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Tim is an economic policy and political-risk analyst and former journalist based in London and Brussels.

Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley advisors (a division of Energy Aspects).

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European Politics April 22, 2022

La Hongrie sous Orban

Hélène Bienvenu,

Hosted by Tim Jones
"Who knows the name of the Czech prime minister, the name of the head of the Romanian or even the Polish executive branches? Yet, today everyone knows the name of …
Western European Studies April 14, 2022

The Need for an EU Expulsion Mechanism: Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7

Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7

Tom Theuns

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"The rule of law is a means by which [western EU members] want to knead us into something that resembles them," warned Viktor Orbán during his successful campaign for a …
European Politics March 28, 2022

Orbanland

Why Viktor Orbán's Hungary Matters

Lasse Skytt

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On Sunday April 3rd, Hungarians decide whether to elect Viktor Orbán and his special form of eurosceptical "illiberal democracy" to a fourth consecutive term in office as war rages on …
European Politics January 24, 2022

Flexible Europe

Differentiated Integration, Democracy, and Domination

Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger, and Marta Lorimer

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The past decade has been pivotal in the development of the European Union. The single currency has been tested to the limits by successive crises in the financial system, public-debt …
Economics December 28, 2021

The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations

Macroeconomics Meets Psychology

Tobias F. Rötheli

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Inflation expectations – their formation, predictive accuracy, and influence on business price-setting and household consumption – remain one of the great macroeconomic puzzles and challenges to policymakers. As inflation returns …
European Politics September 30, 2021

Ruin and Renewal

Civilising Europe After the Second World War

Paul Betts

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"One of the most enduring myths of history writing about Europe in the 20th century is that the century can be neatly divided into a tale of two halves, with …
Economics September 7, 2021

The Foundations of Antitrust

Events, Ideas, and Doctrines

Gregory Werden

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Few revolutions in economics have been as under-covered in general literature as the emergence and development of competition theory and policymaking. Political threats to break up the tech giants or …
European Politics September 3, 2021

Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary

The Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of Law

Tímea Drinóczi and Agnieszka Bień-Kacała

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Over the past decade, Poland and Hungary have become laboratories for a new kind of government: proto-authoritarian regimes that still have regular elections, vibrant oppositions and are externally constrained by …
Economics September 3, 2021

Redesigning Democracy

More Ideas for Better Rules

Hans Gersbach

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For three decades, Hans Gersbach has been using economic analysis and tools to explain and improve political behaviour. His academic career began just as history was supposed to be ending …
European Politics August 10, 2021

European Representation in EU National Parliaments

Lucy Kinski

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It’s been 44 years since the Young European Federalists first coined the term “democratic deficit” – two years before the first direct elections to the European Parliament, 10 before the …
European Politics July 28, 2021

The Success and Failure of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries

Léonie de Jonge

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"The populist radical right is by far the best-studied party family within political science”. Extremism expert Cas Mudde may be right but, as Léonie de Jonge argues in The Success and Failure …
European Politics July 28, 2021

Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis

A Tale of Two Decades of the European Central Bank

Massimo Rostagno et al.

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In July 2021, nine summers after its then president saved the euro with three choice words (“whatever it takes”), the European Central Bank published the results of a thoroughgoing review …
European Politics July 21, 2021

Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy

Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia

Malte Dold and Tim Krieger

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Once described as a “German oddity”†, Ordoliberalism was one of a number of new liberalisms that emerged from the political maelstrom of the interwar period. But, unlike the other neoliberal …
European Politics June 30, 2021

Brexit Unfolded

How No One Got What They Wanted (and Why They Were Never Going To)

Christopher Grey

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In 2020-21, the UK left first the EU and then the 30-nation European Economic Area. Much of the impact has been masked by the coronavirus pandemic but, as that lifts …
European Politics May 31, 2021

Dealing with Europe

Lessons from Switzerland's Experience

Paolo Dardanelli and Oscar Mazzoleni

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Between voting to leave the European Union in 2016 and doing it four years later, the British political and media classes debated what kind of relationship they should have with …
Economics May 11, 2021

The Great Crash 1929

John Kenneth Galbraith

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"A good knowledge of what happened in 1929 remains our best safeguard against the recurrence of the more unhappy events of those days", wrote John Kenneth Galbraith in The Great …
European Politics May 7, 2021

European Studies

Past, Present, and Future

Erik Jones

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“It is no secret that European studies has suffered a setback in the academy”, write William Collins Donahue and Martin Kagel in their contribution to European Studies: Past, Present and …
Economics April 26, 2021

Reinventing Liberalism

The Politics, Philosophy and Economics of Early Neoliberalism (1920-1947)

Ola Innset

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This year, more than 40 books will be published in English with 'Neoliberal' or 'Neoliberalism' in the title. For many in the academy, these words have become interchangeable with “capitalist”, “laissez-faire” …
European Politics April 14, 2021

Belarus Under Lukashenka

Adaptive Authoritarianism

Matthew Frear

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Often called “Europe’s last dictator”, Alexander Lukashenka has ruled Belarus – a land-locked European country of close to 10 million people bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland and two Baltic states …
European Politics April 12, 2021

The Legal History of the European Banking Union

How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market

Pedro Gustavo Teixeira

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Today I talked to Pedro Gustavo Teixeira about his new book The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market …
European Politics April 7, 2021

The Road to Monetary Union

Richard Pomfret

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“Economics is the long-run driver” in the history of Europe’s monetary union, writes Richard Pomfret in the first of a new Cambridge Elements series on the Economics of European Integration: The …
European Politics March 17, 2021

Mark Rutte

Petra de Koning

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If, as expected, he re-emerges as prime minister after the Dutch election on March 17, Mark Rutte is on track to become the Netherlands' longest-serving prime minister. By mid-2022, he will …
European Politics March 16, 2021

The Rise of the Dutch New Right

An Intellectual History of the Rightward Shift in Dutch Politics

Merijn Oudenampsen

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We are not short of books and commentary on the rise of the nativist right in Europe and the US but not all these movements are alike. Among the most …
European Politics March 16, 2021

The Last Neoliberal

Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis

Stefano Palombarini and Bruno Amable

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Emmanuel Macron “has shown a genuine ability to strategize politically, determinedly and clear-sightedly [in] occupying the space of the bourgeois bloc. This is a space that France’s political crisis has …