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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 […]

April 14, 2025

How urban policies on migration governance are helping to defend democracy

Gülşen Doğan

Amid rising authoritarian populism, how do cities deal with migrants? Gülşen Doğan highlights how cities' innovative migration policies are helping to promote democratic resilience and multi-level cooperation in the face of global challenges. Cities, she argues, are key actors in the defence of democracy and social inclusion

April 8, 2025

Gulf of America: rewriting the rules of public discourse

Christoph Deppe

Scientific investigation into how disinformation affects democracy has never been more important. But autocrats and populists discredit such research, along with any journalism that challenges their worldview. Christoph Deppe describes how, under Trump’s second administration, changing the rules of communication is manipulating public discourse

April 3, 2025

Seeing is believing: how protest visuals are rewriting Romania’s future

Mimi Mihăilescu

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but protest visuals, especially during political upheaval, read like novels. Mimi Mihăilescu shows how visuals aren't just for documentation – they persuade, polarise, and shape public opinion. In Romania, where two protest factions are currently clashing, visuals are on the frontline of political warfare

April 1, 2025

🌊 Radical movements' social media strategies go local

Thomas Evans

Social media platforms allow radical political actors to communicate with, and organise at, the sub-national level, enabling engagement beyond existing activist cohorts. Exploring local strategies of dissident Irish republicans and the far right in the UK and Ireland, Thomas Evans analyses this phenomenon

March 20, 2025

Europe and changing transatlantic relations

Stella Ladi

Relations between the EU and US are undergoing tumultuous change. Based on what we know from previous existential crises, the EU will coordinate its response to changing transatlantic relations using informal mechanisms and a pragmatic approach. Stella Ladi argues the EU must now develop a strategy for navigating this unfamiliar environment

March 17, 2025

🧭 EU enlargement and the critical role played by the European Council

Lucas Schramm

Rising geopolitical pressures, including an ongoing war in its immediate neighbourhood, have thrust EU enlargement back onto the agenda. Lucas Schramm contends that the European Council must reconcile the dual challenges of widening and deepening, as it has done historically. Despite formidable obstacles, enlargement could spur internal reforms and innovations

March 6, 2025

🌈 Lies, damned lies, and the far right

Iris B. Segers

Far-right politicians around the world have mastered the art of epistemic warfare, posing a serious threat to academic freedom. Iris B. Segers reflects on the challenges of feminist resistance to a bizarre political reality rife with lies

February 27, 2025

Can the EU form an autonomous military alliance?

Morgiane Noel

To resist ongoing Russian aggression in Ukraine, the EU must present a united military front. But different member states have different security priorities, and this is proving a challenge. Morgiane Noel argues that to achieve autonomous military alliance, the EU must navigate internal divisions, address external threats, and redefine its global role

February 26, 2025

Mind the gap: how a lack of regular oversight is fuelling the crisis in Welsh local democracy

Rachel Gibson

Recent experience of Welsh local democracy reveals a troubling lack of oversight of Community Councils, the 'closest tier of government to the people'. Echoing calls for radical reform of the sector, Rachel Gibson identifies the fundamental paradox of power at the heart of the problem

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

How urban policies on migration governance are helping to defend democracy

Gulf of America: rewriting the rules of public discourse

Seeing is believing: how protest visuals are rewriting Romania’s future

🌊 Radical movements' social media strategies go local

Europe and changing transatlantic relations

🧭 EU enlargement and the critical role played by the European Council

🌈 Lies, damned lies, and the far right

Can the EU form an autonomous military alliance?

Mind the gap: how a lack of regular oversight is fuelling the crisis in Welsh local democracy

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