Professor Kalypso Nicoladis writes further on Merkel & Renzi

Kalypso Nicolaïdis has written a piece in the Financial Times (3 July) entitled 'Merkel and Renzi are the partners who can reshape Europe'.

In the article she writes: 'This “Merkenzi” alliance could be good news for both the EU and the UK. The EU needs pragmatic leaders who agree that there are no absolute answers to the question of whether it should do more or less. Mr Renzi has spoken of the need for collective action on energy, infrastructure, climate and immigration. But he has also said that he is fed up with the EU acting like an “old boring aunt”. Italian, Spanish and Greek citizens do not need Brussels to tell them that they should not tolerate corruption and nepotism.'

You can read the full article (behind an FT paywall) here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8ff7f1a8-01ec-11e4-ab5b-00144feab7de.html#axzz36laiBFZL

You can also read more from Kalypso on this partnership here: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/news/kalypso-nicolaidis-on-merkenzis-europe.html