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Dear Colleagues, As I reflect on my first full year as Chair, I am so proud of the work we have done and especially for the warm support I continue to enjoy. This supportive spirit was very much on display at our last annual conference in Liverpool, hosted by Liverpool John Moores University. The programme, […]

By Francesco Duina (Bates College, USA) For decades, the EU has projected its internal legal frameworks onto the world. It has done so indirectly through the Brussels Effect, whereby countries and trading blocs in other parts of the world pre-emptively adopt EU internal standards in order to facilitate trade with the EU. And it has […]

By Sebastian Heidebrecht (Centre for European Integration Research, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna) On 30 October 2025, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the next preparatory phase and its readiness to introduce a digital euro in 2029. Unlike private forms of electronic money created by private banks, the digital euro will be a […]

Alina Felder-Stindt The European Union’s ambition to become a knowledge-based economy has transformed the role of higher education institutions (HEIs). My new book, The Territorial Dimension of EU Knowledge Policies: Higher Education Institutions for Europe (Routledge, 2025), explores how universities are not only shaped by European integration but also actively shape it, particularly through their […]

For years the pro EU side has been fragmented. Different groups protected their own branding, their own messages, their own direction. But no single organisation can deliver Rejoin. Not the European Movement, not any party, not any individual campaigner.

By Nicola Nones (Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto) and Melle Scholten (Department of Public Administration at the University of Twente) The Eurozone crisis and the subsequent implementation of austerity measures in various member states of the union was in many ways a watershed moment for contemporary populism. […]

The antidote to lies is the truth. Britain left the EU because the public were systematically misled. Many now recognise this, but millions still do not. When the truth becomes widely understood, the UK can reset its view of the EU. A fresh start. A chance to see Europe not through myths, but through facts.

Introduction In her State of the Union address in 2021, EU Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, stated that ‘we have started to develop a European defence ecosystem’ (von der Leyen 2021). Beyond a mere mention within her speech, the concept was never elaborated on from a policymaking point of view. In essence, while this […]

Author: Philip Ryan recently defended his PhD – Bureaucracy Mapping: Inclusive Design for Institutional Navigation – at University College Dublin. His research interests include inclusive design, bureaucracy, sociology, technology, user experience, trust, privacy, and migration. Regulating technology can be difficult, and the current explosion of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has left even the companies producing […]