Merkel – the invincible? Why the Schulz effect wouldn’t last
Photo credits: CDU NRW, https://www.cdu-nrw.de/39-landesparteitag By Lisa Dittmer, Editor of the PS21 Blog. Less than three months ago, Germany’s social democrats pulled past Merkel’s CDU in the...
View ArticleFrom ‘good boy’ to terrorist: What is the appeal of ISIS?
Westminster, 23 March 2017. Photo credits: Prioryman – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org By Linda Schlegel. Linda is a trainee at the Council of Europe. The so-called Islamic State...
View ArticlePS21 Event Writeup –‘Imagining Britain in 2030’
What will Britain look like by 2030? How will Brexit have played out or will the process be still ongoing? Will Great Britain’s map have changed or will greater devolution have resulted in a tweaking...
View ArticleHas EU lost its ‘carrot’?
Lesia Dubenko graduated from Lund University with a Master’s in European Affairs and now is a journalist in Ukraine The EU’s foreign policy has previously developed by offering benefits. But with...
View ArticleWhy Europe has stopped trusting
Iona Allan In Rome last month, Luigi di Maio, the 31 year frontman of the anti-establishment 5 Star Party won over 24% of the electoral vote and became the most powerful political force in Italy. For...
View ArticleImagining 2030: the European Union 15 years after Brexit
An op-ed from the foreseeable future, by Peter Apps, PS21 executive director As Lord Nigel Farage does the round of life-streaming chat shows in the run up to the fifteenth anniversary of the Brexit...
View ArticleThe tragedy of Europe: Location, location, location
A printer-friendly version is available here. Peter Apps is Reuters global defence correspondent. He is currently on sabbatical as executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century...
View ArticleExploiting the Electorate: Lessons from Brexit
Caitlin Vito is a research Events Administrator at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); Formerly at NATO, Political Affairs and Security Policy Division On June 16th British...
View ArticleItaly and Libya: Why Libyan stability is vital to PM Renzi’s career
By Lorenzo Holt- Lorenzo is an Italian-American journalist based in London. The Italian government is facing enough pressure to put its survival over the next few months into question. Depositors have...
View ArticleThe problem with outsourcing Europe’s migrant crisis
by Catherine Tilke. Catherine edits the PS21 website and can be reached at editor@projects21.org. The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)- the government body responsible for the...
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