by Jean-Claude Juncker
Dear Julian,
You are becoming a Member of the European Commission at a particularly challenging time for the European Union. Since the beginning of the mandate of this Commission, we have an exceptional opportunity,…
by Ralf Fücks
Great Britain will leave the EU. What does that mean for European Union going forward? What can be done to strengthen political unity within the Union? A commentary by Ralf Fücks.
Today is…
by Mehrnaz Samimi
Arranged marriages are far from the main means through which nuptials take place in Iran. Long gone, too, are the days when a nervous young man in his early to mid-twenties would scribble…
by Heather Grabbe & Stefan Lehne
The 2016 Austrian presidential election was emblematic of a rising trend in European politics: voters rejected mainstream parties in favor of outsider candidates, resulting in the first Green head of state in…
by Jessikka Aro
Aggressive pro-Russia troll campaigns have manipulated the public debate and silenced citizens. As trolling, hacking and other oppression techniques will only get worse in the future, governments need to find ways to…
by Stephen Booth
The UK Government has now wrapped up its EU renegotiation ahead of the referendum. Open Europe lays out its take on the renegotiation and sets this in the broader context of the UK’s…
by Martina F. Ferracane
It was about time. Pre-internet rules on data protection were not fit for our new interconnected reality. The core institutions of the European Union have finally set in stone an agreement…
by Pawel Swidlicki
Open Europe's Pawel Swidlicki outlines the recent domestic changes the Polish government has introduced to the country's Constitutional Tribunal and public media which have been described as undemocratic. Pawel argues that while they…
by Pieter Cleppe
In the wake of the Paris attacks, Open Europe's Pieter Cleppe and Leopold Traugott look at possible responses to the terrorist threat and set out four reasons why national governments should not…
by Daniel Fiott
Technology is a means to end. It can serve as a deterrent, greatly alter the balance of power on a battlefield and it can offer a political buy-in in military alliances. For European…