After months of uncertainty and escalating rhetoric, a new EU-US trade deal has finally been announced. Under the deal, a 15% ...

Not all countries are able (or willing) to take sides in the increasingly tense US-China rivalry and this might create new ...

Europe is facing a defining moment in its approach to science, research and innovation. As geopolitical tensions mount and ...

Georgia and Serbia, both candidate countries for EU membership, have seen large waves of civic mobilisation in recent months.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has resulted in colossal human loss. According to the World Bank, this has already in 2023 amounted to 26 000 civilian casualties, the displacement of around ...

Launched in January 2009, ANCIEN is a research project that runs for a 44-month period and involves 20 partners from EU member states. The project principally concerns the future of long-term care ...

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 ...

Migratory pressure from abroad and populist trends in Europe have already put considerable stress on borderless Europe, despite the open borders being one of its most precious achievements. But what ...

This paper presents a methodology for calculating the potential impact of the new socio-ecological transition away from fossil fuels on employment in EU energy supply. The methodology is based on ...

Technological revolutions bring opportunities, but sometimes even greater threats. This ‘paradox of progress’ affects cyberspace and threatens the very principle and foundation of the open internet.

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 ...