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CBE Scholarship Award

By Sam Moffoot, Winner of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Undergraduate Scholarship for Academic year 2021-22 The paper for which I have been awarded the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Undergraduate Scholarship was submitted as a part of the module European Security and Diplomacy, a module I was keen to take due to its […]


How the War in Ukraine Puts Climate Action in Peril

by Will Hitt As Russia turns off the gas in response to sanctions, energy insecurity in Europe is exposed, the price of energy surges, European economies suffer from soaring inflation, and climate action is put on the back burner in the name of public security. Introduction Due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, alongside the tragic […]


My Research Associate Role at the CBE – by Megan Isherwood

I am hugely grateful for all the invaluable opportunities that the Centre for Britain and Europe offered me as a Research Associate. In a project conducting a COVID-19 impact assessment of the key sectors of Surrey’s economy, I was appointed Research Lead for the Healthcare and Epidemiology cluster. This provided me with the chance to […]


The curious case of post-Brexit Britain

By Christian Turner– Ph.D. candidate and Junior Fellow with the Centre for Britain and Europe. As Boris Johnson prepares to depart Downing Street after a tumultuous three year period, it is fair to stake stock of Britain’s position. Six years on from that fateful EU Referendum, Britain is set to welcome its fourth Prime Minister […]


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