I wrote about the absence of discussion around neoliberalism, the real problem facing the UK and Europe, for the Cambridge University Press blog.

I was in Madrid on May 5 at the invitation of the BBVA Foundation to discuss my contribution on the EU’s impact on national democracy for their new collection of essays: The Search for Europe: Contrasting Approaches.

Spanish readers: Here is the link to an article on “The Seven Challenges Facing Europe,” for which I was interviewed along with Christopher Bickerton, published yesterday in El Español.

Please see my recent op-ed for Social Europe Journal, Saving Social Europe: Going Beyond Governing by the Rules and Ruling by the Numbers, in which I write about the continued travails of the Eurozone crisis, with suggestions on how to move beyond the austerity policies enacted since 2008.

Given the abject failure of the neo-liberal policy offer, why has it persisted as the dominant approach to European policymaking and is there any way out? Mark Thatcher and I address this question in an opinion piece for the online think-tank Policy Network. The piece builds on their argument in our co-edited book, Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy.

Does the euro crisis ring the death knell for European citizens' influence in the EU decision-making process?

In receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, the leaders of the European Union should not only take a moment to feel justifiable pride in the recognition of the EU’s past accomplishments, but they should also take a moment to reflect on what they’re doing today in the midst of the Eurozone crisis that may undermine that very achievement.

As part of its EuroFuture paper series, the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is releasing a paper I wrote entitled, “Can the EU Bicycle Turn into a Jet Plane by 2020?”

Most of the attention to the eurozone crisis in the business pages of US newspapers is on economics. Will eurozone countries default on their debt? Are the spreads on debt too high to be sustainable? Are the banks the real risk? Will the euro break up with a Greek exit? Or will it be Germany?

In recent months, more and more attention has been focused on the failure of the Eurozone leaders’ policies of fiscal consolidation, with growth presented as the alternative. The problems for the Eurozone stem not just from the policies, however. They also come from the governance processes and the politics—or lack thereof.

The big question for the EU in 2012 is not only: “will it solve the debt crisis?” It is also: “will it survive the solution?”

Markets are reeling because Europe's leaders have only offered up half-measures to resolve the crisis. Not until Brussels, Paris, and Berlin realize the fundamental flaw in their current approach—a lack of real political and economic integration across the eurozone—will there be an end in sight.

The resignations of Papandreou in Greece and Berlusconi in Italy, replaced by technocratic governments, have raised questions about the democracy of technocracy.