Library blog

In their usual short and to-the-point style, Polityka Insight (pay wall) published an interesting analysis of the European elections.

Just a few notes from this session, with links to additional resources.

Quite a busy day for think tanks in Brussels today: EPC hosts a presentation by IMF Director Christine Lagarde, of the latest IMF book: Jobs and Growth: Supporting the European Recovery.

We are always looking for interesting papers to report in our (roughly) monthly Think Tank Review. So we could not really miss this year's edition of the Brussels Think Tank Dialogue.

Also of interest, on this topic, the work by Wessels and others on the much less structured control by national parliaments over the European Council.

EU Issue Tracker launched a blog with information and analysis in view of the European elections.

The latest Journal of European Integration carries an article (paywall) on 'The Role of the EU in an Emerging New World Order in the Eyes of the Chinese, Indian and Russian press'.

Despite the growing attention to the performance of anti-system parties in the next European elections, Matthew Goodwin in the New Statesman argues that other elections should be watched closely in 2014.

Mark Blyth's argument in his Austerity: the History of a Dangerous Idea (OUP 2013 - our catalogue record here) was summarised as "austerity doesn’t work. Period”.