Jun 2, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Stefano Riela The Commission is expected to unveil its proposal in a few weeks’ time, but some exporting countries of carbon-intensive products have already expressed their disappointment at a new form of European protectionism. In hands off sovereignty, each...
Jul 28, 2020 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Stefano Riela Has the COVID-19 crisis pushed solidarity in the European Union? Stefano Riela explores. It was one of the longest European Council meetings. From Friday 17 July to Tuesday 21 July, five days and four nights in Brussels during which the 27 EU heads of...
May 21, 2020 | Business & Economics
By Stefano Riela The lockdown, introduced at the beginning of March to contain the spread of Covid-19, has been an economic nightmare for the country. In the last weeks Venice has been unusually quiet even in its canals, now revealing a multichromatic sea life. That...
Apr 6, 2020 | Business & Economics
By Stefano Riela Stefano Riela looks at whether Covid-19 will change access to essential goods globally. For years, globalisation made it possible to geographically distribute economic activities. In ‘normal’ times, when the fluidity of trade is...
Dec 12, 2019 | Politics & Society
The United Kingdom goes to the polls on December 12, with Brexit one of the main issues for voters. How will the country vote? Will Brexit finally happen? What will UK foreign policy look like moving forward? Justin Wong speaks with Richard Whitman about the...
Aug 27, 2019 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
On June 23, 2016, British voters chose to leave the European Union. Over the last three years, the UK has attempted to negotiate their withdrawal from the EU but to very little progress. Prime Minister Theresa May resigned from office in June as a result of these...
Jun 18, 2019 | Politics & Society
By Niklas Bolin, Kajsa Falasca, Marie Grusell, Lars Nord In the wake of the European Elections in May 2019, seventy leading academics from across the European Union contributed their reflections, thoughts, and analysis to Euroflections – a free downloadable report...
Nov 21, 2018 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
A draft agreement on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union has been reached between representatives of both sides, alongside an Outline Political Declaration on a future relationship. It remains to be seen whether the British government is able to survive, and...
Nov 15, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Andrew Glencross Brexit is closing in, but how did we get here, and what will happen next? Finally, 595 days after Theresa May informed the EU of the UK’s intention to leave, there is light at the end of the tunnel. The “tunnel”, in this case, is Brussels-speak for...
Jul 17, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Jeffrey Stacey With the Brexit fallout continuing and Donald Trump’s global posturing sending mixed messages, can we survive a potential collapse of the international order? For the first year of the Trump Administration, the Washington D.C.- based denizens...