13 November 2023

The EU’s planned reconstruction efforts of Ukraine: A game changer?

Matthias Thiemann, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics Russia’s attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, came largely as a surprise to the world […]
10 October 2023

The West and Europe, Between Values and Geopolitics

by Christian Lequesne, CERI The war in Ukraine has brought the notion of the West back into play, less in geopolitical terms than in terms […]
21 September 2023
Volodymyr Zelensky au Parlement européen CC-BY-4.0: © European Union

Enlargement of the European Union: Stop or Else?

The influence of Eurosceptics in the European Parliament The invasion of Ukraine has once again brought the issue of European Union enlargement to the fore. […]
18 May 2020
Boris Kollar, candidat de Sme Rodina (Nous sommes une famille) lors des élections présidentielles en Croatie, janvier 2020. Source : Instagram-Sme-rodina

Gender and “Illiberal” Democracies: Towards a New European Divide?

By Maxime Forest, OFCE, PRESAGE* On February 21st, Le Monde published an article titled “Gender wars declared in Eastern Europe”. A few days later, The […]
6 July 2019

Civilising capitalism

In his latest book, Civiliser le capitalisme [Civilising capitalism] (Fayard), OFCE president Xavier Ragot confirms that reducing economic security and defending democracy requires rethinking economic […]
21 September 2018
Assemblée Nationale par Christian Papiermachervia Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Making Parliament the beating heart of democracy

European questions and issues are now part of the daily lives of our elected officials. But what role does Europe truly play in the fulfillment […]
10 April 2018

Europe: an open history

Europa notre histoire (Europa, our history) is a book of unparalleled breadth that was recently published by Les Arènes. It is a real editorial feat […]
30 September 2017

The 1970s: the European left and globalization

istorians consider the 1970s to be a key turning point in European and international politics. After observing that this era’s major transformations, especially the decline […]
28 February 2017
The right way. CC BY-NC 2.0 Bob Morris

Measuring inequalities between migrants and nationals

In the tradition of research conducted at the Sociological Observatory of Change on social stratification and segregation, Ettore Recchi has published “The Citizenship Gap in […]