Simon Bulmer
Professor of European Politics, University of Sheffield
The politics and economics of Brexit
Simon Bulmer & Lucia Quaglia - 25 May 2018Brexit may dominate in the UK but it is just one of several challenges to governance and integration facing the EU
The EU a year after the UK referendum: new momentum and optimism?
Simon Bulmer - 23 June 2017With the EU issue in the UK far from settled, reports of the demise of the EU and the Eurozone have been greatly exaggerated
Negotiating the impossible? Brexit after the election
Simon Bulmer - 14 June 2017Multiple scenarios now exist for the imminent Brexit negotiations. An informed deliberation over the options must be the immediate way forward
Angela Merkel’s Germany: still liberals’ best hope for 2017?
Simon Bulmer - 18 January 2017To secure a fourth term a less liberal version of Angela Merkel may emerge as she reacts to the domestic and global tumult of the last year
Britain and Brexit: the earthquake and its aftershocks
Simon Bulmer - 30 June 2016Six key issues reveal the early impact of the Brexit earthquake, but this is uncharted territory and more aftershocks will follow
Britain and the EU referendum: a story of losing control?
Simon Bulmer - 28 April 2016Controlling the case for Remain and unpacking the Leave arguments about regaining control are shaping up to be key deciding factors ahead of June 23rd
Key questions for the coming EU referendum
Simon Bulmer - 23 February 2016We now have a date but there are plenty of big questions and unknown steps between now and 23rd June
The real ‘new politics’ of post-crisis Britain: Part I
Craig Berry - 18 February 2016The Conservatives understand – and exploit – the electorate’s concerns about ‘place’
Vorsprung durch Technik? Germany and the Eurozone crisis
Simon Bulmer - 27 May 2015Key aspects of Germany’s approach to the Eurozone crisis are structural, but they still have a ‘dark side’
Merkel, Draghi and Tsipras
Simon Bulmer - 05 February 2015These are the three key European leaders of the moment, but a Eurozone ménage à trois remains highly unlikely…
German power under the spotlight
Simon Bulmer - 06 November 201425 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German institutions, politics and values still present formidable obstacles to real change