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Dr Simona Guerra
@drspguerra.bsky.social
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Political scientist | SEI, Sussex PhD | MA in 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 | Euroscepticism, Poland, CEE, Italy, EU early women | @repjournal.bsky.social co-editor & founding co-editor of @PRXjournal.bsky.social | Montalcini scholar 2014 | #EUsky 🇪🇺 | #Firstgen
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The Conference ‘Women and Europe’ starts tomorrow morning at 9am. Two days of debates on both approaches and sources within interdisciplinary studies on women and politics in Europe in the past. #EUsky
Conference, Women and Europe, starts tomorrow morning at 9am for two days at the European University Institute.
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Bravo @gerardofortuna.bsky.social ! The centrist majority may soon shift rightward, see on migration, green policy, and social issues. Next week will tell. #EUsky
From Politico: most files will still pass with a centrist majority. But on migration, green policy and social issues, the gravitational pull is shifting rightward.
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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And remember the work of: Marga Klompé, Maria Probst, Käte Strobel, Marguerite De Riemaecker-Legot, Jacqueline Thôme-Patenotre, Johanna Schouwenaar-Franssen, Erisia Gennai Tonietti, Ilse Elsner, Jacqueline Rutgers, Astrid Lulling, Nilde Iotti, and Colette Flesch.
In the picture: the first 12 women of the European Assembly, then European Parliament of the Six, Marga Klompé, Maria Probst, Käte Strobel, Marguerite De Riemaecker-Legot, Jacqueline Thôme-Patenotre, Johanna Schouwenaar-Franssen, Erisia Gennai Tonietti, Ilse Elsner, Jacqueline Rutgers, Astrid Lulling, Nilde Iotti, and Colette Flesch.
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Looking forward to catching up with colleagues working on Women & Europe in Florence, in less than two weeks, where I will be talking about the challenges of transnational memory - www.eui.eu/events?id=57...
Scholars and professionals from across the social sciences, humanities, and archival sciences will present new research on the evolving role of women in shaping European memory, identity, and historical narratives. The politics of memory at the European - transnational - level involves challenges already met by the House of European History (HEH) in Brussels, where the permanent and temporary exhibitions seek to present a narrative about Europe and European integration. The HEH visitors expected a positive narrative, but why should curators ‘focus only on the positive sides in the context of the obvious crises[is] of the European project’? (Dupont 2020).This research does not seek to tell a positive narrative, does not seek to ‘step into the trap of simply creating new myths’ (Abel’s and MacRae 2021, p. 9), and does not present a ‘hagiography’ - as termed by an anonymous reviewer to one of my manuscripts. The focus is on women’s political agency.
November 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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📬 Forthcoming on European Politics and Society,the 2nd article on my @esrciaasurrey.bsky.social project on the early women of European integration,thanks to the writing time at ULB with @nathaliebrack.bsky.social more on this at the nxt @uaces.bsky.social annual general conf @cbesurrey.bsky.social
Title and abstract of the forthcoming article on the European Common Assembly, later European Parliament of the Six, women and their career. ‘In their own voice: the early women of European integration (1950s-1960s) between political advocacy and European careers’, soon out in European Politics and Society.
June 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Friends will be friends.
Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orban sharing hands and smiling
May 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Recommended reading: ‘Careless People. A story of where I used to work. Power. Greed. Madness.’ By Sarah Wynn-Williams.
The cover of the book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, ‘Careless People. A story of where I used to work. Power. Greed. Madness’. Page 374 of the book by Sarah Wynn-Williams. ‘You’d hope that people who amass the kind of power Facebook has would learn a sense of responsibility, but they don’t show any sign of having done so. In fact, I see the opposite… They profit from the callous and odious things they do. Which seems so crazy.’
May 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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📍 Glad to have secured my ticket, look forward to next Thursday! With @efinkel.bsky.social and @okhromeychuk.bsky.social at @ukrinstitute.bsky.social and @uclssees.bsky.social
Ticket for the event on the new book by Prof Eugene Finkel, ‘Intent to Destroy’, organised by the Ukrainian Institute and the UCL SSEES on Thursday 13 February.
February 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Out and #openaccess, one of many, with the best coauthor, we met in the same panel in 2005 as PhD researchers & it is always a pleasure to work together @fabioserricchio.bsky.social on trust and the EU, is trust actually increasing? Not as much as expected and determinants change across EU MS #EUsky
Out: a new article with Fabio Serricchio on Trust towards the EU We find that the crises have eroded trust, but determinants are different across three regions, education and the economy are likely to affect trust in Eastern Europe; national identity in Western Europe; and attachment towards the EU is the most predominantly significant in Southern Europe.
January 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Looking forward to this presentation next week for the @ecpr.bsky.social SG on the #EuropeanUnion, December 10th

Hope to see you many of you there, with thanks to both the #ECPR and @nathaliebrack.bsky.social
#EUsky #gendersky

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Abstract of my SG EU presentation on a Fairer and more Equal history of European Integration, onTuesday 10th December.
December 2, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Every time I go I take a picture, same with the Altiero Spinelli building, and Altiero Spinelli at the ground floor :)
Altiero Spinelli
November 23, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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If in Luxembourg on Wednesday next week, join us, am so looking forward to joining colleagues and young researchers to talk about my project on the women of the early years of European integration, with a focus on Käte Strobel, as a brilliant leader 🫅
A picture of Käte Strobel, chairing the Committee of Agriculture, post about a forthcoming talk on my project on the early women of European integration, at the University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, 13th November
November 8, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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Good Bye Schengen? Are EU internal borders becoming permanent? Brunner and the challenges of the immigration and internal affairs portfolio, from Politico: www.politico.eu/article/euro...
EU map with the new border controls within the EU Schengen free travel area.
November 5, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Where are you from? theconversation.com/nationality-...
Nationality serves as a status marker, research finds. Published by The Conversation
October 28, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Transparency International Georgia and the violations notified yesterday, hardly an election reflecting citizens’ vote.
Transparency International Georgia on the number of violations notified during yesterday’s election.
October 27, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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Welcome to Meloni’s Italy, people are hungry, give them hubs in Albania and surrogacy ban - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
October 17, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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Klara Dobrev MEP (S&D) addresses Viktor Orban and asks about his relationship with Putin, the poverty in the country, and the state of the health service and hospitals - that were also, in the past, topic of an interesting article by the The New York Times (below) 🇪🇺
Klara Dobrev (S&D) MEP, addressing Orban in the European Parliament
October 9, 2024 at 8:58 AM
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The Italian PM got what she wanted.
Ursula Von der Leyen’s II Commission
September 17, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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Available open access on #Representation, the Journal of Representative Democracy, a special issue on The Voter Experience, packed with new theory and evidence from a group of brilliant researchers and edited by @tobysjames.bsky.social Holly Ann Garnett and Carla Luís
Introduction to the special issue Cover of the journal Representation
August 28, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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x.com/lseeuroppblo... on Käte Strobel, leader of the Socialists in the European Assembly and vice-chair of the Committee of Agriculture at the time of the renovated agricultural policy led by the Dutch Commissioner Sicco Mansholt, thanks to the LSE Europp Blog
March 10, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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📍 Deadline for applications in just two weeks, (27.12.23), if you have any questions, Dr Danilo Di Mauri can help. #research #sovereignty
Call for application, one-year research position in political science, Sovereignty and Italy in comparative perspective, with Prof V. Memoli, University of Catania, deadline for application: 27.12.2023
December 13, 2023 at 6:17 PM
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A favourite :)
December 12, 2023 at 9:13 PM
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Excellent debates on political, economic & social challenges in the #Balkans and the recent European Commission’s opening towards the next enlargement, including an additional financial -economic and social- package proposed, included in the current financial framework (till 2027), leadership wanted
November 11, 2023 at 12:16 PM
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Second contribution with Fernando Casal Bértoa on the 2023 Polish general election, and what we have learned from the result

👉🏽 blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2... from the LSE Europp blog #Poland 🇵🇱🇪🇺 #EUSky
October 24, 2023 at 10:46 AM
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🇪🇺 🇵🇱 Looking forward to talking all things #Poland & the #EU on Monday evening (unfortunately for me only online) at the cultural centre Francesco Luigi Ferrari, in Formigine, series ‘David Sassoli - Che Europa sarà?’ 🇪🇺 with (& thanks to) Prof G. Baldini, University of Bologna #EUSky
October 21, 2023 at 8:43 AM