Teona Giuashvili asks whether the EU’s enlargement process could be derailed by the same geopolitical forces that revived it in 2022 and calls for strong security commitments to Ukraine and other candidate countries. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 induced a major discontinuity in the EU’s foreign and security policy. It put an … Read more
The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act came into force in August last year. Yet as Gloria González Fuster explains, there remain more questions than answers about how the EU’s approach to AI will function in practice. If there was a race to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI), then the European Union won it. Maybe there was no … Read more
Ana Cardoso (PhD candidate at the School of Law of University of Minho) I. The European Union (EU) is one of the most active actors in the field of environmental protection worldwide.[1] However, today some of the EU’s most important partners – namely the United States of America (USA) – have adopted highly protectionist positions[2] … Read more
Alvaro Oleart and Juan Roch argue the EU’s “othering” of Palestine demonstrates clear double standards when compared to Europe’s treatment of Ukraine. Ursula von der Leyen promised a “geopolitical” European Commission in 2019. She did not disappoint. Beyond the impact of COVID-19, von der Leyen’s time in office has been marked by two acute crises: … Read more
The European Union is now increasingly using trade and investment instruments to advance strategic foreign policy goals. Clara Weinhardt and Ferdi de Ville argue this geoeconomic shift is sidelining developmental priorities and creating friction with developing countries. In recent years, the EU has increasingly embraced a geoeconomic approach to trade and investment, leveraging economic tools … Read more
