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Paris +10: Experts take stock of the impact and role of the Paris Agreement

16 December 2025
Canada’s move to join Eurovision is a savvy nation-building tactic

27 November 2025
As the Paris climate agreement turns ten, it’s showing its age

13 November 2025
‘The Great Reset’: a far-right manifesto on the future of the EU

17 July 2025
Philippe Sands on 38 Londres Street

7 July 2025
Mapping the City: What London means to us

1 July 2025
AI Challenges, Regenerative Development, and Foresight: Drawing Insights

17 June 2025
Europe’s Gas Roller Coaster

16 May 2025
Even a capped, time-limited youth visa scheme would be of value to young people in the UK and EU

15 May 2025
The German Geoeconomic Conundrum

12 May 2025
‘I am European, but what are you?’

8 May 2025
If fascism came to power, how similar would our reaction be to those in Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros”?

30 April 2025
Trump II and Sino-Europe Rapprochement: Multipolar or Multilateral Partners?

9 April 2025
Unplug and Push Off: View from the Baltics

1 April 2025
Trump Tariffs: Implications for the U.K. and E.U.

28 March 2025
EU–UK Relations: Missing the moment in European Security?

26 March 2025
Ukraine: Ordinary people’s views in a geopolitical battle

24 March 2025
Redefining European Integration: The Impact of Hungary’s Vetoes on EU Governance

20 March 2025
A shared destiny: why Merz and Starmer will come to depend on European cooperation over Trumpian disruption

17 March 2025
Inside the Grand Halls: Reflections on the Model NATO 2025 event

11 March 2025
Europe Ramps up its Response to Trump’s Crashing of the Transatlantic Alliance

21 February 2025
The Security of European Values

19 February 2025
What is Navalny’s legacy for Russia?

17 February 2025
What happened in the German parliament and why is the far right hailing it as a ‘historic’ moment?

1 February 2025
GEORGIA CALLING! EUROPE, ARE YOU LISTENING?

19 January 2025
Exploring the Colonial Legacies of Labour Law: An Interview with Diamond Ashiagbor, Professor of Law at the University of Kent

16 January 2025
UK-EU Security Cooperation after Ukraine and Trump

10 December 2024
In Conversation with Federico Bianchi: Head of Press & Public Diplomacy, Delegation of the EU to the UK

9 December 2024
Time to Stop Rolling Dice: Why Bigger is Better in Climate Investments

20 November 2024
Europe’s Justified Concerns About a Second Trump Presidency

14 November 2024
The EU and UK in a Trump 2.0 World

12 November 2024
Paddington gets a British passport – but the Home Office treats real refugees very differently

8 November 2024
Memo to the commissioner responsible for environment policy

7 November 2024
US Elections: The Battle Over Ukraine Support

2 November 2024
Growing number of war-weary Ukrainians would reluctantly give up territory to save lives, suggests recent survey

1 October 2024
In the Green Room: Volunteering at the 2024 European Writers’ Festival

23 September 2024
How energy markets are currently stacked against clean energy

25 July 2024
An open Letter to Keir Starmer: Ten Suggestions on How to Foster Better Relations with Europe

8 July 2024
After the general election, France in a political conundrum

8 July 2024
Deconstructing the Drama: France and the EU Elections

13 June 2024
From Strasbourg to Luxembourg?

6 June 2024
In Conversation with Typhaine Morillon: Press and Public Relations Officer, European Parliament Liaison Office UK

26 April 2024
In Conversation with Tony Barber: Predictions for the European Elections, Trump II and Your Future as a Young Journalist

23 April 2024
Party Politics in Flux: We Need to Talk about Party People

22 April 2024
Trends in Governance and Policies 2015-2023 vis-a-vis Protection Seekers: A Comparative Analysis of Eight European Countries

15 March 2024
Reflections on the EPP Trip to Brussels

5 March 2024
Alexei Navalny’s most powerful legacy is urging Russians to imagine their country without Putin

4 March 2024
In Conversation with François Hollande

22 February 2024
The Nazi Connection: Elite-School Exchanges Between the Third Reich, Britain and America

22 January 2024
It’s always the quiet ones: Euroscepticism in Lithuania

13 October 2023