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Lessons from Sahel Niger for EU crisis management

December 24, 2025

🧭 Why enlargement is EU geopolitics 

December 5, 2025

The failure of social housing in the UK and the abandonment of the the poor

November 28, 2025

🧭 The negative consequences of rule transfer in EU enlargement

November 20, 2025

National parties' strategies for mobilising expat voters

November 18, 2025
November 14, 2025

🧭 The geopolitical turn in enlargement discourse

Tom Hunter Tom Hunter, Natasha Wunsch and Marie-Eve Bélanger argue that Russia’s war has exposed the double-edged nature of European discourse. The EU has long sustained itself through words; now language has become strategy, shaping what is politically possible. For the EU to endure, this rhetorical power must become institutional commitment Read more
November 5, 2025

The EU’s AI gamble with healthcare

Jason Tucker The promise of revolutionary advances in healthcare is not a mainstay of the EU’s artificial intelligence policies. Jason Tucker explores how the outcomes of the EU’s instrumentalisation of healthcare in the AI race doesn't look good for the waning political legitimacy of the EU Read more
November 4, 2025

Tackling gender-based violence in European universities — through intersectionality

Marcela Linková Intersectionality is already shaping Europe’s fight against gender-based violence in research and higher education. Using evidence from the UniSAFE project, new EU policy frameworks, and the next generation of gender equality plans, Marcela Linkova and Lut Mergaert reveal the impact of intersectional initiatives Read more
October 15, 2025

🧭 Framing wartime enlargement: still a process, after all 

Nicole Scicluna Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has transformed how often EU leaders talk about enlargement, but not how they frame it. Nicole Scicluna shows that despite geopolitical urgency and family rhetoric, enlargement remains overwhelmingly cast as a conditional, merit-based process Read more
October 10, 2025

Is the 'Remigration and Reconquest' committee a turning point for Italy's extreme right? 

Federico Taddei On 6 September 2025, the Italian extreme right sealed a new pact. At a national congress, CasaPound Italia, Patriots’ Network (a Forza Nuova splinter), Veneto Skinhead Front, and Brescia to Bresciani launched the committee they call Remigration and Reconquest. Federico Taddei argues its launch could mark a turning point in Italy’s extreme-right galaxy  Read more

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