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Winter break at the EUI

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The EUI will be closed from 23 December until 6 January, inclusive. All activities will resume on 7 January 2021. We extend our most sincere wishes for a joyful holiday season to all, and a very Happy New Year!

EUI and Renmin University strengthen ties

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The EUI has signed a renewed partnership agreement with the Renmin University of China (RUC). The two partners aim to enhance joint education and research activities in the social sciences and humanities.

Stephanie Hofmann appointed as Joint Chair in International Relations

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Professor Stephanie Hofmann of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies will join the EUI in September 2021. She has been appointed Joint Chair in International Relations at the Department of Political and Social Sciences and the Robert Schuman Centre.

Towards a closer partnership with the European Space Agency

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The European Space Agency (ESA) and the EUI have reaffirmed and strengthened their fruitful partnership with the signature of an amended contract on the deposit of ESA’s historical archives at the Historical Archives of the European Union.

The Charter of Fundamental Rights' travaux préparatoires

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On the 20th anniversary of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the EUI Library announces the publication of the open access eBook The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: the travaux préparatoires and selected documents. The volume was edited by LAW researchers Niall Coghlan and Marc Steiert.

Simon Hix joins the European University Institute

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Professor Simon Hix will take up the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at the Department of Political and Social Sciences in September 2021. Hix is currently Pro-Director for Research and Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

COVID-19: Important information for the EUI community and visitors

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The EUI has implemented numerous measures to counter the spread of COVID-19. Read more about the latest information and guidelines for the EUI community and visitors, and find out about the Institute's COVID-19 Knowledge Hub.

Publications


CADMUS

EU financing for next decade: beyond the MFF 2021-2027 and the next generation EU

edited by Brigid Laffan and Alfredo de Feo

This volume offers a global comment on all the issues touched by the Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027 and Next Generation EU, providing insights into the ideas of key actors and experts on the practical functioning of the MFF and their reflections on its future development.

Back in fashion : western fashion from the middle ages to the present

by Giorgio Riello

In this volume, the author takes up eight centuries of western fashion, offering specific treatment of key topics in the history of fashion: its evolution in urban environments, sumptuary laws, consumerism, couture, sexual emancipation, subcultures and more.

Revisiting natural resources in the Middle East and North Africa

edited by Luigi Narbone

The struggle for natural resources has been central in the Middle East and North Africa, and it has also contributed to destabilising it. This book, available in open access, explores the role of natural resources in reshaping geopolitics, driving and perpetuating conflicts and deepening socioeconomic inequality in the MENA.

Seconde nature: rematérialiser les sciences de Bacon à Tocqueville

by Stéphane van Damme

In this volume, intellectual historian Stéphane van Damme, challenges the foundations of the history of science.  By renewing the dialogue with anthropology, he invites the discipline to re-establish itself on other, more humanistic bases.

Resisting Europe: practices of contestation in the Mediterranean Middle East

by Raffaella Del Sarto and Simone Tholens (eds) 

This book examines the diverse modalities by which states in the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa (MENA) reject, resist, challenge, modify, or entirely change European policies and preferences and provides rich empirical evidence of these contestation practices in the fields of migration and border control, banking and finance, democracy promotion, and telecommunications.