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Waltraud Schelkle: “Eurozone must build risk-sharing mechanisms”0
Joseph Stiglitz can certainly not be counted among the friends of the Euro. His new book, The Euro and Its Threat to the Future of Europe, provides ammunition for Eurosceptics, on whichever side of the political spectrum: a harsh critique of the Single Currency, unrealistic policy proposals on how to save it (e.g. a fiscal federation), the conclusion that an “amicable divorce” would be best. In this interview, Waltraud Schelkle, Associate Professor in Political Economy at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, provides an alternative read of the euro area crisis.
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Thomas Straubhaar: “Integration remains a political process”1
- EU Governance and Politics, Interview
- 30/08/2016
For this month’s Special Report, Prof. Dr. Thomas Straubhaar, professor of Economics at the University of Hamburg, shares his opinion on the current state of affairs in the EU’s economy as well as the future of fiscal integration. He was the Director of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) from 2005 till 2014. In 2005 he joined the IZA Policy fellow network. In 2009 he was awarded the Helmut Schmidt Fellowship of the ZEIT Foundation at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC.
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“Conspiracy theories have always been a part of the US culture”0
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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Michel Foucault on refugees – an interview from 19791
- Human Rights and Migration, Interview
- 20/10/2015
‘The refugee problem is a foreshadowing of the 21st century’s great migration.’
READ MOREAn interview with Spyros Sofos on the Charlie Hebdo attacks and everything that follows2
Spyros Sofos is a visiting lecturer at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the Lund University. He has previously been a Senior Research Fellow in International Politics at the Helen Bamber Centre for the Study of Rights, Conflict and Mass Violence of Kingston University, a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Portsmouth University. He is member of the advisory board of Transconflict, a conflict transformation NGO.
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“Consensus in EU politics has become almost an end in itself”0
- EU Governance and Politics, Interview
- 12/11/2014
Interview with a Professor of EU governance from Central European University, Mr. Uwe Puetter
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Policy Research Internship
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- 22/10/2018
Policy Research Internship
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- 22/10/2018
