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”
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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?”
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”
Populism, Euroscepticism and the EU’s Founding Fathers: The 2025 Dutch Elections
By Joanna Tobjasz Nowadays, we can see the rise of populism and Euroscepticism in many European states. Populists are known for calling themselves the “voice of the people” and for emphasising the distinction between “us” (the ordinary people, the nation, etc.) and “them” (the elites, the EU, the newcomers, etc.). In the context of theContinue reading “Populism, Euroscepticism and the EU’s Founding Fathers: The 2025 Dutch Elections”
Opening the European Parliament’s Doors: Engaging Citizens to Address the Housing Crisis
By Edoardo Vezzoli Housing in Contemporary Europe In recent years, the current housing situation has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges across the European Union (EU). Exacerbated by the pandemic and the on-going cost-of-living crisis, housing affordability has indeed significantly worsened across EU Member States, becoming one of the most urgent concerns, ifContinue reading “Opening the European Parliament’s Doors: Engaging Citizens to Address the Housing Crisis”
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