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Vivien Schmidt


Vivien A Schmidt is Jean Monnet professor of European integration in the Pardee School at Boston University and honorary professor at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. Her latest book is Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone (Oxford University Press).

Vivien Schmidt

Making EU economic governance fit for purpose

Vivien Schmidt 5th October 2023

Investing in the future and reforming the fiscal rules are essential, while decentralising and democratising economic governance.

Decentralising and democratising while reforming European economic governance

Vivien Schmidt 9th May 2021

The Conference on the Future of Europe needs to address how EU governance can be refitted to end the crisis of legitimacy.

The EU responds to the coronavirus: déjà vu all over again?

Vivien Schmidt 23rd March 2020

The European Union must manifest real solidarity in response to the coronavirus crisis. Muddling through will not do.

Europe’s ‘soft-core’ future of differentiated integration

Vivien Schmidt 28th November 2019

The best model for the EU is one of differentiated integration—but with a soft rather than a hard core of member states.

How do Progressives Fight Back Against Populism?

Vivien Schmidt 12th April 2017

In recent years, the European Union has suffered through a cascading set of crises, including the Eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis, the security crisis, and Brexit. But rather than bringing the EU together, with concerted responses that would demonstrate its common values on its 60th anniversary, these crises have revealed cross cutting divisions among member […]

Brexit And The EU: A New Deal For All The EU Or No Deal At All?

Vivien Schmidt 1st July 2016

Now that the UK has voted to leave the EU, all the attention has been focused on how it will go about leaving, or even whether it will leave in the end.  But equally important is how the EU responds to Brexit:  whether as an isolated case to be quarantined in order to avoid contagion […]

Missing Topic In #EUref: Neo-liberalism Gone Too Far

Vivien Schmidt 22nd June 2016

As the referendum campaign nears its end, one central issue is remarkable for its absence, despite the fact that it has been a major contributor to the anger that lends support to the Brexit camp:  neo-liberalism.  The revolt against the political parties, the rejection of the experts, the distrust of the elites more generally: all […]

Saving Social Europe: Going Beyond The EU’s ‘Governing By The Rules And Ruling By The Numbers’

Vivien Schmidt 4th December 2014

During the euro’s sovereign debt crisis, European leaders have been obsessed with rules, numbers, and pacts, including the so-called ‘Six-Pack,’ the ‘Two-Pack,’ and the ‘Fiscal Compact,’ each more stringent on the nature of the rules, more restrictive with regard to the numbers, and more punitive for member-states that failed to meet the requirements. In the […]

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Spring Issues

The Spring issue of The Progressive Post is out!


Since President Trump’s inauguration, the US – hitherto the cornerstone of Western security – is destabilising the world order it helped to build. The US security umbrella is apparently closing on Europe, Ukraine finds itself less and less protected, and the traditional defender of free trade is now shutting the door to foreign goods, sending stock markets on a rollercoaster. How will the European Union respond to this dramatic landscape change? .


Among this issue’s highlights, we discuss European defence strategies, assess how the US president's recent announcements will impact international trade and explore the risks  and opportunities that algorithms pose for workers.


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