The 2019 UK General Election: towards a Brexit catharsis?
On 12 December 2019, UK voters confront another choice whether to advance Brexit or not. More than three years after the referendum, all issues have been scrutinized and the collective […]
European Affairs
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The EU-Mercosur agreement: towards integrated climate policy?
The recently signed EU-Mercosur agreement has met with criticism from civil society, farmers and politicians around the EU. These criticisms have been amplified by recent forest fires in the Amazon. […]
An Ambitious Agenda or Big Words? Developing a European Approach to AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a key area of global strategic competition, offering potentially revolutionary solutions for commercial, civil, and military applications. While the European Union (EU) has recently taken […]
Commentaries
The Brexit Circus, the Hungarian Arena, and the Great Power Game
As a Belgian, I welcome Britain into the club of countries whose domestic politics are a source of bemused entertainment for the rest of the world. I understand that as […]
Spitzenkandidaten: A debate about power and about the future development of the EU
In 2014, the European Parliament staged a small ‘coup’ when it imposed the EPP “Spitzenkandidat” Jean-Claude Juncker as the new Commission President, on the basis of a rather innovative reading […]
Commentaries
Summer reading by Johan Verbeke – The Geography of Thought
Personal recommendation: A few years ago I stumbled on a little book in the Georgetown University bookshop written by former Yale University Professor Richard Nisbett, published by the Free Press […]