Constitutionalism and Politics Blog

The Constitutionalism and Politics Working Group has the pleasure to invite you to the event: Human and Animal Rights: From the Enlightenment to the Twenty-First Century – Work in progress presentation and discussion by Raffael Fasel (PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge) and Manès We...

22/03/2017

From the Constitutionalism and Politics Blog

Report kindly written by Oliver Garner, 2nd year researcher at the EUI and member of the ConstPol team On Saturday 18th March 2017, the Central European University in Budapest hosted the workshop “Reforming the EU – Central European Perspectives”. The event was organised by the Hungarian European So...