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A man with short grey hair and a man with short dark hair clasp hands standing front of the Canadian and French flags on a sunny day.

From French outpost to Euro-Canadian corridor? Why Carney and Macron met in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Paco Milhiet, Institut catholique de Paris (ICP)

Why banning AI in the classroom will not be enough to remedy poor reading skills in a post-literary society

Michael FitzGerald, European University Institute

Mark Carney delivers a speech in front an EU flag.

What might Canada’s EU ‘associate membership’ look like, and is it even a possibility?

Kenneth Armstrong, University of Cambridge

Museums on prescription: how cultural activities are becoming crucial to the public health debate

Maria Elena Buslacchi, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)

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How a traditional Nordic way of eating could help you live longer

Daniel Borch Ibsen, Aarhus University; Christina C. Dahm, Aarhus University, and Michael Fridén, Aarhus University

Thanks, Trump: Why Canada may become the European Union’s first ever ‘associate member’

Stewart Prest, University of British Columbia

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Pedro Sánchez, with representatives of the State Security Forces at the Tarajal border (Ceuta), looking at screens showing the border

How Spain’s socialist-led government fumbled the Ceuta crisis, and put itself on the back foot

Asbel Bohigues, Universitat de València

How war and sanctions are reshaping how Russia governs its vast territory

Sofia Borushkina, European University Institute; Monash University

PISA 2025 rankings: are we asking the right questions about schooling?

Claude Diebolt, Université de Strasbourg and Romain Diebolt, University of Southampton

Could victory for the AfD spell the end of wind farms in Germany?

Bastien Fond, Humboldt University of Berlin; Université de Caen Normandie

Fields of rapeseed in the foreground against a backdrop of housing with wind turbines in the distance.

How Germany’s far-right AfD is courting the voters it promises to deport

Deniz Torcu, IE University

A group of women wearing headscarves walk down the street in Berlin.

Several astronauts are debating on stage before the summit participants.

Europe can’t achieve space sovereignty alone. Here’s why

Audrey Rouyre, Montpellier Business School; European Academy of Management (EURAM)

Meta is changing Instagram and Facebook to protect teens’ mental health. Are the new measures backed up by science?

Ingrid Mosquera Gende, UNIR - Universidad Internacional de La Rioja ; José A. Morales García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Luis M. Rojo Bofill, Universitat de València

Lonely seafarer on board of the cargo ship, he is looking into the open sea thinking about his home and family.

Strait of Hormuz crisis: how danger and uncertainty can affect the mental health of seafarers

Patricia Kennedy, University College Cork; Anita Rayegani, University of Hamburg, and Eka Siradze, Tbilisi State University

Sweden elections: why immigrants are underrepresented at the polls

Derek Stanford Hutcheson, Malmö University

Voters queue to cast their votes in Sweden's general election outside a polling station.

A Swedish ghost story

Katarzyna Herd, Lund University

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Sweden’s prison population has doubled in a decade, and is set to spike even further – here’s why

Tova Bennet, Lund University and Sigrid Nikka, Lund University

Image of the Swedish flag flying behind a barbed wire fence

Europe’s e-waste is a valuable resource – let’s not throw it away

Nils Pauliks, Leiden University

old electronic devices in pile for recycling

France: the far-right’s proposed headscarf ban in public places breaches religious freedom and anti-discrimination principles

Lauren Bakir, Université de Strasbourg

People react to exit polls during the far-right Alternative for Germany election party.

Germany: why the AfD won in Saxony-Anhalt – and what happens next

Ed Turner, Aston University

A woman is exercising on the floor of her home whilst looking at a laptop

Is calisthenics as good as weight training? Here’s what the science says

Alejandro J. Almenar Arasanz, Universidad San Jorge and Marta Diarte Oliva, Universidad San Jorge

A person with a megaphone addressing a large crowd

Populists claim to speak for ‘the people’ – but who are they actually talking about?

Clara Juarez Miro, Universitat de Barcelona

Immigration in Sweden: how the country went from one of Europe’s most welcoming, to one of its most restrictive

Henrik Emilsson, Malmö University

A line of people on stairs at a train station

How ‘egalitarian’ Sweden became more comfortable with wealth

Håkan Johansson, Lund University and Axel Vikström, Lund University

aerial view of island chain and assembled yachts off the coast of stockholm, sweden.

A mother and her son at the doctor’s office

Why cancer affects children differently to adults

Lydia Begoña Horndler Gil, Universidad San Jorge

Fire and floods are usually treated as separate hazards. Portugal’s Pinhal Interior shows why they are part of the same cycle

Afonso Nuno Martins, University of Beira Interior

People taking measures and samples in the forest.

Galileo, Copernicus, Cleansky, IRIS² must work together to secure Europe’s place in the space race

Audrey Rouyre, Montpellier Business School; European Academy of Management (EURAM) and Anne-Sophie Fernandez, Université de Montpellier; European Academy of Management (EURAM)

Two engineers standing in front of equipment from the ExoMars programme.

Noise exposure is linked to chronic stress and heart disease. It’s time to make peace and quiet a public health right

Julia Almazán Catalán, Universidad CEU San Pablo and Carmen Morais Moreno, Universidad CEU San Pablo

A woman covers her ears in the middle of the streets of a city

Climate change images are getting scarier – could fear help drive action?

Joshua Garland, Lund University

Why France’s illustrious history of cheesemaking is full of holes

Dominique Frère, Université Bretagne Sud (UBS)

Man in his bed having trouble sleeping wearing a smart sleep band

Brain-reading wearables will soon be ordinary. What will this mean for the new generation of ‘neurotechnological natives’?

José M. Muñoz, IE University

People resting on benches in a city park.

Ceuta crisis: anti-migrant ‘invasion’ rhetoric threatens Europe’s food supply and economy

Diana Tung, Universitat de Barcelona and Seth M. Holmes, Universitat de Barcelona; ICREA; University of California, Berkeley

The pastry paradox: why are the Danes slimmer than Britons?

Vassiliki Sinopoulou, University of Lancashire

More trees are needed to cool down European cities in heatwaves – but they must be planted nearer to homes

Thami Croeser, RMIT University and Simon Hodder, Loughborough University

Puerta del Sol square in Madrid with people walking across the square.

Bees view the world in surprisingly different ways – understanding this could inspire new technology

Elisa Rigosi, Lund University and David O'Carroll, Lund University

A female blue-banded bee with large eyes gripping a plant stem.

Denmark versus UK: which country gets more health for their money?

Subhash Pokhrel, Brunel University of London

Autonomous weapons can select targets without human help – now is the time for binding rules

Elke Schwarz, Queen Mary University of London and Jessica Dorsey, Utrecht University

A rotogravure of a hysterectomy being performed by French surgeon Paul Segond at Paris' Salpêtrière hospital.

Endometriosis: a long-ignored disease, despite symptoms that can be traced back to ancient times

Nadjib Mohamed Mokraoui, Inserm; Université Paris-Saclay

Palaces and the Pope: the fascinating story of how Renaissance Rome was rebuilt

Alyssa Rusonik, HEC Paris Business School

Europe needs to fight back against US software dominance – and now is the time

Francesco Grillo, Bocconi University

How climate change affects different modes of transport – from roads to railways

Vahid Aryanpur, University College Cork

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A black fungus is thriving in the midst of Ireland’s whiskey boom – we need to know more about it

Jenny Lawler, Dublin City University

Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference in Kyiv.

Why holding elections now may not be the best safeguard for Ukrainian democracy

Derek Stanford Hutcheson, Malmö University

Childhood sleep apnoea: when snoring is more than a noisy night

Mirja Quante, University of Tübingen

Little girl asleep in bed with mouth open

Nearly 30 years after Erasmus, university alliances are reshaping Europe’s higher education landscape but still lack visibility

Isabelle Corbett-Etchevers, Grenoble IAE Graduate School of Management; Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Graduates gather in academic dress and mortarboard caps on Brescia’s Piazza della loggia.

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Roberta Metsola speaking into a microphone at a table, with Ursula von der Leyen sitting to her right

Women in politics face more personal, sexualised attacks than men, a recent analysis shows

Arianna Sala, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Europe recycles just 12% of the materials it uses. Here’s how training can accelerate the transition to a circular economy

Marina Schmitz, IEDC-Bled School of Management; European Academy of Management (EURAM); Mirjana Matešić, IEDC-Bled School of Management, and Mislav Ante Omazić, IEDC-Bled School of Management

Three discoveries that transformed how we understand nutrition

José Miguel Soriano del Castillo, Universitat de València

A doctor points to a model of the human digestive system

Left-handed people tend to be left-leaning voters

Jérémie Bertrand, IÉSEG School of Management; Caroline Perrin, and Laurent Weill, Université de Strasbourg

Close-up of a voter's hand casting a ballot into a ballot box.

Why it’s so hard to apologise sincerely in a foreign language

Irini Mavrou, Universidad Nebrija; UCL and Lucía Martín Pérez, Universidad Nebrija

A technician repairing a laptop with a screwdriver

The EU’s repair policies are changing the way tech is designed

Christoforos Spiliotopoulos, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Portrait shot of Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, at a podium with his hands held out.

Volodymyr Zelensky’s other war: Ukraine’s endless struggle with corruption

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy

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The free EU database that tells you if an appliance is actually green

Lala Rukh, University of Galway; Atlantic Technological University

The Mocha monopoly: how Yemen’s dominance of the global coffee trade birthed the Houthi rebels

Ibrahim Al-Marashi, IE University; California State University San Marcos

The law of the innocents: Ireland’s medieval precursor to the Geneva conventions

Chris Doyle, University of Galway

Stained glass depiction of Saint Adomnán, Abbott of Iona.

What has the return-to-office movement taught us? People, not technology help companies get ahead

Dr Dino Dogan, European Academy of Management (EURAM)

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From French outpost to Euro-Canadian corridor? Why Carney and Macron met in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

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Climate change images are getting scarier – could fear help drive action?

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Brain-reading wearables will soon be ordinary. What will this mean for the new generation of ‘neurotechnological natives’?

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The pastry paradox: why are the Danes slimmer than Britons?

More trees are needed to cool down European cities in heatwaves – but they must be planted nearer to homes

Bees view the world in surprisingly different ways – understanding this could inspire new technology

Denmark versus UK: which country gets more health for their money?

Autonomous weapons can select targets without human help – now is the time for binding rules

Endometriosis: a long-ignored disease, despite symptoms that can be traced back to ancient times

Palaces and the Pope: the fascinating story of how Renaissance Rome was rebuilt

Europe needs to fight back against US software dominance – and now is the time

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