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Kirsty Warner | 21 January 2025  From the 7th to the 9th of October, I had the opportunity to visit the European House of History in Brussels, a trip that marked a significant step in gathering material for my chapter, Museums and the Evolution of European (Union) Identity Construction (1970–2024), part of the upcoming book […]

As both a researcher and a policymaker, I am often confronted with the challenge of bridging the gap between these two worlds. While academia and policy serve different purposes, they are intricately connected and have much to offer one another. The UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies) Doctoral Training Academy (DTA) in Prague gave […]

Our political leaders in the UK often point to the 17.4 million people who voted for Leave on a single summer’s day – 23 June 2016 – as the enduring mandate for Brexit. But is that still a valid justification?

After the Holocaust of the Second World War, during which many millions were systematically, industrially, gruesomely murdered in the worst genocidal crime against humanity, the earnest, global, unison cry was: ‘Never again’

by Bogdan Căpraru (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași; National Institute for Economic Research, Romanian Academy), Anastasios Pappas (Hellenic Fiscal Council; Kapodistrian University of Athens), and Nicu Sprincean (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași; National Institute for Economic Research, Romanian Academy) To kick off 2025, the JCMS blog is highlighting some of the great work […]

Which way is the wind blowing for little Britain? Little? Yes. We are a tiny, isolated, island in a corner of the North Sea, now quite alone in the world, lost, and lonely.

On the first day of his new presidency, President Trump signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of ‘illegal’ immigrants. A Trump official said: “The federal government will not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the United States.”  The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, […]

Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, had a message for our Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer on his visit to Warsaw on Friday 17 January. He said: “I am aware this is a dream of mine, that instead of a Brexit we will have a Breturn.” Mr Tusk, who was previously a President of the […]

When Theresa May became Prime Minister in July 2016, she famously declared, “Brexit means Brexit”. It was pure gobbledygook. Brexit at that time didn’t mean anything – there was no consensus on what Brexit should entail, not among the electorate, politicians, or even Brexit campaigners themselves.

by Sarah Wolff (Leiden University), Helena Carrapico (Northumbria University), and Agathe Piquet (UC Louvain) To kick off 2025, the JCMS blog is highlighting some of the great work published in JCMS during autumn 2024. Here we feature the findings of ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind? UK-EU Member States Bilateralism as an Enabler of Europeanisation’, […]