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UK political parties and the availability of membership rights

July 9, 2026

🎈 Candidate selection and the limits of local representation

July 3, 2026

British leaders must stop resurrecting Hitler

July 3, 2026

Britain’s triple squeeze: Labour, gilts and the Europe question

June 29, 2026

🧭 From enlargement to belonging: redefining EU membership

June 18, 2026
June 11, 2026

What the archives tell us about Europe’s geopolitical origins

Katerina Klimoska Drawing on her research at the Historical Archives of the European Union, Katerina Klimoska argues that Europe’s current geopolitical awakening is less a departure from the past than a rediscovery of ideas embedded in European integration from its earliest postwar years Read more
June 5, 2026

Europe 2.0: a new political economy for the age of Trump and China

Dennis Shen For decades, Europe prospered under American security guarantees, open trade and cheap external imports. That world is disappearing. Faced with a more antagonistic United States, a rising China and global geopolitical competition, Dennis Shen says the EU must either become a strategic power in its own right – or risk longer-term decline Read more
May 29, 2026

🧭 The EU’s Turkish dilemma and enlargement

Murat Aktaş Ursula von der Leyen’s move to group Türkiye with Russia and China jeopardises the EU’s new security architecture. Murat Aktaş warns that treating an official EU candidate and ally as an 'excluded partner' is a strategic miscalculation. This deepening crack between rhetoric and reality creates an ontological crisis, threatening the credibility of the enlargement policy Read more
May 27, 2026

☢️ France is gambling with Europe’s credibility 

Robin Gilman France claims that a 'safer’ Europe is the goal of its new nuclear policy. Yet Robin Gilman argues that undermining the nonproliferation treaty is eroding the EU’s credibility and safety, leaving it at a crossroads. It can either remain a reliable partner – or fuel the collapse of the rules-based order Read more
May 26, 2026

🎈 The European Democracy Shield: defending what?

Omran Shroufi We commonly hear EU leaders talk about the need to ‘defend democracy’. Yet, as Omran Shroufi shows, their discourse is often more about identifying and naming geopolitical threats than it is about tackling pervasive, home-grown structural problems of democratic disconnect and disillusionment Read more

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