A political turn-around? The UK Prime Minister’s epiphany on the EU.

This week, David Cameron was on a mission in Brussels to re-sell his controversial speech held in January. In his speech, the Prime Minister promised an “in-out” referendum on British EU membership after the next elections, as support for the EU was “wafer-thin” in Britain after poor crisis management. Cameron does have a point: Eurosceptics have gained ground within the Conservative Party and Britain, but also all over Europe. So, why has Cameron changed his opinion and now tries to make-believe that his speech was nothing more than a list of proposals benefiting the whole of the EU

Founding of Anti-Euro party: An “Alternative for Germany”?

While the euro finance ministers where gathering in Dublin to discuss saving the common currency, yet another group of self-acclaimed politicians gathered in Berlin. A new party aims to enter German parliament after elections in September: The Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD)

Modelling human choices: MADeM and decision‑making

Research supported by FAPESP 2015/50122-0 and DFG-GRTK 1740/2. RP and AR are also part of the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics FAPESP grant (2013/07699-0). RP is supported by a FAPESP scholarship (2013/25667-8). ACR is partially supported by a CNPq fellowship (grant 306251/2014-0)