Back to school, Brussels!📚 Great to host the College of Europe Alumni at the British Residence, to discuss Dermot Hodson's new book on the history of the EU and the people who made it. Thanks to @goodallgiles for moderating the conversation and to everyone who joined us👏

It was great to talk about my book, Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It, UK Mission to the EU 🇬🇧🇪🇺 yesterday. Thanks to Deputy Ambassador Caroline Read 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 for the warm welcome, CoE Alumni Association for organising and my old classmate Giles Goodall 🇪🇺 for moderating. Yale University Press

Joining presenter Julian Worricker are ⁦Lindsey Tramuta⁩ , journalist and author based in Paris, and ⁦Dermot Hodson⁩ professor at Loughborough University and expert in European politics and digital technologies. Interesting! Do listen 🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…

It was good to talk to George Pendle for his timely piece in Air Mail on Sir James Goldsmith. As I show in my book, Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It, the billionaire MEP was the Godfather of modern right-wing populism. trib.al/sK0t3IV

"Focusing on the people who built the EU as we know it today." Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author Dermot Hodson and Yale University Press! Subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

💡Can integration theories keep up with today’s EU? 🗣️This was the question at the heart of yesterday's debate with Michele Chang, Mark A. Pollack, Dermot Hodson, Uwe Puetter, Michelle Egan, and Sabine Saurugger! 👀What’s your take – time for new integration theories or not?

Our European Consortium for Political Research workshop w/Dermot Hodson on the PE of FinTech takes place in Prague on 20-23 May! Submit your paper by Nov 21: FinTech regulation🤔 Digital money🤖 Power games banks/AM vs Fintech🏦 Fintech & tax avoidance/criminality📛 Crypto investment🚀 lnkd.in/emWbCBwy

❗New Research❗ "Building a European Union ‘Treasury’: Explaining the European Commission's New Approach to Debt Issuance and Management", by Lukas Spielberger, Dermot Hodson, David Howarth and Iacopo Mugnai in the JCMS. Read🔸 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

"Many theories of European Integration have articulated, explicitly or implicitly, a sense of EU hegemony". Interesting and timely new take on integration theory by Patrick Holden in Journal of European Integration. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Dublin is the only large European capital without a metro: what would Leopold Bloom make of that? | Dermot Hodson theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Dublin is the only large European capital without a metro: what would Leopold Bloom make of that? By ⁦Dermot Hodson⁩ Why doesn’t Dublin have better public transport? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'Transport is never far from Bloom’s thoughts as he traverses the city on 16 June 1904'. Read my @theguardian.com article on Joyce, Dublin & MetroLink: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… #bloomsday