Janez Kren and Martina Lawless (Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland) The UK exited the EU Single Market and Customs Union on January 1, 2021, arguably the largest incidence of…
Federico Fabbrini (Professor of Law, Dublin City University; Founding Director, Brexit Institute; Visiting Professor, Princeton University) It has been repeatedly emphasized how Brexit has benefited Dublin, with the Irish capital…
Lucrezia Rossi (DCU Brexit Institute) The origin of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) dates back to 1996, when China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan signed an international agreement known as Group…
Liv Sunnercrantz (University of Stavanger) The results of the 2022 Swedish elections looked like a “a seismic shift” to international onlookers. But the increased electoral support for the nationalist far…
Giovanni Zaccaroni (University of Milan Bicocca) Giorgia Meloni scored a large victory in the Italian general elections on Sunday. This, in light of the absolute majority she secured at both…
Niccolò Ruffin On Sunday, September 25, Italian voters made their decision: the center-right coalition, led by “Fratelli d’Italia” leader Giorgia Meloni, will have a large majority in the two chambers…
Jasmine Faudone (Dublin City University) On Thursday 15th September 2022 the DCU Brexit Institute held an online event on “The Future of the Northern Ireland Protocol and EU-UK Relations After…
Andrew Duff Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen have both laid bold claims to having got Brexit done, inoculated people against Covid-19 and come to the rescue of Ukraine…
Maria Patrin (University of Florence) On 14 September 2022, like every year, the European Commission’s President Ursula Von der Leyen delivered her State of the Union speech in front of the…
Ian Cooper (Dublin City University) The appointment of Liz Truss as the new UK Prime Minister is an indication that there is unlikely to be any softening of the hard-line…