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[…] The 20th Party Congress confirmed Xi Jinping’s historic third term in October 2022. Since then, EU leaders, heads of state and government of the member states have engaged in a series of visits to [...]

[…] Following last year’s removal of Juan Guaidó’s interim government, Venezuela's authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro was able to celebrate the anniversary of ten years in power in April unencumbered. [...]

[…] The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which takes effect on October 1, 2023, is a key element of the EU's climate policy, designed to prevent carbon leakage. However, it also has wider [...]

[…] Technological capabilities vary substantially across European regions. Combining these diverse sets of capabilities is crucial to develop the technologies necessary to master the green and digital [...]

[…] Parliamentary and presidential elections will be held in Turkey on May 14, 2023 and it’s unclear what the result will be.  In the election campaign, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has [...]

[…] Seventy-three years ago, then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presented his idea for a new form of political cooperation in Europe: the Schuman Declaration, which paved the way for the later [...]

[…] On May 9, 1950, then-French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presented a plan that became the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952 and, much later, the European Union. The economy was at the [...]

[…] On March 30th, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, gave a keynote on EU-China relations. She emphasized that de-coupling from China “is neither viable – nor in Europe's [...]

[…] Economic relations are increasingly being weaponised in the intensifying geopolitical rivalry between Western-style democracies led by the US and autocracies led by China. It is not a prophecy to say [...]

[…] Recent prescriptions for an updated EU Cohesion Policy recommend giving it new purpose and a meaningful position in the EU’s quest for strategic autonomy, all the while preserving its core promise of [...]