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Paramedics wheeling a stretcher into a hospital.

Slovakia’s polarised politics: Robert Fico warned a politician could be violently attacked weeks before assassination attempt

Tomas Sniegon, Lund University

Bodyguards running in different directions at teh scene of Robert Fico's shooting

Robert Fico: why the attempted assassination of Slovakian prime minister could fuel the information war between Russia and Europe

Michael Toomey, University of Glasgow

Sala de plenos del Parlamento Europeo en Estrasburgo.

Four ways EU laws affect the daily lives of European citizens today

Joseba K. Fernández Gaztea, Universidad de Navarra

Ukrainian refugee with a child leaves the country at the Slovakian border fleeing Russian aggression against Ukraine, February 2022.

How German media attention idealises female Ukrainian refugees

Antje Missbach, Bielefeld University and Lesley Pruitt, The University of Melbourne

Europe is still in short-term crisis mode over Ukraine and lacks a vision for its post-war identity

Richard Youngs, University of Warwick

Ursula von der Leyen, Volodymyr Zelensky and Charles Michel clasping hands at a press conference

French prison break: violent scenes are a symptom of authorities’ struggle with organised crime

Joseph Downing, Aston University

How to buy a good pair of sunglasses

Jacobo García Queiruga, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Verónica Noya Padín, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Meet Paris’ black dandies, the Sapeurs

Daouda Coulibaly, EDC Paris Business School

Femicide: many countries around the world are making the killing of women a specific crime – here’s why it’s needed

Madhumita Pandey, Sheffield Hallam University

A protester standing in front of police, wearing a white mask with fake blood coming from its nose and mouth

The EU’s new ecocide law may still let environmental criminals get away with it

Filippos Proedrou, University of South Wales and Maria Pournara, Swansea University

Waste on ground, polluting chimneys in background

How companies calculate their carbon footprints

Gianfranco Gianfrate, EDHEC Business School

We need to talk about Chinese and US influence in Europe’s energy industry

Carine Sebi, Grenoble École de Management (GEM) and Patrick Criqui, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

European Elections 2024

Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections – but is it playing into the far right’s hands?

Gabriele Abels, University of Tübingen

The French identify as Europeans – and yet are also notoriously Eurosceptic

Pierre Bréchon, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France

Why experts fear the EU’s new migration laws could lead to more deaths at sea

Pierre Micheletti, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

The EU should stop ‘westsplaining’ and listen to its smaller eastern members – they saw the Ukraine war coming

Viktoriia Lapa, Bocconi University

Gabrielius Landsbergis speaking into multiple microphones at a press conference with European flags in the background.

Why EU information campaigns are failing to deter migrants from leaving

Antoine Pécoud, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and Mélodie Beaujeu, Sciences Po

African migrants attempting to flee to Europe disembark in Sfax from a vessel belonging to the Tunisian coastguard, after having been intercepted at sea, on 10 August 2023.

New EU trade rules could put poor countries in a billion dollar ‘green squeeze’

Jodie Keane, ODI

Empty hemicycle of the European Parliament in Brussels with the flags of the member states.

EU enlargement: What does the future hold?

Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera de Prat, Universitat de Barcelona

Illustration of man choosing to go left or right

Interest rates: the ugly dilemma facing Europe’s central banks – and why it’s a mistake to cut too soon

Daniel Gros, Bocconi University and Pietro Galeone, Bocconi University

‘Lazy’, ‘messy’, ‘smart’: how labels affect a child’s personality development

Montserrat Magro Gutiérrez, Universidad Nebrija and Paula Contesse Carvacho, Universidad Nebrija

Asylum chaos triggers fresh tensions over how to manage Ireland’s post-Brexit border

Niall Cunningham, Newcastle University

A man squats next to the Grand Canal in Dublin and washes his hands, while a row of blue tents is visible behind him on the canal bank

Can science explain why couples break up? The mathematical anatomy of a fall

José-Manuel Rey, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Jorge Herrera de la Cruz, Universidad CEU San Pablo

Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy

Henk Hoekstra, Leiden University

Cycling: The untapped potential for improving our health (and the climate)

Kévin Jean, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM); Audrey de Nazelle, Imperial College London; Marion Leroutier, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Philippe Quirion, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

Photo de la course de l'ADFC, pour réclamer de meilleures conditions de cyclisme

For Europe to emulate Silicon Valley’s tech success, it should change its startup funding model

Michaela Hruskova, University of Stirling and Katharina Scheidgen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Tech startup illustration with a rocket in the middle

Electric cars pile up at European ports as Chinese firms struggle to find buyers

Tom Stacey, Anglia Ruskin University

A port car park full of cars waiting to be loaded onto cargo ships.

Family farms are fast disappearing: our research shows how young generations can take them up successfully

Rania Labaki, EDHEC Business School and Maryem Cherni, UniLaSalle

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Trump-proofing Nato: why Europe’s current nuclear deterrents may not be enough

Natasha Lindstaedt, University of Essex

Private companies are exploiting outer space, but the law is struggling to catch up

Manolis Plionis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Anthi Koskina, University of Athens

Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Andrés Porras Chaves, IE University

Imagen de una oficina con archivadores que llegan hasta el techo y papeles por el suelo.

The Mattei Plan: why Giorgia Meloni is looking to Africa

Jean-Pierre Darnis, Université Côte d’Azur

Climate change is speeding up in Antarctica

Sergi González Herrero, Universitat de Barcelona

What did Roman wine taste like? Much better than previously thought, according to new research

Dimitri Van Limbergen, Ghent University

What if companies rewarded employees for their failures?

Souad Brinette, EDC Paris Business School; Abdoulkarim Idi Cheffou, ISG International Business School, and Vesselina Tossan, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM)

Do employees slack off after receiving their bonuses? Our research tells a more optimistic story

Argyro Avgoustaki, ESCP Business School and Hans TW Frankort, City, University of London

100,000 years and counting: how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?

Thomas Keating, Linköping University and Anna Storm, Linköping University

‘I might as well stop and diversify into holiday lets’ – new research reveals the reality of farming after Brexit

Peter Gittins, University of Leeds and Deema Refai, University of Leeds

The frantic pace of modern life is damaging our sense of time, but nature can help us heal – new study

Ricardo Correia, University of Turku

Huge beech tree with large branches in the enchanted forest in the Basque Country, Alava, Spain.

‘Empathetic’ AI has more to do with psychopathy than emotional intelligence – but that doesn’t mean we can treat machines cruelly

Catrin Misselhorn, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

The Russia-Ukraine War has caused a staggering amount of cultural destruction – both seen and unseen

Ian Kuijt, University of Notre Dame; Pavlo Shydlovskyi, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and William Donaruma, University of Notre Dame

Ruins of a blue and white Orthodox church.

The deep Mediterraneen: a temporary refuge for gorgonian coral forests facing marine heat waves

Lorenzo Bramanti, Sorbonne Université

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