Following the recent beginning of a new trial against Geert Wilders, Joost van Spanje gave several interviews in the last few weeks, including interviews for de Volkskrant, Wakker Nederland, Edite Nederland and the German public broadcaster ZDF. Claes de Vreese gave interviews concerning the campaigns for the referendum on the approval of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, including interviews for Nieuwsuur and…
On 22 March, Wouter van der Brug and Claes de Vreese will launch their book about the (un)intended consequences of elections of the European Parliament. Their book provides an account of the consequences elections of the European Parliament. Starting in 1979, the book analyzes to what extent the elections fulfilled expectations about the impact they would have and which…
The latest issue of the open-access journal Politics and Governance, guest edited by Wouter van der Brug, Katjana Gattermann and Claes de Vreese, has been published under the title “How Different Were the European Elections of 2014?” It can be found in full here.
Wouter van der Brug and Claes de Vreese are organising a debate on the use of referenda on April 5, on the evening before the Ukraine referendum. This event is organised in cooperation with SPUI25. Speakers include Hans Anker, Thijs Niemantsverdriet, and Aukje van Roessel. For more information and registration, please see here.
Claes de Vreese was interviewed on the campaign and referenda on European issues for an article in de Volkskrant on Saturday. Joost van Spanje was speaking at the conference “Europe’s ‘Historic Test’: Migration and the Politics of Multiculturalism in the EU” at the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence, University of Denver, Denver, CO, on Monday. His talk was about “Anti-immigrant party support…
Jakob Ohme, visiting PhD student from the University of Southern Denmark at ASCoR, was awarded the Danish Science Foundations Elite Researcher Travel grant and received this honour and travel grant at an event in Copenhagen last Thursday chaired by the Minister of Science and the Danish Crown Princess. Congratulations Jakob!