Does the EU's ambition to become a geopolitical actor change the EU itself? 🌍 @johanadriaensen.bsky.social, Sophie Vanhoonacker & Igor Sarkissian propose a framework to analyse how adaptive pressures on the EU's institutional setup and sketch where these changes are already visible. 👇

What is to happen to the US FTA’s after Recession Day? The US clearly violates its existing agreements, including those with long-standing allies like Israel, South-Korea, and Australia. So how can they respond? (thread). (1/6)

Just for the optics alone, it would have been good for the EU and Ukraine to schedule a parallel meeting today to discuss how they see an end to the war. That way, when proper talks may start, there are two rivalling plans and the EU/Ukraine would not enter negotiations on the backfoot.

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Yesterday was a big day - our book w. @christopherhuggins.bsky.social on #TeachingEuropeanUnionPolitics is out! 👍Fantastic contributors from across the continent+many disciplines 👍A textbook for teachers - helping us (re)think how we teach 👍actually affordable?! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/tea...

📣Call for Workshops! Join us in Maastricht for the Annual Political Science Workshops of the Low Countries, aka #Politicologenetmaal!🎉 📝 Info & submit: rb.gy/4vj6ji ⏰ Submission deadline: January 15, 2024 📆 Conference dates: June 13-14, 2024 @VPW_be @NKWP_NL

"The politics of understaffing international organisations: the EU Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC)" (co-authored with @johanadriaensen.bsky.social) has now found a permanent home @europeansecurity.bsky.social in Vol 32 Issue 4: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (open access)