By Gorana Mišić (Central European University) It is old news that the first coalition between HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) and MOST (Bridge of Independent Lists) fell apart over the conflict of interest of the first deputy PM and HDZ President Tomislav Karamarko in June 2016 – after only six months in power. New elections in [...]
Presentation at the 24rd Council for European Studies Annual Conference in Glasgow. View LINK
By Veronica Anghel (University of Bucharest) Following yet another electoral fortune, the Social Democratic Party of Romania (PSD) successfully formed the Grindeanu cabinet with support party the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) in December 2016. As the first year in the life of the Grindeanu cabinet unfolded, there was little change in the distribution [...]
Moderator at the Roundtable with Party Representatives on the “The Potential for Political Finance Reform in Spain” (Valencia) Speakers: Juan Vicente Perez Aras (PP), Vice-Chairman of the Committee for the Improvement of Democracy, Fight against Corruption, and Legal and Institutional Reform of the Congress of Deputies Artemi Rallo Lambaste (PSOE), Member of the Committee for [...]
Meeting of "party finance experts" at International IDEA Headquarters (Stockholm) for the re-launching of the PFDB.
By Boban Stojanović (University of Belgrade) Serbia gets a new, fifth government since the 2012, when the Serbian Progressive Party came to power. After the election in 2012, we had twice early parliamentary elections, in 2014 on which Vučić had the goal to further increase his power and increase the number of MPs. With the [...]
By Nisida Gjoksi (London School of Economics) Background Albania broke-free from a 45 years long totalitarian communist regime in the 1990s. The road to democratization was strongly interlinked with the process of EU accession and the country received the candidate status in June 2014 and became a NATO member in 2009. Its path to democratization [...]
Research at the National library and the Kyrgyz parliament (Dschogorku Kengesch) in Bishkek.
Keynote speech on "The Crisis of Political Parties and Democracy" at the 25th School of Political Leaders (Szkoła Liderów) in Warsaw (Poland). View KEYNOTE SPEECH
Interview on "EU-UK Brexit negotiations", Chile's leading newspaper (El Mercurio) View LINK
