In December of 2013 Alexei Pushkov, chairman of the Russian foreign affairs committee, warned Ukrainian protesters about an expansion of “gay culture”, which he then described as “the official policy of the EU.” It is with this ominous quote that Phillip M Ayoub and David Paternotte start their new book, LGBT activism and the making of Europe: a rainbow Europe.

Over the course of 2011 and 2012, Athens became the flaming jewel in the crown of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. A climate of punitive austerity measures and near daily rioting bought the systematically dysfunctional nature of Greek politics to the world’s attention. How could democratically accountable leaders fail to address the country’s unsustainable finances year after year and decade after decade until it was all too late?

Professor Stéphan Van Damme has published A toutes voiles vers la vérité : une autre histoire de la philosophie au temps des Lumières, the third volume of his trilogy re-addressing the cultural history of philosophy.

A selection of books recently published by EUI academics