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

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

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

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 ...

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. ...

EU and national policy-makers argue that the single services market is a key to EU growth, but that many barriers to services market access remain. Grasping the scope, nature and economic meaning of ...

Different economic and financial structures require different crisis responses. Different crises also require different tools and resources. The first ‘stage’ of the financial crisis (2007 ...

The crisis in the eurozone– which became worse in Europe at the same time that the Lisbon Treaty entered in force at the end of 2009 – has presented the first test of the crisis management ...

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 ...