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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 […]

As a social-anthropologist researching perceptions of remoteness in rural Romania, the object of my research concerns remote villages which have been described as places where people still live like a hundred years ago. They can certainly give that impression as I have also experienced in some of my early encounters. In the following, I want […]

I presented at the Latin American Studies Association congress in Paris in May on a panel titled “Mexico in Global Competition.” LASA is the largest scholarly association in the world for the study of Latin America, with over 13,000 members and an annual congress running to several hundred sessions across disciplines working on the region. […]

Introduction “One can say without exaggeration that Europe invented a ‘convergence machine’, taking in poor countries and helping them become high-income economies.” This was the famous assessment of Indermit Gill, Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank, in 2012. Now, more than a decade later, this ‘convergence machine’ has delivered meaningful […]

Blog article adapted from University of Oxford MPhil thesis ‘Imagined Inclusion? Language, Identity, and the Limits of Inclusivity in the Pridnestrovian Nation’ and conference paper by the same name, presented at UACES Graduate Forum Research Conference at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca on 4 June 2026. The thesis assesses how Ukrainian and Romanian are differentially included within […]

The development of green hydrogen production technologies has become increasingly significant within the context of global decarbonisation and the ongoing digital transformation of the economy. The use of renewable energy sources for hydrogen generation significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions. It also enhances energy security by decreasing dependence on fossil fuels. Moreover, green hydrogen contributes to […]

I am very pleased to acknowledge the generous support provided by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) through its “Microgrant Scheme”, which enabled me to undertake a research visit to Brussels in June 2026 in support of my forthcoming book, “The Making of a Strategy: The European Union and Maritime Security, 2000-2025”. The award […]

Context is a critical component of business and management research, shaping organisational behaviour and influencing outcomes. In management literature, it is widely acknowledged that “context counts” and “context matters”. Yet it is often present only implicitly, as a backdrop – an afterthought or a control variable – limiting the development of context-sensitive theories and marginalising […]