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Lost & Found: A European Literary Map of London is popping up in Düsseldorf this February!

Alongside the exhibition, there will be a series of talks and events.

Take a look at the full programme: www.international-library.de/events/lost-...

@europeanlitlondon.bsky.social

A huge thanks to our speakers: @sabinaciofu.bsky.social (techUK) on EU & global tech policy engagement, and Álvaro García-Delgado (EU Delegation to the UK) on EU digital strategy, the Chips Act & AI Act.

#Lobbying
#PublicPolicy
#TechPolicy
#EULaw
#DigitalGovernance
#EUStudies

Masterclass on Interest Representation & Lobbying in EU Digital Policymaking 💻

Via a simulated ‘Digital Simplification Package,’ students role-played tech firms, industry & civil society to negotiate EU rules.

@ucleisps.bsky.social

#EUpolitics
#DigitalPolicy
#EUGovernance
#InterestGroups

This Wednesday!

We are pleased to announce the first publication from the latest research conducted by the @uclholocaust.bsky.social
It can be downloaded for free from: holocausteducation.org.uk/research/80-years/

@andypearce.bsky.social
@arthurjchapman.bsky.social
@eddorrell.bsky.social

Veronika Fikfak: ECHR Reform: A Danger of Contagion in Relation to Article 3 On Wednesday 10 December, which is also Human Rights Day, Ministers of Justice of the Council of Europe will meet in Strasbourg to discuss how the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) should …

ECHR Reform: A Danger of Contagion in Relation to Article 3

Veronika Fikfak from @uclspp.bsky.social on the propsed changes to the ECHR. ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/09/v...

Responding to the International Education Strategy requires an appreciation of how fast the world is changing Anton Muscatelli explains why a considered response to the government’s international education priorities requires paying careful attention to rapid global change Anton Muscatelli sets out how a cons...

'Two major issues are worth highlighting. First, there is no such thing as a single TNE model, and the financial margins differ markedly depending on the host country and the teaching model.' 1/3

Three bays of bookshelves featuring roughly thirty books displayed on bookstands with their covers facing forwards.

A QR code

A bay of bookshelves with a number of books displayed on bookstands, with their covers facing forwards.

A bay of bookshelves with a number of books displayed on bookstands, with their covers facing forwards.

📚 UCL SSEES Library Academic Book Display — International Day of Education 2026 📚
Celebrating learning and area studies at SSEES with titles across history, politics, culture, language, and more.
📱 Scan the QR code to explore UCL Press e-books by SSEES academic staff.

a footnote to this discussion is that the EP acquired the power to request these opinions from the CJEU only in 2003, along with the general power to request the annulment of EU legislation

Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

An exceptional speech: 👇
"We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers (...)."
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

"Unparalleled global impact on #peace."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @martkuldkepp.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

You can read a free chapter of Defending the Political Constitution here:

fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

📢 New paper alert: How does war shape democratic values?
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine
by @kristinmbakke.bsky.social, Marianne Dahl & Kit Rickard. 📖 Published in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social special issue on Political Violence in Democracies.
👇🧵

Apologies for being self-referential but

PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change

The CfP is out for a great annual PhD student workshop run out of our department: www.conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...

[Scene is heaven, in clouds. JESUS, acting as God’s PA, is briefing God, a big ball of light with arms sat at an executive desk, with a computer on it]. Jesus [holding a tablet computer]: OK, so - The next one to check in on is… ‘Earth’. God: Spelling? Jesus: E-A-R-T-H. [God types into the computer] tap-tap-tap-tap-tap. Tap. God: F—ing hell. What’s happened here!? We need to complain - get me the manager. Jesus: Uh, well, the most powerful one is… [Jesus turns his iPad round to show God. We can’t see the screen] God: What is that. I mean, it’s been a while but that’s definitely not how I designed them. Are you sure we’ve got the right planet? Jesus: Yes, this is the… top human. God: Off and on it again Jesus: I’ll book the meteor [Ends]

Off and on it

IHR programme for the Europe & the World Seminar 12 January: Yahya Nurgat: The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf 9 March: Sheilagh Ogilvie: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid 23 March: Pablo Gómez: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality

Winter Programme 2025-26 for our seminar on Europe & the World @ihr.bsky.social !

Mondays, 17:30 (UK time).

Everybody very welcome, in Bloomsbury or on zoom. All info and forms to get the zoom links here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Trump’s ambitions in Greenland push Iceland closer to the EU | Euractiv Concerns over US intentions and regional security are nudging Reykjavik towards Brussels

"As security concerns rise and reliance on Washington comes under scrutiny, EU membership is increasingly discussed in Reykjavik not as an economic choice, but as a question of long-term defence and geopolitical alignment."

Hardly suprising

www.euractiv.com/news/trumps-...

It’s deeply moving to see Shapeshifters—my text about cancer, war, womanhood, and transformation—published in a beautiful Ukrainian translation by Mariia Bahrii in Reporters.

Links to the original text and the Ukrainian translation are below.

Illustrations: Bohdana Rudenko. Photos: Nicola Roper.

For those no longer checking X (which I have to do for work) also note the French Foreign Ministry now has an official "French Response" Accounts which posts uncensored, wild and meme-y.

The EU flag – featuring a circle of yellow stars against a blue background – is blowing in the breeze on a flagpole.

Announcing the inaugural lecture of UCL Laws' Oliver Gerstenberg, Professor of EU Law and Legal Theory. 🇪🇺

📢 EU Values, Liberal Dialogue, and the Changing Role of the Court of Justice of the EU

📅 5 February 2026 | ⏰ 6pm | 📍 Hybrid

Book now: tinyurl.com/ykhkuhkv

UCL Laws is marking 200 years of legal education in 2026, and as part of the celebrations we have launched a digital hub that celebrates the Faculty's past, present and future. ⚖️ 🏛️ 🌟 Explore the UCL200 at Laws hub, including interviews, photos, our events programme and more! ➡️ tinyurl.com/3wv2ybun

Disappointing that Gramsci didn’t really write of a “time of monsters” (very, very loose translation it seems) but “morbid/pathological phenomena”. Still, this supposed quote has had me reaching for The Prison Notebooks.

Russia launched a mass attack on Ukraine overnight with drones and missiles, hitting Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa, Vinnytsia and Poltava. The left bank of Kyiv lost power and heat in over 5,600 buildings. One person was killed near Bucha. Ukraine reports the first use of Russia’s new Iskander-I missile.

The British Academy’s Global (Dis)Order programme couldn’t be more timely.

Link here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...?

390 MEPs vote against the motion of censure today. Unlike the Mercosur vote yesterday, this shows that the large groups of the centre are still behind von der Leyen, and also tired of the regular motion of censure votes.

As @ucl.ac.uk deepens its engagement with Europe, the @uclei.bsky.social is a vital hub that connects our experts with partners, policymakers and the public. This Annual Review offers a thoughtful overview of what that looks like in practice.

#UCLEurope

If you aren't fed up to the back teeth with 2025, you can listen to what @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social researchers thought were its key themes. And if you just want to see the back of this year, you can hear our thoughts on what's coming up next.

An article that brings you back to the good old days of Brexit with its warped and at times strange arguments. I have a question at the end, so please bear with me, but I'll highlight some examples: /1

Contested Competences in the European Union: The Law and Politics of Institutional Choice Abstract. What role do rules really play in shaping the behaviour of legislative actors? In theory, competences and procedures provide a framework within w

well, well, well if it isn't the book I started working on in 2017:

academic.oup.com/book/61769