Jakov Bojovic is co-Founder of the POLITHEOR network and Editor for the EU governance and politics section. He teaches policy and opinion writing at the IE School of Global and Public Affairs and is President of the Madrid-based Centre for Policy Writing.
Today we spoke about conspiracy theories and their influence with Professor Michael Butter (Tübingen University), author of Plots, Designs, and Schemes (Linguae & Litterae) and many other works on conspiracy theories in the US.
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The European Semester Light process was developed to advance reforms of candidate countries’ economic policies before entering the EU. The case of Serbia bluntly shows its shortcomings.
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On 1st of November 2014, the new European Commission with Jean-Claude Juncker as President started its mandate. Among the first public events Mr. Juncker chose to attend are the presentation of Helmut Kohl’s book in Frankfurt and a debate with former Commission President Jacques Delors. The two people he decided to meet have, along with Francois Mitterrand, marked the process of building the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in the 1990s. This process is known to be characterized by the strong influence of the Franco-German engine of EU integration and the European Commission with a strong leader, Jacques Delors. I believe most of us can agree that in the meantime, we had three Commission Presidents that hardly left a mark.
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