Written by Dr Alia Middleton. Alia is a senior lecturer of Politics at the University of Surrey and Co-Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe. She is CBE’s foremost expert in Electoral politics, party campaigning strategies, UK strategic political communication, party leadership/constituency relations, and UK general election candidate recruitment. Rishi Sunak slowly being rained […]
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Written by Megan Ward. Megan is the Communications & Public Affairs Officer for the Centre for Britain and Europe and has a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Surrey. Centre for Britain and Europe Background At the Centre for Britain and Europe (CBE), our talented team ensures our projects remain relevant, impactful, […]
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Written by Margaryta Khvostova. Rita is a PhD student at the Politics & International Relations department, University of Surrey, specialising in security, hybrid warfare and human rights. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shattered assumptions about European security. For the first time in decades, full-scale war returned to the continent, exposing not only […]
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Written by Professor Amelia Hadfield. Amelia is the Founding Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe. In his first year as British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer has experienced both successes and challenges in foreign policy. As ever, international accomplishments can be as unexpected as they are brief, whilst the losses have a tendency to […]
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Written by Nikolai Kutsch and Philippe Lefevre. Nikolai is an undergraduate international exchange student from North Carolina State University, North Carolina, US, who is studying Politics this year at the University of Surrey. Philippe is the Associate Director of the CBE. Less than a week after her ascension to president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen […]
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The November presidential election victory for Donald Trump, followed by Republican successes in holding the House and taking back the Senate was a shock to many in Europe, but should not have been a surprise. While the Democrats deployed a well-organised and seemingly-effective traditional ground game targeting women, the young and minorities – supposedly the […]
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