ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Bellamy

Richard Bellamy is the Director of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute. He took up the Directorship on the 1st of May 2014, on exceptional leave from his position as Professor of Political Science at University College, London (UCL).

POSTS BY Richard Bellamy

16 January 2019

Richard Bellamy

On Mushroom Reasoning and Kostakopoulou’s Argument for Eurozenship

Dora Kostakopoulou makes a spirited case for an autonomous status of European Union citizenship – one that is not related to the possession of citizenship of a Member State. However, while I sympathise with some of the concerns lying behind this proposal, I regard it as a misguided way of addressing them that is based in its turn on a misunderstanding of the nature of citizenship and of the EU and its achievements – albeit one shared by a number of the EU’s prime actors as well as certain of its foes. Continue reading >>

22 November 2016

Richard Bellamy

The End of the Eurocrats’ Dream

The premise of this timely and important book is that the Euro crisis has placed the EU in an existential predicament that cannot be resolved in the usual fashion of yet more of the same. Though there is surprisingly little by way of a sketch of what might have been the Eurocrats’ dream, the reader is left in no doubt that we are currently living through what might best be termed the Eurocrats’ nightmare – a form of governance that falls far short of the current challenges confronting the EU, and is indeed partly promotive of them. Continue reading >>