Articles by Ariadna Ripoll Servent

November 29, 2023

🔮 When populist governments (un)make European Union policies

Ariadna Ripoll Servent

The presence of populist governments in European Union policy-making has been largely ignored. Ariadna Ripoll Servent and Natascha Zaun argue that we should pay attention to populists’ behaviour in the Council of the EU. Populist governments do not play by the normal rules of the game; rather, they use ‘unpolitics’. This destructive approach to policy-making was instrumental in blocking a reform of EU migration politics

Ariadna Ripoll Servent

Professor for Politics of the European Union and Academic Director of the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies, University of Salzburg

Ariadna is also visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Her main research interests are European integration, EU institutions, informal decision-making processes, populism and Euroscepticism as well as EU internal and security policies, with a focus on EU asylum and migration.

Her publications have appeared in many high-ranked journals.

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Institutional and Policy Change in the European Parliament: Deciding on Freedom, Security and Justice
Palgrave MacMillan, 2015

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