Meloni and her allies cannot deny the pressing need for a united Europe today, yet, they cannot appear overtly pro-European ...

There has therefore been a gap between ambition and reality for a long time now. This contradiction is also evident in the ...

Dr Patrick Rosenow is editor-in-chief of the magazine Vereinte Nationen, published by the United Nations Association of Germany (UNA-Germany, DGVN). His work focuses on the United Nations, ...

Kirsten Hartmann is a policy officer in the Europe and International Politics programme at the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung. She studied international relations and peace studies in Erfurt, ...

Marlies Murray is the Programme and Communications Officer at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Washington, D.C. She previously served at Aspen Institute Germany where she was responsible for the ...

Giovanni Scherpiani is a Law student at the University of Trento and he is a seminar assistant at the FES EU Office in Brussels.

Twenty years ago, ten Eastern European countries, amongst them the Baltic states, but also Poland and Hungary, joined the European Union as part of the enlargement to the East. In the past, you have ...