Recovery Fund: beyond the veto
EU Recovery Fund: beyond the veto In this contribution, we look at feasible alternatives to ensure that the European Union can deal with the post-pandemic recovery should Poland and Hungary … Continue reading
New publication out! Special Issue: Collective Identities and Integration of Core State Powers
This JCMS special issue, co-edited with Theresa Kuhn, explores the relationship between collective identities and the integration of core state powers, that is, the delegation of powers to a centralized … Continue reading
New publication out!Common Currency, Common Identity?
Does European institution building in key areas of national sovereignty go hand in hand with the emergence of a common identity among European citizens? Drawing on a new study, Fedra … Continue reading
Arbitrage, Globalization, and Populism
Populism is a conspiracy—but not the one you think. Lots of academic research (mine included) and intellectual reflection has long assumed that populism is the consequence of “un-managed” globalization. While … Continue reading
Statue-toppling and imagined communities
A few words on the waves of statue-topping we are witnessing. I am genuinely puzzled. For once, about time: celebrating genocidal rulers (Leopold II is all over Brussels), slavers, murderers … Continue reading
New publication out! Support for EU Unemployment risk-sharing: a question of economic ideology or EU support?
In this paper, published on JEPP in January 2020, Theresa Kuhn, Frank Vandenbroucke and myself exploit the EURS dataset to assess how economic ideology and EU attitudes interplay in determining … Continue reading
New publication out! Neofunctionalism revisited
In this article, published in November on the Journal of European integration, I provide an update to Neofunctionalism as a static theory of European integration (you heard more about its … Continue reading
New publication out! Euroscepticism: a tale of two crises.
In the paper “A tale of two Crises”, recently published on Comparative European Politics, Ann Kathrin Reinl and myself present original econometric estimates of the joint effect of the Euro- … Continue reading
Will she stay or will she go?
Will she stay or will she go? The UK is waiting to know the fate of May and of Brexit. A pivotal issue, at this point, is whether the Tories … Continue reading
SPE Award Decision 2018
Francesco Nicoli, who defended his PhD in February 2017, was awarded the Supranational Political Economy Thesis Prize for his dissertation on the Political Economy of the Eurocrisis, supervised by professor … Continue reading
Francesco Nicoli - junior professor of political economy 