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Mar 14, 20243 min read
From Green to Industrial Deal? The price tag on „Queen Ursula’s” next presidential term
When Ursula von der Leyen was picked as the European Commission’s President for the first time in 2019, stakeholders across the EU where...
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Mar 8, 20242 min read
A semester of rushed trilogues : a look into the pre-electoral European legislative process
The key to compromise for EU legislators is the trilogue : a meeting between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission to...
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Feb 23, 20242 min read
Italy prepares for the European Elections
Saturday the 8th and Sunday the 9th of June the Italians will be called to vote for the European Parliament. One of the specific features...
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Feb 22, 20244 min read
Divided parties don’t win elections - Can the Conservatives unite?
Divided parties don’t win elections. That’s an adage as old as time or at least since it was popularised by the John Major Government in...
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Feb 8, 20244 min read
No new government in the Netherlands for now
On Tuesday evening, 6 February, Pieter Omtzigt, leader of the New Social Contract party, pulled the plug on the talks on forming a new...
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Feb 1, 20243 min read
A Hamilton moment for Ukraine?How to fund a collective European effort for Kiev without violating the German debt brake
It has been the most difficult fiscal birth ever but in late January the German government coalition finally managed to agree on a budget...
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Jan 26, 20242 min read
French government on standby: more work for lobbying firms
2024 was kicked off with the presidential announcement of a new era: big projects to respond to the growing criticisms the government had...
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Jan 19, 20243 min read
Latest polls for the European Elections
The preparation of the upcoming European elections are on full speed since the start of 2024. With less than six months to go, European...
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Dec 8, 20234 min read
BRIEFING: WHAT POLLING IN THE UK SUGGESTS FOR THE NEXT ELECTION
‘Labour are going to win the next election.’ This sentence has been the defining feature of so much UK political news over the last year....
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Nov 30, 20234 min read
Netherlands waits after unexpected big win by Geert Wilders' PVV
The exit polls after the Dutch parliamentary elections hit like a bomb. Geert Wilders' populist Party for Freedom (PVV) recorded a huge...
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Nov 22, 20233 min read
Germany’s fiscal Waterloo: Will Chancellor Scholz’ coalition be shipped to St. Helena?
As director Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” movie comes out, it can be stated that November 15th, 2023 has been the German governing...
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Nov 17, 20232 min read
The future of farming : has France put it on hold?
As the 2022 presidential campaign started, the incumbent candidate, Emmanuel Macron, announced that agricultural reform would be a main...
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Nov 8, 20232 min read
Navigating challenges, embracing opportunities: The Future of European Wind Power
At the end of October, the European Commission presented an action plan to support the successful deployment of wind energy in the EU....
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Nov 3, 20232 min read
Overview of the Italian electoral reform proposal
In Italy, the government has presented the project of one of the most flaunted reforms of the electoral campaign of the centre-right...
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Oct 27, 20233 min read
What might UK and EU relations look like under a Labour Government?
The UK party conference season has now drawn to a close, and a long period of campaigning before a general election, to be held by the...
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Oct 17, 20234 min read
When the Netherlands goes to the polls, there is one certainty
In July, the fourth Rutte cabinet fell after the four-party coalition could not agree on tightening immigration policy. That cabinet had...
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Oct 10, 20233 min read
Shifting tectonics - what the recent electoral success of AfD in Germany may mean for the EU
In Germany, like in more and more EU member states, right-wing populists apparently have come to stay. At last Sunday’s (October 8th)...
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Sep 29, 20232 min read
Elections in the French Senate: an ode to traditional French politics
A strengthened position for the centre right, a limited influence of the President’s politics and a tendency to preserve the status quo:...
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Sep 18, 20232 min read
Will Europe’s Green Deal survive the 2024 elections?
Next year will be eventful for the European Union with European Parliament elections and the installation of a new European Commission. ...
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Aug 31, 20231 min read
Launch of international public affairs network: United Government Affairs
We are happy to announce United Government Affairs.
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