The European Union is reimagining its power-projection and deterrence capabilities in response to conditions of non-peace. ‘Total defence’ – a whole-of-society, whole-of-government approach to secu...

Icelanders have voted against reopening accession talks with the European Union. Veronica Anghel and Erik Jones claim that the result prevents Iceland from seeking a formal decision-making role for no...

European Union enlargement has always been more flexible than the story about a strictly ‘merit-based’ approach would suggest. Here’s why.

Veronica Anghel is an Assistant Professor at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe.  Website When […]

On 5 March, EU ambassadors rejected a proposal from the European Commission that would have allowed Ukraine to formally join the European Union before completing the reforms required for…

European Parliament diplomacy and the end of the Cold War: The integration of central and eastern European countries

Now more than ever, our armed forces need to understand the history of civil-military relations.

On 5 March, EU ambassadors rejected a proposal from the European Commission that would have allowed Ukraine to formally join the European Union before completing the reforms required for…

What kind of world order does his national security strategy seek?

The Russia-Ukraine war forced the EU to speak the language of power, but it didn’t turn the EU into a state. Veronica Anghel argues that EU geopolitics looks different: dense ties, not just hard power...

By negotiating directly with the Kremlin, the Trump administration has broken the taboo on diplomatic contacts with Russia. With Ukrainian and European security at stake, is it time for Brussels to op...

A plan to beat the Kremlin on its own terms.

The European Union can fail, but it doesn’t have to.  That is the message that you read across Emmanual Macron’s 2024 Sorbonne speech, in Mario Draghi’s 2024 report on…

The European Union is undergoing strategic redefinition through wartime conditions and shifting global orders, seeking to position itself as a geopolitical power. Enlargement and deeper integration...

Moldova is heading into parliamentary elections on 28 September, and the story the government is selling abroad (a shining European future, billions in EU ... read at Wyoming Star. Stay informed with ...

A Plan to Beat the Kremlin on Its Own Terms

Between 2005 and 2025, repeated European crises spurred various forms of EU polity building in a process we call ‘binding’ (i.e., the development of capacity by the centre to provide public goods)....

A re-run election averted autocracy but left democracy in peril

A re-run election averted autocracy but left democracy in peril

Romania’s democracy just survived a near-death experience, but it may be more vulnerable going forward. How far can leaders go in defending democracy without compromising their claim to represent the…

This paper analyses whether gender gaps in attitudes to income inequality, redistribution, and the welfare state in Western Europe have changed across generations. Whilst generational patterns of v...