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'Ik wil daarom een pleidooi houden voor de moeilijk begaanbare dunne richel van de vooruitgang (...) voortdurend balancerend tussen naïviteit en paranoia.' Geweldig, Robbert Dijkgraaf nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/10…

A perfect day to advertise this event we put together with Jasper Simons and ACES - Amsterdam Centre for European Studies Join us and our great panellists André Gerrits, Ferenc Laczó, and Dr Karolina Pomorska at @SPUI25 to discuss the changing political and economic significance of Central and Eastern Europe! Link below

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Join us Thursday 9 November in @SPUI25 Amsterdam for a great panel discussion on today's significance of Central and Eastern Europe to European politics. Speakers: André Gerrits, Karolina Pomorska and Ferenc Laczó. Program (and stream): spui25.nl/programma/euro… w. Aleksandra Komornicka

The "Budapest in Warsaw" experiment is finally about to end, but why were social/econ policies more solidaristic and developmentalist under 🇵🇱PiS than 🇭🇺Fidesz? It has to do with the two populist parties' very different alliances with organized interests 🧵doi.org/10.1177/102452…

Hungary is reportedly set to receive almost €1 billion in EU funds without any conditions attached, after RRF and cohesion funds have been withheld for quite some time on rule of law grounds. A thread on the mechanics behind this number:

Very happy that this has found a home in a cool journal like Review of International Political Economy 🥳🥳🥳 This is the third paper out of my PhD thesis, it took me 5 years to publish it because I work following Five-year plans 👨‍🔧👨‍🔧👨‍🔧 Open access here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy Valentines day! Is there love between Eastern and Western Europe? Find out from our brand new JEPP article, co-written with Clara Volintiru Rachel Epstein and Adam Fagan on the East-West divide in the European Union! Spoiler: It's complicated. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Sadly, great primatologist Frans de Waal passed away. Many thought provoking questions and insights concerning human morality, power, kindness and culture in his work. For one recent interview, on his last book: open.spotify.com/episode/6UkH1c…

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Eerste indrukken #regeerakkoord: 1. Eerst het zoet dan het zuur. De regering gaat het eerste jaar geld uitdelen (7,4 mrd budgettaire verruiming in 2025) en gaat pas daarna bezuinigen. De timing is saillaint. De politieke pijn van ingrepen in publieke sector wordt uitgesteld.

Nog net voor aanvang van de EP verkiezingen morgen, een column over illiberalisme in Europa en E.M. Forster, in Publiek Denken: publiekdenken.nl/opinie/columns… Europees Parlement NL USBO @EUolifant

What an awesome crowd & a gem of a conference! 🥰

The next few weeks could begin a shift that would make the Democratic Party more attractive to more Americans for decades. My take:

Great pleasure to be part of this panel! Paper w Cornel Ban. Join us for much needed CEE political economy discussions on 21 May (online, registration needed) or other very promising panels at the conference Capitalist Transformations in Eastern and Central Europe, 19-22 May