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Why cheaper flights can cost taxpayers more, with Miguel Blanco Cocho

In this #MyEUIResearch video, PhD researcher Miguel Blanco Cocho explores how transport subsidies can unintentionally raise airline prices. His research examines how better policy design could reduce public spending while improving access for citizens.

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Facing the facts: facial recognition technology and the future of journalism

In this interview, Natalia Menéndez González and Sofia Verza discuss the use of facial recognition technology by news outlets and investigative journalists, focusing on the tensions it can create around freedom of expression, privacy, data protection, and defence rights.

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Rebuilding under fire: time and reconstruction in wartime Ukraine

In this #EUIResearch interview, Miranda Loli introduces the concept of “temporal boundary work” to analyse how Ukrainian governance processes are reconfigured to navigate what would otherwise be paradoxical: rebuilding during an ongoing war.

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Learning from Chornobyl? Handling nuclear risks during peace and war

Angela Liberatore

In this EUIdeas piece, Science Diplomacy Fellow Angela Liberatore reflects on the legacy of the Chernobyl/Chornobyl nuclear disaster and how it has influenced policy, crisis response, and wartime concerns over the 40 years since the accident. ...

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Energy efficiency: putting households at the heart of climate policy

Sofia Borushkina

Energy efficiency policy is often designed as if households were savvy investors motivated by climate goals. Sofia Borushkina explains why that assumption breaks down and why lived experience should be the starting point for efficient climate action....

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Europe has the tools but lacks will to use them, EUSI Policy Dialogue in Nicosia

Bringing together ministers, policymakers and defence experts, the third EUSI Policy Dialogue explored whether Europe’s growing defence ambitions are being matched by political commitment. Held in Nicosia on 27 May 2026, discussions focused on the widening gap between strategic aspirations and implementation.

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Committee of the Regions fonds enriched with new archival transfer

The Historical Archives received a significant archival transfer from the Committee of the Regions, including its first set of born-digital files. The fonds is a valuable resource for scholarly research on the Committee of the Regions’ contribution to European governance and integration.

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