Political crossroads ahead in Sweden: The signs are red-green. EPIN Commentary No. 20, 31 July 2014

The political balance in Sweden was upset in this year’s elections to the European Parliament (EP). The far-right ‘Sweden Democrats’ almost tripled their vote-share and the Greens gained enough votes to become the second-largest Swedish party in the EP after the Social Democrats. Support for the current government incumbents, the Moderates, fell beyond expectation. The party will not recover in time for the national elections in September, whereas both the Greens and the Sweden Democrats are likely to repeat their EP election success. Since the Sweden Democrats are unlikely to form part of the coalition government – the election-winners will be the Greens and Social Democrats – Sweden’s political landscape is set to undergo a shift to the left

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Advances in EU Gender Equality: Missing the mark? EPIN [Working] Paper No. 41/September 2014

Gender balance has been a particularly salient issue in the recent process of formulating the list of designated commissioners. Jean-Claude Juncker’s success, as President-elect of the European Commission, in securing the designation of nine women as commissioners should be seen in perspective. Female representation in top EU positions remains low. This paper analyses the EP committees, finding a clear divergence in legislative influence between committees chaired by men and women. Although female political representation has been increasing, this is happening at a very slow pace and the most influential leadership roles in the EP remain dominated by men. This raises questions of the possible need to resort to stronger measures to improve female representation in the EU institutions

Thematic Progression and Lexicogrammatical Features Analysis in English Song Lyrics Written by Indonesian and English Songwriters

The present study investigates the appearance of Thematic Progression and Lexicogrammatical Features in English song lyrics written by English and Indonesian songwriters by applying theories of Systemic Functional Grammar by using Hallidays Lexicogrammatical Features and Danes’ Thematic Progression framework. This study discovers that the thematic Progression patterns and Lexicogrammatical features found in the data are similar. This study revealed that in English song lyrics written by both Indonesian and English songwriters, the appearance of the most frequent Thematic Progression patterns and lexicogrammatical Features are similar. The data showed that Multiple Theme Progression appears as the most frequent Thematic Progression pattern. The data also showed the use of Personal Pronoun appears as the most frequent Lexicogrammatical feature. These findings suggested that the texts are coherent and, by the dominant use of personal pronoun ‘I’ and ‘you’, the songwriters tend to speak directly to their listeners so it could be easily understood by the readers/listeners. Keywords: Theme, Thematic Progression, Lexicogrammatical Features, song lyric

Balancing Priorities and Emergency Measures: Luxembourg’s Council Presidency. EPIN Commentary No. 30/15 January 2016

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg held the reins of the EU Council presidency between 1 July and 31 December 2015. This was the 12th time that the second-smallest and the richest EU member state1 held the rotating Council presidency. As one of the founding members of the EU, Luxembourg has sound experience to bring to this role. It was, however, their first presidency since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty and its introduction of the trio presidency format, this time including Italy and Latvia. Under the slogan ‘A Union for the Citizens’, Luxembourg had the task of concluding certain major dossiers before the end of the trio’s term and was able to contribute to its overarching agenda, especially regarding the priorities of financial stability, growth stimulation and the digital agenda

Labour Market Integration of Refugees: A comparative survey of Bosnians in five EU countries. CEPS Special Report No. 155, December 2016

This study traces the integration experience of Bosnian refugees from the Balkan wars with the aim of drawing lessons for the current wave of refugees entering Europe. Integration is a slow-moving process. Looking closely at Bosnian refugees enables us to see past immediate integration outcomes and take a longer-term view. Another consideration in the design of this study is that there is significant overlap among the countries affected by the two refugee crises. Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden all saw a large absolute and relative influx of refugees in both 2015 and in the years between 1992 and 1995, when the largest share of Bosnians arrived in Western Europe. The study carries out an in-depth examination of their labour market integration in those five countries

AN ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY HARRY POTTER IN J.K. ROWLING’S NOVEL “HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE”

IRMA RATNA NINGSIH: AN ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY HARRY POTTER IN J.K. ROWLING’S NOVEL “HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE” Politeness is a strategy of people in being polite to build a harmony in term of communication. Politeness is one of the communication strategies that emphasize on how to be polite in words and actions. People usually use politeness in order to maintain and develop their relationship. If the individual can use politeness, automatically the individual can reach a running well and going smoothly of life. The aims of this research are to know what politeness strategies that used by Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer‟s Stone novel by J.K. Rowling, to know to whom Harry Potter uses the politeness strategies and to know how Harry Potter uses the politeness strategies in his utterances. The method of this research is discourse analysis. It used because it is concerning with describing instances of language use in context. From the data can be explored in a systematic way, the relation between language use from text and the context of occurrence of politeness strategies that used by Harry Potter. The data of this research taken from a novel entitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer‟s Stone by J.K. Rowling. The main theory to analyze the data taken from the book entitled Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage by Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson (1987). As results of this research, the writer found 90 data which contain politeness strategies and about 16 data has been analyzed by the writer. All the data belong to the four politeness strategies as being proposed by Brown and Levinson, namely bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness and off record. Bald on record strategy is used by Harry in the situation of urgency. In positive politeness, Harry uses it to people around him in order to satisfying their positive face. Negative politeness also used by Harry as he wants to satisfy the hearer‟s negative face. While off record strategy used by Harry because he wants to be indirect and gives the hearer clues. Harry used those strategies to his friends, teachers and character around him. Finally, the researcher expects this research will be able to help the next researcher who conducts the research in the same field. It is suggested to further researchers to be able to investigate other objects which might contain politeness strategy and use another theory of politeness strategy

The integration of Bosnian refugees: an encouraging story that provides lessons for the current migration crisis

The migration crisis has posed a number of challenges for European countries, but what lessons can be learned from previous experiences with large scale migration? Mikkel Barslund, Matthias Busse, Karolien Lenaerts, Lars Ludolph and Vilde Renman present evidence from a study of the integration of Bosnian refugees in Europe following the Balkan wars in the 1990s. They find that with the right integration policies and labour market conditions, it is possible to achieve a high level of integration among refugees within a short period of time