Europe
Triannual reports on EU foreign and security policy, enlargement dynamics, cohesion challenges, and intra-European political developments.
Heritage Restitution and the Future of Ibero-American Relations
The cases of Portugal and Spain expose the ambivalence of ‘shared heritage’. Although cultural heritage can support cooperation and diplomatic rapprochement, this notion may obscure the unequal historical circumstances through which objects entered European collections. Restitution can therefore …
Beyond Borders, Beyond Treaties: The EU–Mexico Struggle Against Transnational Drug Trafficking
EU–Mexico cooperation has strengthened cross-border efforts against drug trafficking, but legal fragmentation, institutional differences, and human-rights concerns continue to limit its effectiveness.
To what extent is the transatlantic digital relationship becoming asymmetric in the age of AI?
For years, Europe’s technology sovereignty debate has wrongly focused only on where data lives. In the meanwhile, the rapid development of the digital economy has also generated new governance challenges, and traditional governance models can hardly adapt to them. As there is a growing recognitio…
Bigger or Better?
Main question: How can the EU expand its borders via geopolitically urgent enlargement without causing paralysis in its decision-making voting system? Argument: The EU must explicitly tie staged Council voting rights for candidate states to verified domestic milestones in democratic governance. C…
At Europe’s Door: Italy’s Migration Crisis
How does Italy’s bilateral agreement with Albania fit within the broader EU migration framework? The protocol is innovative because it maintains full Italian jurisdiction on Albanian soil, avoiding burden-shifting while managing migration pressure. Despite its legal creativity, the agreement face…
Rhetoric Over Rules: EU Migration Crisis
To what extent does anti-migrant rhetoric in Hungary and Poland undermine EU migration solidarity under the 2024 Pact? Both governments use securitisation rhetoric to normalise non-compliance, deepen the East-West divide, and obstruct the Pact’s 2026 implementation. Without stronger enforcement o…