The optics of this week’s planned Alaska meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are ...

In person event Since November 2024, Serbia has experienced an impressive wave of anti-government protests. Driven by students and citizens doubling down on their demands while leaving their EU flags ...

In person event Caught between an aggressive Russia and a disengaging US, Europe is ramping up its defence spending. By working through the EU institutions, Member States aim to harmonise standards fo ...

In Person symposium The EU’s effectiveness in the Indo-Pacific relies on accurate contemporary knowledge of the states in the region. To address this need for knowledge, the National Centre for Resear ...

The EU is developing a border management strategy aiming at an “integrated and global response” to the challenges posed by the phenomenon of irregular immigration through the common external borders. ...

The European Union has successfully supported democratisation in its new Eastern member states and candidate countries. Now it needs to become more engaged in those post-communist countries where ...

CHALLENGE Research Paper No. 11 / 23 pages This paper assesses the implications of the European Commission Communications on the evaluation and future development of FRONTEX (European Agency for the ...

CHALLENGE Research Paper No. 12 / 27 pages The relation between liberty and security has been highly contestable over the past 10 years in the EU integration process. With the expansion of the EU’s ...

The Barcelona process so far has been a valuable systemic/institutional advance in Euro-Med relations and a confidence-building measure on a large scale.

Regulation has for a long time been considered mainly as an obstacle to innovation, especially with respect to rules that create so-called “red tape”, or administrative burdens. But academics have ...