4/5. My heartfelt thanks go to Chatham House, especially to Elaiza and Thomas, as well as to the Royal United Services Institute, particularly to Elijah, for their exceptional partnership and support in hosting these discussions and events.

3/5. We are especially grateful to the Prime Ministers of Albania, Montenegro, and Kosovo for joining us, and to the UK Minister for Europe and other senior governmental officials, members of parliament, the media, academics, students, and others who participated.

2/5. These events were designed to be as inclusive and open as possible, with invitations extended to all six leaders of the Western Balkans. Five Prime Ministers responded positively — some were unable to attend at the last minute.

1/5. I wish to express my sincere gratitude to The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's for their invaluable support and to the Economic and Social Research Council for funding a series of side events — both public and off-the-record discussions — leading up to the Berlin Process Summit in London.

✍🏼 I am delighted to share my latest peer-reviewed piece, “The CJEU Ruled that the EncroChat Data can be Admissible Evidence in the EU”, published in the European Journal of Risk Regulation ⚖️

The case note is open access, thanks to King's College London

🖇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am delighted to share my opinion article published in The Times about the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine and the role it may play in promoting the rule of law and countering Russian disinformation and revisionism.

✍🏼 www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

We were delighted to host the Young EU Scholars Workshop at the Centre of European Law, King's College London. It was fantastic to meet so many brilliant young academics from all over Europe who were working on cutting-edge research and will undoubtedly make important contributions to EU law.

👨‍🏫 Thank you to the IPS fellows and Humboldt University for inviting me to take part in the panel discussion about migration management and return hubs.

📝 You can read my two articles in this area below:

🖇️ theconversation.com/starmer-anno...

🖇️ theconversation.com/albania-ital...

📆 On June 17, I will take part in a panel discussion at the Humboldt University of Berlin about the future of migration governance and management in Europe 🇩🇪🇪🇺

📧 For more information and to sign up, please see below ⬇️

Thank you to @gresahasa.bsky.social, @uni-graz.at for organising a webinar about Albania's parliamentary elections today at 5 pm.

Join us for an online discussion with Lura Pollozhani, Blerjana Bino, Florian Bieber, Besar Likmeta, Xheni Karaj, Celik Rruplli today👇

uni-graz.zoom.us/j/6802260008...

Thank you to Times Radio for inviting me to share some thoughts on Sir Keir Starmer's visit to Albania and why Albania snubbed the UK’s proposal for a return migration hub. I'll be publishing later a detailed explanation article in The Conversation.

There is just under 1 week until the deadline for abstracts for our Young EU Scholars Workshop, Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th July 2025 at The Dickson Poon School of Law, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.

Please do share with anyone who might be interested in attending.

Full details below.

I am delighted to share my latest peer-reviewed paper entitled “How to make EU enlargement a fairer and merit-based process: A legal and policy analysis”, published in the European Law Journal 📝

The paper is open access, thanks to King’s College London.

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you MailOnline for inviting me to discuss the protests in Europe and how liberal democracies' retreat from promoting liberal democratic values has empowered leaders in Hungary, Serbia and Turkey to drift towards authoritarianism.

See link for the interview: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Thank you Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for inviting me to discuss the anti-corruption protests in Serbia and reports that officials deployed an illegal military-grade sonic weapon to disperse and scare them.

www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-and...

Thank you Medaille Trust for inviting me to your event, "Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: Nuanced Narratives and Cultural Insights," to discuss how the current migration policies have significantly contributed to human trafficking, given the limited legal migration routes.

⚖️ Thank you to the EU Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights for inviting me to give evidence on “The Rule of Law in the Enlargement Process,” as the Parliament prepares its opinion for the 2025 EU Rule of Law Report.

🎥 See the link for more:

multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...

Delighted to join fellow masters of EU and international laws directors from Essec, Sorbonne, UCLA, and NYU for a roundtable discussion on the benefits of postgraduate studies and the value of EU-US university collaboration, and to represent KCL at the Paris Law Fair.