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Myroslava Hladchenko Global university rankings have got prominence in recent decades. Nation-states develop evaluation policies drawing on the assessment criteria of world rankings aiming their universities to take higher positions in these rankings (Salmi & Saroyan, 2007). QS Rankings is one of them. It is a profitable business that generated €46 m in revenue in […]

by Dr Caroline Emberson (Nottingham University Business School and the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab) New research, recently published in JCMS, examines the detection of labour exploitation within domestic care services. In the article, I identify a range of municipal activities including whistleblowing procedures; care-worker professionalisation; the expansion of employee’s roles and inter-agency data analysis. […]

by Dr Nicole Scicluna (Hong Kong Baptist University) As we pass the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU continues to deal with the many challenges to which the conflict has given rise. An overarching challenge is that of maintaining unity of purpose and of action – a task that becomes more […]

EUHealthGov held its fifth Practitioner Perspective on 13 March 2025. We were delighted to host Sebastiano Lustig, Policy Coordinator for prevention, preparedness and response planning for medical countermeasures at the European Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority (HERA). What follows is a summary of some of the key points addressed in the presentation. A recording […]

Sixty-eight years ago, on 25 March 1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed by six European countries – France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It marked the birth of the European Economic Community, later known as the European Union. This ambitious new community emerged from the ruins of the Second World War, […]

The UK is grappling with its worst medicine shortage in four years, and the evidence points squarely at Brexit as a central cause.

The recent plan by President Ursula von der Leyen of a €150 billion European joint debt to fund the purchase of arms under the name ReArm Europe has sent shockwaves across the continent and beyond. The press announcement, made on March 4th, followed the infamous Oval Office meeting between US President Trump and Ukrainian President […]

by Max Koch (Lund University) The European Union is close to my heart. Without European integration I could not have worked and lived in three member states – Germany, Northern Ireland (at the time a member) and Sweden – which turned out to be an irreplaceable part of my development as a scholar and human […]

Every year on 8 March, International Women’s Day celebrates the economic, cultural, political, and social achievements of women while also recognising the ongoing fight for gender equality. And 100 years is about how long it took for women in the United Kingdom to win the right to vote.

The grotesque spectacle of President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance bullying and ambushing Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Friday, 28 February, has shocked Europe. In response, European leaders have adopted a firmer stance in support of Ukraine. From adversity, unity can emerge.