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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 […]

The warning was clear over a decade ago, but Britain failed to listen.

The first time Europe had free movement of people, a single market, and a single currency was under the Roman Empire. The Itiner-E project, created with Google’s support, has digitally recreated the enormous 186,000-mile road network that once connected Rome’s dominion from Britain to the Balkans. People, goods, and ideas travelled freely across a continent ruled […]

It was 85 years ago, on 31 October 1940, that Britain finally crushed the relentless Nazi air assault on our country that had lasted for over three gruelling months. Without brave Polish pilots it’s unlikely that the Battle of Britain would have resulted in the first major defeat against Hitler.

My poster in October 2024 said the black hole in Britain’s finances was Brexit. Now the Chancellor agrees: Brexit is the cause of many of Britain’s economic problems.

Britain depends on migrants – yet our leaders and some newspapers still scapegoat them for the nation’s ills. The truth is the very opposite: without migrants, Britain would struggle to survive, let alone thrive. Ten years ago, in October 2015, I gave a speech about how UK newspapers were publishing shocking lies about migrants and […]

By Thomas Conzelmann and Sophie Vanhoonacker (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) Trade and foreign investment have become politicized in the current international system. The unilateral imposition of tariffs across the global economy by the second Trump administration is a good illustration: tariffs are not used to address unfair trade practices but as an instrument to exert […]

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.