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This is Erik O. Eriksens introduction to ARENA’s annual lecture May 2 2012: Challenges to Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Europe, held by Professor Seyla Benhabib.

Jarle Trondal will hold a joint lecture at the University of Copenhagen 19 April.

Professor and Chair of the Center for Modern European Studies (CEMES) Hans-Jörg Trenz gave his inaugural lecture on 'Mediatisation and European Integration' on Friday 27 January 2012 at the University of Copenhagen.

The Board of the Social Sciences Faculty has appointed a new Board of Directors of ARENA for the period 2012-2015.

A new ARENA newsletter is out with articles on RECON's final conference in Oslo, a new book, a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy, and ARENA researchers' comments on the euro crisis.

Some claim that the Norwegian ‘No’-campaigners won in 1994, but have lost ever since. Every government since 1994 has brought Norway closer to the EU. Where does this leave democracy?

When European leaders meet next week in the latest attempt to rescue the euro, one policy option may tempt them. To stop the contagion plaguing the common currency, simply invite the most troubled members, such as Greece and Italy, to leave.

Christopher Lord argues that a reformed monetary union must include a larger role for the European Parliament.

The eurozone crisis is yet again a painful reminder of how challenging it is to reconcile democracy and capitalism when the political institutions are lacking. It is now the self-appointed troika - the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank - that decides the Greeks’ future living conditions.

CEMES (Centre for Modern European Studies) and the PhD Programme in Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen are organizing an international PhD course on 'Cosmopolitanism in Europe. Idea and Reality'. Application deadline is 15 February.

Some thoughts on the coallition government in Greece

A new RECON newsletter is out with comments on the financial crisis, workshop reports and new publications.

The largest meeting to take place under the Polish Presidency will in all likelihood be a group you have never heard of. Hundreds of participants gather in Warsaw Monday (3 October) for the plenary meeting of COSAC, the biannual meeting of the European Affairs Committees of EU national parliaments, Ian Cooper writes in EUobserver.

A new ARENA newsletter is out with articles on RECON's outreach conferences, the ECPR conference in Iceland and a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

The President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grimsson opened the plenary session of the 6th ECPR General Conference by asking: Could political science keep up with the 21st century? With over 60 sections and 450 panels the conference set out to answer that question with substantial contributions from ARENA researchers.

The current euro crisis has led to many calls for a European fiscal union. It has also led some to conclude that the process of European integration, as begun in the early 1950s, has gone off the rails. Yet, if anything, the demands for a fiscal union are a continuation rather than a repudiation of that early history, Ian Cooper writes in an opinion piece in EUobserver.

It is wrong to talk of just one European crisis. There are at least five European crises (economic, financial, banking, sovereign debt and constitutional) which overlap and reinforce each other. The European Union and its Member States are condemned to fail in their efforts to deal with the crisis until they properly acknowledge its manifold character.

Professor Emeritus Johan P. Olsen is one of Norway’s most prominent, most renowned and most cited social scientists. In 2011 he was elected as a member of The American National Academy of Sciences because of his important contribution to scientific research.

With the current situation in the Arabic countries as a backdrop, this year's MatchPoints Seminar in Aarhus dealt with democracy, democratization and democratic renewal in Denmark, the EU, North America and developing states.

Cathrine Holst will chair a session with Thomas Piketty, Ronald Dworkin, Richard Sennett, and Yves–André Istel at a conference in honour of the late Tony Judt at Sciences-Po in Paris in June.

Can there be democracy beyond the nation state, and in that case: which democracy for Europe?

See live streaming from RECON's outreach conference in Brussels 19 May. How to strengthen democracy in the EU was the key question of the conference.

Can the nation state safeguard democracy in the age of Europeanisation and globalisation? Can democracy as such be reconstituted in Europe, and if so, at what level? How to strengthen democracy in the EU was the key question of the RECON outreach conference May 19.

Professor Emeritus at ARENA, Johan P. Olsen, is elected as member of the American National Academy of Sciences because of his important contribution to scientific research.

The new ARENA newsletter is out with articles on Geert Mak's ARENA lecture, John Erik Fossum and Agustín Menéndez' book 'The Constitution's Gift' and other recent publications from ARENA researchers. In addition there are reports from recent seminars and a list of upcoming ARENA events.