The EU increasingly recognises that environmental degradation, including climate change, forces people to move, but recognition is not the same as protection. As legal pathways remain absent, can EU law step up to protect those forced to move due to environmental disasters?...

EU leaders want a stronger trade toolbox. New instruments are justified to reduce dependencies and address systemic distortions, but for economic coercion, Europe already has the tool it needs. The real constraint is political, not technical....

Shifting blame onto international organisations for negative outcomes is generally expected to be a common strategy of national politicians. But research reveals that leaders use this tactic far less often — and far less successfully — than we think....