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Author: Jaydon Souter is a PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Fellow in Law at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. His research lies principally in the fields of EU public health law, consumer protection, digital law, and internal market law. His thesis focuses on the regulation of the digital marketing of […]

In May 1948 Winston Churchill declared at the launch of the Congress of Europe: “We cannot aim at anything less than the union of Europe as a whole.” Churchill’s dream has nearly come true. Today, almost every European country is either in the EU or has applied to join. The outsiders? Russia, Belarus, and Britain.

Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, kept a secret diary of the talks. Published in 2021, it revealed in painful detail why Britain lost so badly at the negotiating table. Jonathan Powell, former Downing Street chief of staff, summed it up. Britain was left with: “a flawed withdrawal agreement and a deeply disadvantageous future […]

Towards the 2025 EU–CELAC Summit: Academics and diplomats debate the future of the bi-regional partnership[1] On 9–10 November 2025, the 4th European Union (EU)–Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Summit is taking place in Santa Marta, Colombia, bringing together European, Latin American and Caribbean Heads of State and Goverment to  strengthen bi-regional relations. […]

An article, published on 8 September 2025 in the Kyiv Independent, brandished the headline: ‘Russia’s gains speed up in Ukraine ahead of high-stakes autumn’. Relying on open-source data, the analysis showed how the average pace of Russia’s advances in Ukraine in 2025 far outweigh those in 2024. Indicatively, Russia captured 363 km2 of Ukrainian territory […]

This publication builds on the paper “Sustainable Finance at an Inflection Point: The EU Taxonomy and its Impact” presented at the “EU Law and Policymaking” panel of the UACES Graduate Forum Research Conference, held at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece (29–30 May 2025). The support of UACES in organising and facilitating […]

This post is based on the paper entitled “Explaining the Conflict Dynamics of EU-China Climate Relations: A Case of Collective Securitisation”, presented at the UACES 2025 Graduate Forum Research Conference on May 29 in Athens, Greece. The original paper focuses on the increasing tension between China and the EU in the climate domain and provides […]

Blog article adapted from ‘Shadows of a Nation: History, Identity, and the Transnistrian Question’ working paper presented at the UACES Graduate Forum Research Conference at the Panteion University, Athens on 30 May 2025. Will Kingston-Cox is a political researcher and postgraduate in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford, specialising in Moldova, […]

The 2025 edition the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, 26-29 August. These were four intense days of thousands of participants exploring most pressing political issues of our times over a range of featured roundtables and hundreds of panels. The conference section of the ECPR […]

By Mari Carlson (University of Helsinki) The European Green Deal marked a bold attempt to confront the environmental crisis – not merely through environmental policy, but across the full spectrum of internal and external governance. Trade policy, in particular, underwent an unprecedented wave of greening. Yet before the ink had dried, the Covid-19 pandemic and […]