Jan Marinus Wiersma, author at Social Europe

Ukraine And EU Enlargement 10 Years After Big Bang

While the world watches nervously the developments in Ukraine, one cannot but ask oneself what would have happened if the EU (and/or NATO for that ... Read more

How To Make EU Governance More Effective

Jan Marinus Wiersma

Recently I was asked to speak somewhere in The Netherlands about Croatia and the European democracy debate. Of course I did not get very far

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