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🧭 EU enlargement: process first, outcome second

January 21, 2025

🧭 The EU needs enlargement, but it may not get there

January 13, 2025

The West’s strategic mistake in disengaging from Georgia

January 9, 2025

Georgia’s Second Rose Revolution

January 9, 2025

🧭 'Differentiated membership' would overcome the EU’s enlargement dilemma

January 3, 2025
December 20, 2024

🧭 Why EU enlargement is a strategic necessity

Veronica Anghel Launching her series on EU enlargement dilemmas, Veronica Anghel argues that enlargement is no gamble, but a strategic necessity. In crisis, enlargement transforms external risks into shared responsibilities, reinforcing governance, security, and global influence — and ensuring the Union’s survival and relevance Read more
December 12, 2024

Curating the past: how East and West remember differently

Andreea Tănasie Memory is a buzzword in many political and cultural debates, for building a shared identity to legitimising right-wing populism. Andreea Tănasie explores the institutionalisation of memory through museums across Europe, revealing how curatorial choices hide broader dynamics of legitimacy and exclusion Read more
November 26, 2024

The gender gap in campaign financing: an uphill struggle

Laura Sudulich Women are not a demographic minority, but they are certainly still a minority in politics. Laura Sudulich, Siim Trumm, and Iakovos Makropoulos show that a significant gender resource gap continues to be a feature of contemporary parliamentary campaigns. Women face an uphill battle to get elected Read more
November 13, 2024

How the Grenfell fire in the UK exposed 'racial capitalism'

Sam Glasper The public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster revealed the contempt of multinational corporations, and how the British state neglected the people it was meant to protect. However, argues Sam Glasper, the inquiry’s final report fails to reveal the extent to which 'racial capitalism' affects the lives of Britain's most vulnerable people. Read more
November 11, 2024

Climate change denialism and the crisis of the centre in Spain

Camil Ungureanu We often link denialism and opposition to environmental issues to far-right parties, yet this is an oversimplification. Camil Ungureanu, Marc Sanjaume-Calvet and Balsa Lubarda argue that some centre-right parties, by downplaying ecological concerns and framing ecology as 'the new communism', paved the way for far-right climate denialism. Read more

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