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The EP elections and the prospects for EU democracy – by Connor O’Shea

On the 27th of June 2024, three weeks after the elections to the European Parliament, the Centre for European Studies (CES) hosted a distinguished panel featuring four renowned European scholars...

Posted by sk385 on 13 August 2024

A Tale of Two Cities revisited

Bill Tupman writes about the theatre of anti-money laundering policy wherein he explains why sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, tax evasion and the laundering of the profits of criminal enterprises are...

Posted by jmt212 on 27 May 2021

Mind the Gap: troubled implementation of the Prevent Duty at UK Universities

James Maxia, Eva Thomann and Jörn Ege find that there is a considerable implementation gap at UK universities of the ‘Prevent Duty’ introduced under the 2015 Counter-Terrorism and Security Act wherein...

Posted by ah220 on 3 March 2021

Attitudes to digital contact tracing: citizens do not always prioritise privacy and prefer a centralised NHS system over a decentralised one.

Citizens’ concerns about data privacy may reduce adoption of COVID-19 contact tracing apps, making them less effective. Based on a choice experiment (conjoint experiment), Laszlo Horvath, Susan Banducci, and Oliver James find that citizens...

Posted by ah220 on 5 November 2020

No, even this time is not that different COVID-19, the sudden and mysterious death of the SGP and European integration

By Jonathan C. Kamkhaji University of Exeter associate fellow and Polytechnic University of Milan What if, within a couple of weeks, the term limit for US presidency was removed? What if,...

Posted by ah220 on 2 September 2020

The impact of Brexit on Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) cooperation and safety and security in the UK and the European Union

Bill Tupman, Honorary Fellow, Centre for European Governance, University of Exeter June 25, 2020 As Brexit approaches one of many questions is, what will its impact be on Justice and...

Posted by ah220 on 25 June 2020

A reflection and a warning – Universal Support

Universal Support. Christos Kotsogiannis, Professor of Economics, University of Exeter, and Director of the Tax Administration Research Centre (TARC). March 26, 2020 Who would expect this three months ago? Certainly,...

Posted by Site Admin on 29 April 2020

Conservative Party divisions contributed to the failure of Brexit negotiations, new study shows

By Claire Dunlop, Scott James and Claudio Radaelli. Divisions in the Conservative Party allowed the European Union to set the agenda during Brexit negotiations, a new study shows. The EU was...

Posted by Francesca Farmer on 21 October 2019

Regulating Financial Technology – Professor Alison Harcourt

Originally appeared in Risk and Regulation: http://www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/assets/CARR/documents/R-R/2019-Summer/190701-riskregulation-05.pdf Financial technology (FinTech) is greatly changing the way in which citizens live and work on a day to day basis. Fintech refers to technological...

Posted by Site Admin on 2 September 2019

Farmer-centred innovation and knowledge exchange at the ESEE 2019

Beth Dooley is a second-year PhD student with the Centre for Rural Policy Research in the Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology Department. She received the Rowan Johnstone PhD Studentship to explore the myriad complexities...

Posted by Site Admin on 16 July 2019

New Project on the Prevalence of Public Support for Conspiracy Theories in Europe

Dr Florian Stoeckel, Lecturer in Politics, University of Exeter In this new project, we measure the prevalence of conspiratorial thinking in Europe. We also seek to better understand the reasons...

Posted by Site Admin on 28 June 2019

Piercing the Internet’s veil under the New Deal (Dr Joasia Luzak, University of Exeter)

With its announcement of the New Deal for consumers in April 2018, the European Commission gave itself a tall order. At one point of time, the Roosevelt’s New Deal revolutionised...

Posted by Site Admin on 24 April 2019