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Why the EU’s migrant 'return hubs' are doomed to fail

May 5, 2025

🧭 Why the 'eternal waiting room' is a risky strategy for EU enlargement

April 28, 2025

Rising waters, fading lessons: how Spain bungled another crisis

April 25, 2025

What do the Polish and Hungarian EU presidencies reveal about the competencies of this office?

April 24, 2025

Slovakia and the future of Europe

April 22, 2025
April 22, 2025

🧭 Differentiated membership, strategic necessity, and the risk to ever-closer union  

Stefan Telle Differentiated membership may offer a pragmatic path to EU enlargement, but it risks undermining unity in a multipolar world. Stefan Telle argues that without investment in centre-formation and shared political identity, the EU could drift into transactionalism, weakening its global voice and eroding the ideal of an ever-closer union Differentiated membership is gaining traction as […] Read more
April 17, 2025

The Freedom Party of Austria and the legacy of 'völkisch' nationalism

Ivo Kesler In its 2024 election manifesto, the far-right Austrian Freedom Party sets out its plan to curb migration and naturalisations. Ivo Kesler argues that the party is also advocating for a two-tiered völkisch – ethnic – nationalist conception of citizenship Read more
April 10, 2025

🧭 Russia’s hybrid warfare on EU enlargement

Denis Cenusa Russia’s hybrid tactics — emboldening sovereigntist populism, spreading disinformation, and weaponising economic hardship — threaten EU enlargement. Countermeasures, argues Denis Cenusa, are thus essential to protecting the enlargement process and the Union’s strategic resilience Read more
April 7, 2025

Balancing EU chemical policies: pollution control and competitiveness

Henry Hempel Chemical pollution is rising, and the global market share of European chemical industries is in decline. What can the EU do about it? Henry Hempel examines how the European Commission's proposed revisions to EU chemicals regulation could combine economic incentives with chemical simplification Read more
March 26, 2025

🧭 EU enlargement: why citizens matter in shaping the debate

Giselle Bosse EU enlargement can benefit democracy and the rule of law, but the process often excludes citizens from decision-making and cost-benefit framing. For Giselle Bosse, this raises questions about legitimacy — and whether the process truly reflects the priorities of member states and candidate countries Read more

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