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A Second Term Built on Sand
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NewEU Editorial Board
Ursula von der Leyen secured her second mandate atop a coalition held together not by shared conviction but…
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Is the European Parliament Becoming Irrelevant?
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NewEU Editorial Board
The European Parliament was designed to be the democratic engine of European integration. In the current legislative cycle,…
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The Migration Pact’s Quiet Collapse
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One year after its passage, the EU Migration and Asylum Pact exists primarily as a press release. On…
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France / Western Europe
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How the Centre Normalised the Far Right
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Marc-Antoine Delacroix
The far right did not storm the gates of European respectability on its own. It was escorted in, one rhetorical concession at a time, by centrist leaders who…
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Southern Europe / Eurozone
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The Euro’s Unfinished Austerity Reckoning
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Dimitra Papadimitriou
Fifteen years after the sovereign debt crisis, Southern Europe’s economies are presented as recovery stories. But beneath the GDP headline numbers, the structural damage inflicted by troika-era austerity…
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Western Balkans / EU Enlargement
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Enlargement Fatigue and the Western Balkans Trap
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Arben Qorraj
The European Union has spent two decades promising the Western Balkans a future inside the bloc. The promises have become a trap — binding enough to shape domestic…
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EU Institutions
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The Democratic Deficit Brussels Will Not Name
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Katrien Vandenberghe
The European Union’s institutions operate under a democratic logic that most European citizens have never been invited to understand — and that opacity is not accidental but structural,…
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