The EU explicitly promotes bicycling for the sake of health, climate and jobs. But as Policy Leader Fellow Daiva Repečkaitė notes, poorly monitored funding schemes and incompetent route planning can do more harm than good.

Making EU funding available on the condition that the recipient monitors the money’s impact on men and women has become the new normal. STG Research Fellow Costanza Hermanin and Project Associate Carlotta Osti propose some further actions the EU could take to give even more clout to gender equality measures.

What intentions does China have with its investments in the Western Balkans, and to what degree should the EU get involved? Policy Leader Fellow Michael Charokopos takes a look, and draws conclusions on how the EU might facilitate better outcomes for all involved.

Why is the pandemic an EU problem? For Lucas Schramm, high levels of integration and a desire for European solidarity have brought the novel coronavirus crisis to the EU’s doorstep.

Why were the Dutch so reluctant to endorse a post-pandemic economic recovery package? Jean Monnet Fellow G. Matteo Vaccaro-Incisa takes a look at some of the underlying motivations driving Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s reticence.

If European leaders are to save the EU economy when they meet on April 23rd, they need to think outside the box.

In the wake of the recent and rather fruitless Multiannual Financial Framework summit earlier this month, Lucas Schramm, EUI Ph.D. Researcher in Political and Social Sciences, analyses the difficult EU budget negotiations and argues that richer member states should be prepared to shoulder more of the costs in 2021-2027.

Now nearly 30 years on from the Dublin Convention, Historian and EUI Max Weber Fellow Gaia Lott highlights missed opportunities to integrate burden sharing into European asylum policy.

Political scientists Ellen Immergut and Andra Roescu argue that the emphasis in the last European elections on big issues such as terrorism, the environment and immigration drew attention away from what is salient for most voters: a social Europe