How much ‘authority’ do local authorities have when it comes to climate policy-making? And how does this relate to the reasons why local government was set up in the first place? The 2015 Paris agreement on climate change will come into force on 4th November 2016. However, persuading national governments to sign and then ratify… Read More Peter Eckersley: Why are English and German councils addressing climate change in different ways?

The Brexit vote should prompt researchers to forge a new understanding of how the EU works and a new vision of what it should achieve, says Henrik Scheller. The Brexit referendum has laid bare the peculiar interplay of integration and disintegration that has been a core feature of EU politics since at least the outbreak… Read More Henrik Scheller: Rising populism shows the need for fresh thinking on the EU