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The EU’s new carbon tax is reshaping global trade – and starting to influence what people buy and how much they pay for it.
During a recent visit to China, French President Emmanuel Macron was given the diplomatic works.
The US is wrong to try to impose its worldview on Europe – but it has been able to do so because European leaders don’t have a strategy of their own.
Some 1 million Syrians were welcomed in Germany after fleeing civil war. They are increasingly unwelcome in a country where politics have swung sharply right.
The Trump administration is highly critical of Europe in its national security strategy, while barely mentioning the threats posed by rival great powers.
Whichever outcome emerges from the Ukraine peace negotiations, it appears no position rooted in the defence of international law will prevail.
Europe needs these minerals for manufacturing, and China controls the vast majority of supply.
In a war that’s lasted almost four years, a former diplomat says it’s not realistic to say, ‘In the next week, come up with a very complicated peace deal, sign off on it and it’s going to stick.’
Women were often jailed for their association with anti-Franco male relatives. Behind bars, they suffered mental and physical torture.
Russians and westerners have marched into a separation deeper than the cold war.
More than 100,000 people were killed in the Bosnian war. But the peace that ended it in 1995 sowed the seeds for ethnonationalism.
Obesity needs specialised medical care, not personal judgement. Italy has enshrined this in law.
Demographic shifts are predictable, but pension reforms fail when politics triumphs over economics.
Daily life for people living in Europe is already becoming unpredictable due to the consequences of extreme weather.
A study titled “Defending and promoting academic freedom” that was conducted for a French higher education and research organisation discusses four areas for improvement of this crucial effort.
The International Energy Agency expects global renewable energy capacity to double by 2030, even with lower growth in the US, but fossil fuels still dominate.
Moscow’s provocations may seem rash and incoherent, but they’re all part of a conscious, focused strategy.
The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.
Being honest about US influence during Donald Trump’s second term could help Europe resist it.
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Reader in Politics, Co-Director, Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University
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Assistant Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, University College Dublin
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Reader in European Politics, University of Westminster
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Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Bath
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York
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Professor of Politics & International Studies, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Directeur d'ESPOL, Professeur de Science Politique, Institut catholique de Lille (ICL)
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Professor of European Politics, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in European Studies, Lund University