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Jeffrey Sommers

Jeffrey Sommers, Centre for Political Economy, Visiting Professor Political Science Department, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania; and Professor of Political Economy & Public Policy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.

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Why Solar Grids, Not American LNG, Should Power Europe Next

Jeffrey Sommers, Daniel Pop and Cosmin Marian

A southern-solar, north-south grid offers Europe an escape from both Russian gas and overpriced American LNG.

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Romania’s Tiger Economy Is Running Out of Fuel

Jeffrey Sommers and Cosmin Marian

The EU’s fastest-growing economy of the past two decades risks stalling unless it dramatically increases its rock-bottom spending on research and education.

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Housing Crisis Threatens to Fracture Central and Eastern Europe

Jeffrey Sommers, Daniel Pop and Cosmin Marian

A lack of affordable housing in urban centres is driving political instability across Central and Eastern Europe.

No People, Big Problem: Democracy And Its Discontents In Latvia’s National Elections

Jeffrey Sommers

No people, no problem (Нет людей, никаких проблем) is the quote often attributed to Joseph Stalin. Yet, if there is a lesson from Latvia’s October