Written by Mateo Suarez-Mash (International Relations MSc) and Theano Ntokou (Public Affairs MSc) both authors have been awarded CBE Studentships An unexpected fall of the Dutch government in July 2023 resulted in an interesting electoral battle that appears to trouble the national political scene. More specifically, citizens of the Netherlands cast their votes on 22 November […]
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Jeremy Pattison graduated from the University of Surrey in 2023 with an MSc in Public Affairs and was awarded the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence postgraduate prize for the best dissertation produced on one of the four CBE substantive themes. The summer of 2022 was, as far as British politics was concerned, all about leadership […]
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2023 in Europe started a bit tumultuous with anti-Islam and Muslim demonstrations of the radical far right movements in European capitals. Far-right politician Rasmus Paludan1, the leader of the Danish far-right political party Stram Kurs (Hard Line), has started a campaign of burning copies of Koran, the holy book of Islam. He has embarked upon […]
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EU Climate Action: Will Europe’s New Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism Make a Difference? Amelia Hadfield and Tea Zyberaj[1] The EU remains committed to its green credentials. Doing so in practice however is tough. Policies and tools, as well as a clear goal, all have to come together to inspire change. The EU’s latest approach has […]
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Introduction ‘Brexit’ – a word we in Britain have heard an enormous amount of times, so much so it was named word of the year in 2016 by Collins English Dictionary! It is officially defined as ‘the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union’. But what does this actually mean? Although, Brexit is a highly used word amongst […]
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Dr Nicholas Wright is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Britain in Europe. A version of this article was published previously on the Encompass website. Since becoming chancellor at the head of Germany’s first three-party federal level coalition in December 2021, Olaf Scholz has enjoyed a torrid time. On assuming office, […]
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