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Since my husband has taken to spraying the door handles with vodka, our apartment has begun to resemble Stalin’s politburo: you cannot leave when you want to, and there will […]
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In this commentary, Egmont senior researcher and affiliated senior researcher with the Leuven Institute of Criminology (University of Leuven) Valérie Arnould examines the human rights challenges the Covid-19 crisis poses […]
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The coronavirus crisis exposed quite a few shortcomings in how governments deal with crises. Managing the vulnerabilities of dependencies is one of them. This article was first published in Encompass-Europe. […]
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Even the most dystopian science fiction novel usually is optimistic in one way: somehow humanity has always managed to create a planetary government. So when the aliens land and, true […]
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The European Commission’s proposal for a ‘Just Transition Mechanism’ has rapidly become a contentious aspect of the European Green Deal. The mechanism supports the EU’s goal of achieving climate neutrality […]
The corona crisis, the US-China great power competition and lacklustre international rules vividly demonstrate the vulnerability of economic interdependence. Interdependence is a power struggle, not a mutual aid society. For […]
Conference on the occasion of the publication of the book under the same title by Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop (Egmont & Ghent University) With the author, Prof. Dr. Jolyon Howorth […]
Political values have long informed the ways in which many European states and the EU itself approach China. But the way in which these values – in particular democracy, human […]
In September 2018, the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy adopted a Joint Communication on connectivity. In it, the EU highlights […]
FULLY BOOKED Programme: Moderator: Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop, Egmont & Ghent University Speakers: Gunta Sloga, Executive director, Baltic Centre for Media Exellence, Riga Janis Sarts, Director at the NATO […]