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Held as part of the 2026 UACES Doctoral Training Academy, the Small-Group Networking Session provided PhD students and Early Career Researchers with an opportunity to engage directly with experienced researchers and professionals working across different areas of academic and professional life. The session was designed to complement the broader professional development programme by creating a […]

Three Vietnamese policy documents, issued between 2019 and 2024, changed how I understood the new EU-Vietnam partnership. Resolution 52-NQ/TW, issued by the Politburo in 2019, set a target for the digital economy to reach approximately 30 percent of GDP by 2030. In 2021, the National Green Growth Strategy, approved by Prime Ministerial Decision 1658/QĐ-TTg, set […]

I was fortunate to receive the UACES Microgrant, which provided additional support to attend the UACES 56th Annual Conference in Prague, hosted by Charles University. During the conference, I presented a paper titled Green Defence: Deconstructing NATO and EU Green Defence Policies in A Changing Climate, as part of the ‘Thinking about Resilience and Responsibility’ […]

Hello, this is Valeria, although most people call me Vale, and I am the UACES Graduate Forum Communications Officer. Welcome to our Graduate Forum blog series on the 2026 UACES Annual Conference. This first post is about my overall experience at the conference, but stay tuned: next, we’ll talk about publishing! This series was made […]

The UACES Annual 56th Conference, which this year took place in Prague, addressed the theme of reimagining Europe, covering a wide range of subjects from security, border and migration studies to digitalisation, the green agenda and Space policy. Notable attention was dedicated to critical and epistemologically challenging perspectives about meta-narratives of European studies, core-periphery relations […]

The European Union increasingly speaks of strategic autonomy as a central objective for navigating a world characterized by geopolitical rivalry, technological dependence, and growing uncertainty. Although the concept initially gained prominence in security and foreign policy debates, it has increasingly extended into economic, technological and digital policy. In particular, the EU has linked strategic autonomy […]

It is wonderful to be back at UACES. I first attended the conference last year, and the discussions there gave me many valuable insights for developing my research. Over the past year, I have revisited my arguments, refined my framework, and incorporated some of those insights into my analysis. Returning to UACES 2026, therefore, felt […]

Prolonged emergencies pose a problem for European law that becomes increasingly visible over time. A state may have compelling reasons for maintaining an emergency regime, but it does not follow that every restriction on rights introduced within that regime remains necessary in the same scope, as applied to the same persons, and under present circumstances. […]

The Check on the Check: What the Limits of Article 265 TFEU Reveal about Horizontal Accountability within the EU While all European Union (EU) institutions have, to some extent, the obligation to ensure compliance with the Treaties’ values and norms, it is the European Commission that bears responsibility for overseeing and securing compliance as the […]

On 9 December 2022, Europe was shaken by images of cash-filled suitcases and the arrests of European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili and former MEP Antonio Panzeri. Quickly dubbed “Qatargate,” the operation exposed a cash-for-influence scheme, in which the governments of Qatar and Morocco allegedly bribed European co-legislators to promote their interests within the European Parliament […]