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Dr Simona Guerra

@drspguerra.eurosky.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| FRSA | #EUsky 🇪🇺 | #Firstgen

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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
With my contribution on decreasing levels of support for the EU, and what happens across different age groups, regions, and social groups, why this happens and what next (using the ESS data).
Polish farmer’s attitudes towards the EUPolish attitudes towards the EU by age group
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
📚 Free on Thursday 29 October? Join Kasia, Fernando and me at the University of Cambridge, with our brilliant chair Stanley Bill who has organised the event to talk about our Handbook and the latest developments in Polish politics: www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/news/polish-...
Cover of the Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
Cześć, jak się masz? #ecprgc26 @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social
St Mary’s Church and Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Main Market Square, Old Town, Kraków. As if it were 2001, but a bit different.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 31/05/2026
Sunday at home.
Sunday, Tuscany
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026
Thanks to the director of PAN in Rome, Dr Magdalena Wrana, and the authors of chapters of the Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics and guests who have joined us today for a day of debates on Polish politics, economics, history, and international relations, more events soon.
Accademia Polacca delle Scienza (PAN) in Rome, event room, with the Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics on the table at the centre of the picture.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 12/05/2026
If you are not at Surrey tmrw for the presentation of the Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics, we will be in Rome at the Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre on Thursday 21 May - more presentations will follow, we look forward to talking about the Handbook & Poland, past, present & future 🇵🇱
Poland as a Laboratory of Democracy - half-day conference at the Polish Academy of Science in Rome Programme starting at 2pm with the opening speech of Magdalena Wrana, director of the PAS Scientific Centre in Rome Poland and Europe starting at 16:55 and closing with cocktail reception
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026
Lured into fighting in Ukraine. Jobs are advertised via WhatsApp and Telegram, unclear how many men have been enrolled, but cases have emerged across nine countries. 1,000 in Kenya alone, only 30 men have returned alive. @ The New York Times
The National Intelligence Service in Kenya found that 1,000 Kenyans had gone to Russia and end ed up in Ukraine so far. Only 30 of them have returned alive… The companies appear as travel agencies or job placements firms on WhatsApp or Telegram… Lured into fighting in Ukraine. Article by Matthew Mpoke Bigg, John Eligon and Zimasa Matiwane, New York Times.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 23/03/2026
Without required 50% +1 turnout required, high turnout indicated that the opposition was mobilised and at the moment shows a rather significant victory for the rejection of the government’s long supported proposal
Il Post headline
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 19/03/2026
Of course she does, closest ideological ally in Europe, talked about that just after the Italian general election at Sussex #EUsky it’s a balancing act between von der Leyen and her Hungarian friend.
Meloni and Orban in a previous meeting in Rome, from Euronews, Roberto Monaldo/LaPress
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 09/02/2026
Use promotion code for 30% off!
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 09/02/2026
📚 It’s with me 🥳 The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics is available as hard copy and I will leave a flier for discount and EBook, details available online global.oup.com/academic/pro... with 56 chapters and 1168 Pages, thanks to all authors and Kasia and Fernando 💫
Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics (2025)My chapter 46, explaining attitudes towards the European Union.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 27/01/2026
💫 Glad my early women of European integration found an issue and volume www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and what an issue, with my PhD supervisor, a colleague whose research is always a pleasure to read on the case of Croatia and someone, I do not know, but shares my same surname :)
The first twelve women of the Common Assembly (1952-1958) and European Parliament of the Six (1958-1972), official portrait, European Parliament.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 12/01/2026
🥁 happy news: @oxfordunipress.bsky.social released a discount offer to buy the new Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics, academic.oup.com/edited-volume/61792 already available via Oxford Academic, you can have its 1168 pages with you or you can ask your library to buy a copy at a lower price #Poland
First page of The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics (2025)Discount flyer, AUFLY30, to buy The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 10/01/2026
📚 Happy 2026! Forthcoming in the Journal of Language and Politics a study I started a while ago and I am focusing on, sources and changes of Euroscepticism, how it is produced and its impact. Look forward to seeing it out. #Euroalternativism #populism #anti-populism #EUlegitimacy #contestedpolitics
Abstract of the forthcoming article, It takes two to tango. Euroscepticism and contestation within and outside the EU, in the Journal of Language and Politics.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 26/12/2025
Greens (among those who are 18-25 years old) and Reform (among those not having an A-level) challenge the traditional UK two-party system, John Curtice for @uk.theconversation.com
‘The problem is that the two parties face competition for these demographic groups from the Greens and Reform. Last year the Greens won as much as 21% of the vote among under -25s. Reform secured 25% among those who do not have an A-level or its equivalent, nearly matching Tories.’
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 13/12/2025
Warning ⚠️ don’t say you did not see it, in IT @casmudde.bsky.social explains Trump’s Strategy, working with those European countries that wish to consolidate their national greatness and resist against the current European trajectory (Hungary, Italy) - that has already shifted @internazionale.it
Opinion piece by Cas Mudde originally published on Aftonbladet.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 30/11/2025
🤩 Sunday’s reading: Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work, by Allison Tyra @infinite-women.com - finding the same in my current project on the early women of the European Assembly - quite common across fields in history, but also in the present (see sport) 1/
The cover of the book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work, by Allison Tyra, 2025
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 22/11/2025
💫 The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics is ready for Christmas! With the opening chapter by Professor Norman Davies and 56 chapter by more than 80 fantastic authors (I cannot tag them all but would love to), many thanks to all starting from the co-editors (Fernando is not here, Kasia should be)
The Oxford Hanbook of Polish Politics, edited by Katarzyna Walecka, Simona Guerra, and Fernando Casal Bértoa, Oxford University Press, 2025.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 09/11/2025
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.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 06/11/2025
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.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 01/11/2025
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.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 01/11/2025
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.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 05/06/2025
📬 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.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 27/05/2025
Friends will be friends.
Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orban sharing hands and smiling
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 04/05/2025
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.’
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 05/02/2025
📍 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.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 20/01/2025
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 EUWe 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.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 02/12/2024
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 ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Abstract of my SG EU presentation on a Fairer and more Equal history of European Integration, onTuesday 10th December.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 23/11/2024
Every time I go I take a picture, same with the Altiero Spinelli building, and Altiero Spinelli at the ground floor :)
Altiero Spinelli
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 08/11/2024
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
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 05/11/2024
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.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 28/10/2024
Where are you from? theconversation.com/nationality-...
Nationality serves as a status marker, research finds. Published by The Conversation
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 27/10/2024
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.
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 17/10/2024
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
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 09/10/2024
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
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 17/09/2024
The Italian PM got what she wanted.
Ursula Von der Leyen’s II Commission
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 28/08/2024
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 issueCover of the journal Representation
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 10/03/2024
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
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 13/12/2023
📍 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
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 12/12/2023
A favourite :)
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 11/11/2023
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
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 24/10/2023
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
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 21/10/2023
🇪🇺 🇵🇱 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
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 18/10/2023
🙋🏻‍♀️ Join us in person or online for a late afternoon talk on how equality is understood and what type of women are represented With Dr Laura Chappell, Dr Robyn Muir & my Caroline project 🧳 One of our ESRC Festival of Social Sciences (and IAA) events festivalofsocialscience.com/events/erasu...
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 15/10/2023
🗳️V-Dem has posted a graph on Poland, according to their 2023 report Poland is currently a case of ‘engulfed autocratization’, in a democratic decay that’s started since 2015. Turnout, however, has increased, it was 50.92 in 2015 and 61.74 in 2019, with internal forces pushing against autocratization
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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 24/09/2023
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