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Toxic Alliance: Meloni, Frederiksen, and the further normalisation of the extreme right
Toxic Alliance: Meloni, Frederiksen, and the further normalisation of the extreme right

On Monday, 10 August, Giorgia Meloni and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen posted a joint statement on social...

REGULARISATION CAN WORK, FORTRESS EUROPE CAN'T
REGULARISATION CAN WORK, FORTRESS EUROPE CAN'T

On 30 June, Spain closed the window for the extraordinary regularisation championed by the Sánchez government...

Ceuta, an improper weapon of the international MAGA
Ceuta, an improper weapon of the international MAGA

It is still unclear how much orchestration lay behind what happened at Ceuta, but something deliberate does appear...

ETS and Electrification: Brussels' Double Move
ETS and Electrification: Brussels' Double Move

On 17 July, Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera, alongside Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra and...

On the ETS Review: A Response to the Joint Declaration by Confindustria, BDI and MEDEF
On the ETS Review: A Response to the Joint Declaration by Confindustria, BDI and MEDEF

The joint declaration issued by Confindustria, BDI and MEDEF on 6 July, carried by the Financial Times and addressed...

NATO SUMMIT IN ANKARA:  a Party for Erdoğan's Admirers, a Drama for Those Who Suffer Him
NATO SUMMIT IN ANKARA: a Party for Erdoğan's Admirers, a Drama for Those Who Suffer Him

At the NATO summit in Ankara (7–8 July 2026), Erdoğan gave every allied leader a Sarsilmaz revolver engraved...

TOCQUEVILLE, DEMOCRACY AND US!
TOCQUEVILLE, DEMOCRACY AND US!

For eight years now, the Château de Tocqueville has hosted the Conversations Tocqueville — two days of...

ENLARGEMENT, YES: BUT TO WHICH EUROPE?
ENLARGEMENT, YES: BUT TO WHICH EUROPE?

On 15 June, the EU formally opened its first negotiating cluster with Ukraine and Moldova — a genuine...

TWO DAYS AT THE EU SUSTAINABLE ENERGY WEEK; THE GOOD STORY WE SHOULD BE TELLING
TWO DAYS AT THE EU SUSTAINABLE ENERGY WEEK; THE GOOD STORY WE SHOULD BE TELLING

This week the European Sustainable Energy Week turned twenty. Since 2006 it has grown into Europe’s biggest...

2 JUNE, 1946: THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC IS BORN!
2 JUNE, 1946: THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC IS BORN!

2 June 1946. Eighty years ago, Italians – and, for the first time, Italian women – went to the polls to...

WHERE IS THE EU-ETS REFORM HEADED?
WHERE IS THE EU-ETS REFORM HEADED?

On 12 May, I attended the High-Level Stakeholders Roundtable on the EU ETS Review in Brussels, a session convened by...

War in Iran? the EU has a great ressource it does not use enough. Energy efficiency
War in Iran? the EU has a great ressource it does not use enough. Energy efficiency

This op-ed is co-signed with Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse.  It was published https://www.latribune...

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