As Trump targets US universities, EU universities are welcoming fearful scholars. Yet finances and freedoms are under pressure here, too. Palestine, DEI and climate change drag “higher education into these political debates,” says @jjungblut.bsky.social

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Dear BlueSky

I'm working on a story this week about US academics leaving the country for Europe, as their research fields come under pressure in Trump's America.

I'd like to hear personal accounts from academics who this affects, for a piece for The Parliament Magazine. Get in touch!

After a big concession to SPD on debt reform for infrastructure, Friedrich Merz is under pressure to get a coalition deal done in favour of CDU priorities.
In a Q&A, @diw.de’s @mfratzscher.bsky.social says the reform is good news for the EU — if spent well.

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On Saturday, the Baltic states will finally desynchronise from the BRELL electricity grid, which links it to Russia and Belarus. But today's geopolitical tensions mean the region is still vulnerable to Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure...

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Great to speak with @camillegrand.bsky.social from @ecfr.eu on the future of European defence in the face of uncertain US support for the transatlantic alliance.
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UK PM Keir Starmer meets with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte today for talks focused on support for Ukraine. Trump 2.0 raises questions over US support for Kyiv — and the military alliance itself.

How did we get here? February marks five years since Brexit became official. Here are some key developments since the EU-UK breakup.
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In my latest piece for The Parliament, I look at what's driving the shift of young people's voting intentions towards the far right.

With 2019's Generation Greta being succeeded by the Bande de Bardella, young people's issues appear to be changing.

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Something I wrote back in November when Donald Trump was elected in the US. On the day of his inauguration, the EU is still grappling with what a second Trump term means for the bloc.

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It was a rough week for European politicians last week, as Elon Musk took to X to set political fires across the continent. But is Musk really causing problems for European establishment parties, or is he just a symptom something is already deeply wrong?
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Q&A: In Herbert Kickl, Austria could get its first far-right chancellor since World War II. @laurenzennser.bsky.social told The Parliament Kickl would boost the EU's pro-Russian and Eurosceptic bloc, in a political turn that has Brussels on tenterhooks.
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As Donald Trump makes his return to the White House, his political stylings could galvanise nationalist movements in Serbia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, hindering the EU’s hopes to incorporate them into the bloc.
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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni visited US President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this weekend. Her visit adds weight to the idea Meloni could be one of Europe's leading "Trump whisperers" as he re-enters the White House.

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As Russia's aggression in Ukraine almost enters its fourth year, a proposal by the Estonian government to ban Russians and Belarusians living in the country from voting in local elections has rehashed some complicated questions of belonging.

My latest for The Parliament Magazine - link below!

Michel Barnier is out. Macron is on the hunt for another PM. What's next for the EU's second-biggest member state? Q&A with @sebastienmaillard.bsky.social

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