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AI Regulation: Reflections on the Nuclear Analogy and its Utility

By Emily Worlock In 2023, the Centre for AI Safety issued a panel statement that placed the threat of AI on par with nuclear war. Following this, influential figures such as António Gueterres, the Secretary-General of the UN, and Sam Altman, the CEO of Open-AI, voiced support for AI regulatory frameworks inspired by the InternationalContinue reading “AI Regulation: Reflections on the Nuclear Analogy and its Utility”

Stability and Growth Pact 2024 Reform: Ending the “One-Size-Fits-All” Approach?

By Alexandre Mies Since the eurozone crisis in the 2010s and especially since the Covid crisis, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), or the Eurozone’s fiscal rules, increasingly revealed its limits. Before 2024, the SGP imposed the same quantitative budgetary rules on the 20 eurozone Member States, inherited from the 1992 Maastricht Treaty: public deficitContinue reading “Stability and Growth Pact 2024 Reform: Ending the “One-Size-Fits-All” Approach?”

Strategic Autonomy or Strategic Dependence?

By Eman Jokhio Europe never gets tired of talking about “strategic autonomy.” It is a staple of speeches given in Brussels, written in EU policy documents, and mentioned in defence summit press releases. However, most of these remarks tend to lack substance and depth. Europe certainly does not lack money, technology, or even the bureaucraticContinue reading “Strategic Autonomy or Strategic Dependence?”

EU Migration Diplomacy In a Shifting World Order: The Tunisian Case

By Anita Eugenia Caproni Migration remains deeply political, as evolving power dynamics bring national interests back to the forefront. Within this framework, the 2023 Memorandum of Understanding between EU and Tunisia reflects a blend of bypassed institutional competencies, the influence of Italy and the Netherlands, and Ursula von der Leyen’s personal ambitions. Tunisia is treatedContinue reading “EU Migration Diplomacy In a Shifting World Order: The Tunisian Case”

Passport, please? The new border checks

By Beatriz Santos Mayo Introduction Nowadays, you can travel from Paris to Barcelona and from Milan to Munich without having your passport stamped. Since 1995, the Schengen Agreement has enabled over 450 million people to study, work, and travel freely across the European continent without requiring passport checks at internal borders. However, several member statesContinue reading “Passport, please? The new border checks”

What Putin’s Victory Day Parade Is Truly About: Why It Should Alarm Europe

By Berina Dizdar “Russia has been and will continue to be an indestructible obstacle to Nazism, Russophobia and anti-Semitism, and will stand in the way of the violence perpetrated by the champions of these aggressive and destructive ideas. Truth and justice are on our side. The whole of Russia, our society and all people supportContinue reading “What Putin’s Victory Day Parade Is Truly About: Why It Should Alarm Europe”