RCC is proud to announce a special event for RCC Fellows. Please join us for an off-the-record conversation with Joaquin Almunia about current issues and the political situation in Spain, Europe and the World. 

RSVP is required for this event. Please note that this event is restricted to RCC Fellows and that due to limited seating availability, spaces will be...

During the Eurozone debt crisis, the voice of Spain was missing in European affairs. The focus was on internal reforms. Over the past years, however, Spain is growing above average rates and the new socialist Government of Pedro Sánchez is keen to have a more proactive role in European debates. The European Commission welcomes this. When it comes to reforming the Eurozone, the media and intellectual discussion is too much centered on the possible Franco-German compromises, the blocking capacity of the so-called Hanseatic League led by The Netherlands, and the disrupting potential of the...

The RCC and Harvard Spain are proud to announce a special event for RCC Fellows and Harvard Spain students. Please join us for an off-the-record conversation with Joaquín Almunia about current issues and the political situation in Spain, Europe and the World. 

...

This discussion will consider how the interests, diplomatic strategies and engagement of the United Stated, the United Kingdom and the European Union in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean have evolved and where they currently stand. It will also reflect on the implications for Cyprus and the broader region...

The new scenario for the construction of public opinion caused by the technological revolution is generating profound changes in governance and international relations. The digital communication used in a disruptive and malicious way to alter the public opinion of society is becoming a weapon of war increasingly used by state and non state actors.... Read more about Russian Attempts to Destabilize the European Union. Digital Disruption in the Catalonian Public Debate

Blustein will discuss his research on the secret negotiations between International Monetary Fund (IMF) staffers and German and French finance ministries officials on the Greek debt crisis in the spring of 2010.... Read more about The IMF, the Eurozone and the First Rescue of Greece

RCC is pleased to announce this event to be held at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, featuring Athanasios Orphanides, Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management.... Read more about The Euro Area Crisis Six Years after the “Original Sin”

RCC is pleased to announce this event, organized by the Minda the Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, featuring former...

RCC is pleased to announce this event to be held at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, featuring Panayotis J. Tsakonas, Professor of International Relations, Security Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis, Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, Rhodes.... Read more about Forced Migration in the Mediterranean: EU and South European States' Perspectives and Strategies

RCC is pleased to announce this talk by Pierpaolo Barbieri, Executive Director, Greenmantle; Special Advisor, Institute of New Economic Thinking and Berggruen Council on the Future of Europe. The event will take place at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.... Read more about Hitler’s Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War

RCC is pleased to sponsor this event featuring Carlo Cottarelli, an IMF Executive Director for Italy, Albania, Greece, Malta, Portugal and San Marino since November 2014.... Read more about Italy during and after the 2008-9 crisis. Is it over? And what are its country specific and Euro-area causes and impact?

RCC is pleased to announce this panel which take place at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

... Read more about Panel on the Far-Right in Europe

RCC is pleased to announce this event, sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.... Read more about The Political Consequences of the Euro Crisis in the Debtor States

RCC is pleased to announce the following lecture featuring Takis Pappas, Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute; Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia, Greece, and Joaquin Almunia, former Vice-President, former Commissioner for Competition and former Commissioner Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission

... Read more about Populisms in Greece and Spain

2014 marks the fortieth anniversary of the Portuguese transition to democracy. This conference will bring together scholars and policymakers from Portugal to discuss the impact of the transition and the country’s evolution in the last four decades.... Read more about From Revolution to Disillusion – Portugal’s Democracy after 40 Years