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⚡The war in Ukraine has transformed the nature of warfare. In the latest #TheConversation article, Monika Sus @eui-schuman.bsky.social explores the role ordinary citizens play in responding to today’s evolving security challenges. 🔗https://loom.ly/2poRllQ

Researcher Diego Vila Martin @eui-eco.bsky.social shows how rising energy prices drive financial inequality. He reveals that during energy price spikes, low-income families can face inflation rates twice as high as wealthier households 🔗 https://loom.ly/juGdIjM

When a war makes the headlines, the story is rarely told in quite the same way everywhere. 🌍 Michal Parízek @eui-sps.bsky.social maps how global news media cover conflicts & what these differences reveal about how we see the world. 🔎 https://loom.ly/sZp57wg

Twenty years on, what makes the Max Weber Programme unique? Director Sergio Puig and Fellows Yasemin Akçagüner and Roberto Valli talk about working across disciplines and why research needs room to think, in the latest #uniquelyEUI episode. https://loom.ly/r_MtR3I

The EUI Spain Alumni Chapter is officially launched! 🇪🇺 On 21 September, alumni, researchers and partners gathered at CSIC in Madrid to discuss the role of social sciences in knowledge, democracy and public life, celebrating the EUI’s ties with Spain. 👉 https://loom.ly/1bPsOCY #EUI50 #EUIAlumni

Why do voters support leaders who weaken democratic institutions? Givi Silagadze @eui-sps.bsky.social explores how political opponents can come to be seen as an existential threat, making democratic erosion seem tolerable. Read more: https://loom.ly/HMzbm88

Who is expected to clean up the mess at home? 🧹 Léa Pessin @eui-sps.bsky.social explores why women are still expected to do more housework, even when both partners work full-time. Read more: https://loom.ly/cZWbAxE

Are young people really more depressed than previous generations? On #WorldMentalHealthDay, @eui-sps.bsky.social research finds the answer changes depending on the country. 📌 https://loom.ly/QE1CBDU

Discover 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, exploring merchant Francesco Carletti’s world through 69 objects revealing global trade and cultural exchange around 1600, from a Ming Chinese atlas to a Japanese katana. 📍 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 🗓️ Until 9 January 2027 🎫 https://loom.ly/DfIEZBo

💡Amidst deepening EU-China trade tensions, Kunhao Yang, a PhD researcher at the @eui-law.bsky.social, in the latest #TheConversation piece, explores how WTO reform could help address structural trade imbalances between the two sides. 🔗 https://loom.ly/zJ6USnI

Why do some communities in central Mali join jihadist groups while others resist them? Natasja Rupesinghe spent seven years asking them. Watch the full video: https://loom.ly/oSUee7Y

What stories are missing from European memory? @eui-history.bsky.social Professor Monika Baar explores how disability has been written out of European history & what changes when we revisit the past through a disability lens. 🔎 https://loom.ly/Bo-9TaI

In the 1970-80s, the EC experimented with models, experts & new approaches to futures research. Margaret Pulk @eui-history.bsky.social explores what happened when researchers and policymakers disagreed on what it could tell them. Read: https://loom.ly/uKPEQOg

What does innovative teaching look like at the EUI? Our #uniquelyEUI series explores the people & ideas shaping learning at the Institute. In this episode, students learn international law by performing it, using real courtroom transcripts from the ICC @eui-law.bsky.social 🎥 Watch: loom.ly/A74T5eE

🎉 A great result for the EUI in the 2026 ShanghaiRanking! We rank 1st within the EU and 11th worldwide for Political Sciences. A recognition of the international research community at the heart of the EUI. 👏 Read the full news 🔗 https://loom.ly/wKMjcL0

@eui-schuman.bsky.social Director @erik-jones.bsky.social reflects on how an encounter with Gunnar Myrdal’s book transformed his thinking on economic integration, globalisation & political institutions 🔗 https://loom.ly/LlKDXaU

✨ In the latest #TheConversation article, Michael FitzGerald, a doctoral researcher at the @eui-law.bsky.social, asks if AI is really driving decline in reading skills, or the latest technology to expose deeper changes in how we learn? 🔗https://loom.ly/ijk4zBQ

❓Think national politicians always blame international organisations (IOs) when things go wrong? Visiting Fellow @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social reveals that leaders use this tactic less often and less successfully than we think. Read more 👉 https://loom.ly/a9c3-Gg

Returning an online order feels ordinary. Much of what goes back becomes textile waste far from Europe. In our new #MyEUIResearch video, Carolina Paulesu argues that consumer law is not neutral. @eui-law.bsky.social https://loom.ly/DDPoLzc

In the latest #TheConversation article, Sofia Borushkina, a Visiting Fellow at the @eui-schuman.bsky.social, examines how the war in Ukraine and sanctions are reshaping the way Russia governs its vast territory. 🔗 https://loom.ly/mM6MIQ0

Meet the new faculty members at eui-law.bsky.social, eui-eco.bsky.social, & eui-stg.bsky.social: Megan Donaldson, Brian Amorim Cabaço, Leonard Seabrooke & Hila Shamir 🔗 https://loom.ly/nz59gM8

🏦 Max Weber Fellow @flaviacanestrini.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social explores the US sanctions adapted to increasingly globalised markets between the end of the 1970s & the 1980s. Full interview 🔗 https://loom.ly/haoyHlM

🌍 In a piece for #TheConversation, Marzia Sesini and Adrien Nicolle from the @eui-schuman.bsky.social, together with Burçin Ünel from New York University, explore what constitutes good carbon capture policymaking. Read the article 🔗 https://loom.ly/m7-KY9o

🌍Teopolina Namandje @eui-stg.bsky.social highlights a weakness in EU-Africa health partnerships — namely, the difficulty of transferring tacit expertise — and explores strategies for strengthening pharmaceutical manufacturing in Africa. 🔗 https://loom.ly/x-Prbhg

Benno Gammerl, @ricbul.bsky.social & @zsofia-v.bsky.social on the conservative discourse surrounding the Berlin Pride attack. ➡️ Read the @theconversation.com article: https://loom.ly/FWClPqI

Why can two people see the same facts about immigration and walk away believing opposite things? @jamesrdennison.bsky.social breaks it down in his new book with @andrewpgeddes.bsky.social. 🎥 https://loom.ly/89C1HUs

🗺️ In the latest #TheConversation article, Karla Žeravčić and Marco Mauer @eui-law.bsky.social examine whether calls for stronger border controls, following the border crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, align with EU law. 🔗 https://loom.ly/pqfXYZY

A Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, Diego reflects on his time at the Institute, from helping create the EUI voting advice application to the friendships and memories that stayed with him. Read Diego’s story: https://loom.ly/1CN_HPw

@eldaelda.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social on building the Media Pluralism Monitor: a decade turning media pluralism from a principle into something measurable across Europe. 🎥 Full video: https://loom.ly/c8tXzmk

100,000 followers on LinkedIn. What makes you stop scrolling? Let us know in the comments with your pick. 👇 Thanks for staying engaged with the EUI community!

Sarah Nouwen and Arnulf Becker Lorca @eui-law.bsky.social on who actually gets to call international law dead. #EUIUpFront 🎥 Full conversation: https://loom.ly/xdSo0Xc

What makes a digital product European? 🔎 Thomas Streinz and Anna Renata Pisarkiewicz @eui-schuman.bsky.social on the harder question behind digital sovereignty: is it EU headquarters, EU servers, or something else? 🎥 #EUIUpFront: https://loom.ly/7qpznT4

Alain Lempereur, @olenasnigyr.bsky.social and Bohdan Bernatskyi on power asymmetry, sanctions, and whether peace without accountability can hold. 🎥 Full conversation: https://loom.ly/ajXxBeQ

#EUIUpFront: Revital Madar and Caitlin Procter @eui-schuman.bsky.social on what academia owes Gaza: rebuilding education, supporting students, partnerships on the ground. 🎥 Full conversation: https://loom.ly/E6Q_Hg0

Daniel Prosi @eui-eco.bsky.social explains how foreign direct investment benefits host countries. His research focuses on how "forward linkages"—local businesses buying inputs and services from foreign investors—spur productivity. 🔗 https://loom.ly/uwfFAv4

PhD researcher Esteban Scuzarello @eui-sps.bsky.social studies how identity shapes who is granted asylum in Latin America, and why the process is far more random than the law suggests. Watch the full video: https://loom.ly/aBy0VRg #MyEUIResearch

Cheaper copies of biologic medicines, or a source of innovation in their own right? Velizar Kirilov from @eui-law.bsky.social focuses on biosimilars, competition law, and the coming patent cliff in our latest #MyEUIResearch story. 🔗https://loom.ly/VSN9vEw

Before she was an economist, Chengzi Yi @eui-eco.bsky.social worked in a bank in China, watching firms navigate financing and market-entry costs firsthand. That experience shaped her PhD. Watch our new #MyEUIResearch video 🎥 https://loom.ly/CGi0yko

In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV warns against "AI messianism" — the risk of a technological monolith replacing religious pluralism. Read the analysis by Francisco de Abreu Duarte @eui-stg.bsky.social on The Conversation 👉 https://loom.ly/idvr7c4

In an interview, @martakorczak.bsky.social @eui-eco.bsky.social & Urszula Markowska-Manista discuss the situation of Ukrainian children in Polish schools, stressing the cross-cultural assistants' role. 🔗https://loom.ly/wQd-7VQ

Lucía Bosoer @eui-stg.bsky.social uses Susan Strange's book 'The Retreat of the State' to explore the shifting boundaries of political authority in a world where Big Tech wields significant power, but the State shows no signs of retreat. 🔗 https://loom.ly/o2729vo

Why are women greener than men, and why doesn't it always show at the ballot box? @ingvildzinober.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social traces this pattern across 36 countries and asks what really explains it. https://loom.ly/cc5jX4E

How do you write a book with 24 scholars about a figure you cannot turn into a hero? Giorgio Riello from @eui-history.bsky.social on a new volume that uses one merchant's account as a guide to the early modern world. #EUIResearch https://loom.ly/Hbg1uaU

🏦 In this #EUIResearch interview, Anissa Bougrea, a Max Weber Fellow at the @eui-schuman.bsky.social, explores how the growing use of public funds to attract private capital is reshaping global development finance. 🔗https://loom.ly/h3Oca6I

A single 3-hour workshop measurably increased support for tough climate policies, like taxing beef and banning short-haul flights. New @eui-sps.bsky.social research in PNAS. We spoke to authors Max Bradley & Nina Lopez-Uroz 🔗 loom.ly/QJIXMpQ

🎥 "We very often ask politicians what their visions are and what their problems are, but we do not ask these same questions of public administrations and the people who lead them." Learn more about the European Public Administration Leadership Programme #EUPALP 🔎 www.eui.eu/news-hub?dis...

#EUI50: Nearly ten years in, what does the @eui-stg.bsky.social stand for? @johannamair.bsky.social, Laura Rahm & Francesco Gallo reflect, in the latest #uniquelyEUI episode. 🎥 https://loom.ly/mjKDbPY

Is international law dead? Not according to @eui-law.bsky.social Professors Sarah Nouwen and Arnulf Becker Lorca. In the new #EUIUpFront they argue it is often those who break international law who are quickest to declare it finished. 🎥 https://loom.ly/VDhd9GU

Immigration is one of Europe's most debated issues, yet relatively few people hold extreme views. In this #EUIResearch interview, James Dennison explores how attitudes towards immigration are formed and why some narratives resonate more than others. 🎥 Watch: https://loom.ly/ld-Z4SE

Are queer rights EU values? EUI researcher Emilia Vrahimi from @eui-law.bsky.social speaks about the gap between what EU law promises and who it actually protects, from crime victims in Cyprus to trans citizens at the border. 👉 https://loom.ly/il2FrD4