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September 2023
September is always marked by a back-to-school buzz, the annual State of the Union address and… plenty of news on the agenda! This month we organised an event on European policy towards Northern Africa while we also published a report examining the expectations and fears of Europe’s middle classes concerning the EU’s key challenges.
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Bridge The Channel: UK-EU Relations & Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Climate Policy
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Video Op-Eds | Ep. 3 – Three Ways to Fix Young European’s Property Nightmare
In the third episode of ‘Video Op-Eds’, Eoin Drea explores how the lack of affordable housing is impacting young people in Europe and what can be done to address it.
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Migration Update September 2023
Welcome to the Migration Update September 2023. This curated news selection brings together many of the most important developments in the migration policy area over the last month, including recent ones tied to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The purpose of these news summaries is to provide a factual base for migration debates within the […]
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“A extrema-direita está a mudar dramaticamente a paisagem política na Europa”, reconhece antigo secretário-geral do Parlamento Europeu
Em entrevista ao Expresso, Klaus Welle mostra-se preocupado com o crescimento dos partidos da ultradireita a menos de nove meses das eleições europeias.
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Intellemo: Innovation and Empathy to Counter Political Apathy Among Young People
There is a general perception, especially among those of us over the age of 40, that younger generations are characterised by a pronounced political and social apathy. Indeed, many statistics support this notion of younger generations being less politically engaged. This is perhaps most reflected in their lower-than-average voter turnout in a number of countries. […]
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Navigating the Storm: Modern Western Culture and the Growing Mental Health Crisis
Western Europe, long regarded as a bastion of prosperity and progress, is facing an alarming rise in mental health crises, particularly among its youth. While numerous factors contribute to this disturbing trend, including the rise of social media and mobile phones, two key elements stand out: the economic and political volatility of the past two […]
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China Shies Away From Confrontation With EU Over EV Probe
China needs foreign capital and knowledge “for its own modernization program,” said Peter Hefele, policy director focused on China at the Wilfred Martens Centre for European Studies. “Next to the US, Europe is the only region to acquire those critical factors.”
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A Blueprint For Accelerated Integration and Phasing-In
Probably the most important attempt to revamp the EU’s enlargement policy in the last decade has been the adoption of the New Methodology for Accession Negotiations in 2020, which has been ambitiously envisaged as a robust framework for accelerated integration of the Western Balkans, which will provide more clarity and a stronger political steer of […]
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Political Groups in the European Parliament: their past, present and future contribution to the European integration
This event is part of the Martens Centre – Luigi Sturzo Institute joint series “Rethinking the EU – Dialogues on the Future of Europe”.
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A Reflection on the Politics of Yom Kippur
1973 was a fateful year. Inflation was high. Anxious autoworkers went on strike; many were laid off. US President Nixon, having won in a landslide on a platform of law and order, started his second term; later in the year his vice-president resigned and Nixon, facing Watergate probes, assured the country: ‘I am not a […]
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David Lega
David Lega MEP is a Swedish EPP Member of the European Parliament, member of the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Human Rights, and Convening Chair for the Abraham Accords Network in the European Parliament.
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Middle-Class Concerns and European Challenges: A Data-Driven Study from a Centre–Right Perspective
This report studies the position, aspirations, expectations and fears of Europe’s middle classes concerning some of the key challenges that the EU is facing. It is based on an extensive online survey carried out in all 27 EU member states. It reveals an acute economic insecurity and fear of falling behind among EU citizens, especially […]
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Panos Papadongonas
Panos Papadongonas is Senior Research Consultant at Glocalities. He studied human geography and international development (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam, specialising in the economics of human development. He has more than eight years of experience in cross-cultural research and has overseen numerous large-scale studies. Within Glocalities, his work focuses primarily on mapping socio-cultural […]
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Martijn Lampert
Martijn Lampert is Co-Founder and Research Director at Glocalities, a values-based international research and consultancy agency. He studied leisure sciences (cum laude) at Tilburg University. Lampert has more than 25 years of experience in researching values and culture. Prior to his work at Glocalities, Lampert was Research Director at Motivaction, where he was responsible for […]
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A Forward-Looking State of the Union Speech Outines the EU’s Future
The 2023 State of the European Union speech by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was a return to typical form. As opposed to last year, where Russia’s war in Ukraine was truly the focal point, this address had all the hallmarks of a traditional State of the Union. However, it was also unique as, […]
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Brussels, my love? Is Turkey the best mediator in the Ukraine war?
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What’s Your Order? Why our Framing of the World Matters
A new consensus in Europe and beyond seems to have formed positing that the unipolar moment in geopolitics, following the Cold War, has given way to an emerging 21st-century order defined by multipolarity: i.e., not only China but also Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey and others—not to mention the EU—represent sometimes cooperating, sometimes competing, but ultimately […]
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Some inconvenient truth about international development policy
In recent years, many observers have bemoaned the decline of the Western democratic model. But any self-reflection on this deplorable development was never truly profound and honestly conducted, as it was always much easier to blame autocratic competitors as the culprits. The retreat of Western forces from Afghanistan, and most recently, Mali and Niger, sparked […]
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Migration Update July-August 2023
Welcome to the Migration Update July-August 2023. This curated news selection brings together many of the most important developments in the migration policy area over the last month, including recent ones tied to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The purpose of these news summaries is to provide a factual base for migration debates within the […]
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Brussels Bytes EP.21 – Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare with J&J