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So you want to rejoin the EU, eh?

The United Kingdom is debating whether to ask to rejoin the EU. It would be foolish of the EU to rush things: walk into a typical British pub or strike up a conversation in the suburbs, and you won’t have to wait long to hear that the EU is the problem, that the people were betrayed, that ”this isn’t the Brexit we voted for”, or that the NHS would be thriving if only the promised money had arrived. Curiously [...]

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Memes

SOTEU over the years

Another SOTEU is just around the corner and it’s great for SEO to write an article about it just a few hours before it starts. It is hard to explain what SOTEU means when you work behind the scenes: there are always some

Geopolitics

How Georgia’s European Dream Turned Into a Nightmare

This is a long reportage about Georgia and its deeply concerning situation, it mixes personal memories with interviews of political leaders. You [...]

Interview

Born to run (and return) – a conversation with Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Pt. II

In the previous part of the interview, we followed Toomas Hendrik Ilves from his youth in the US to his work as a journalist in Munich, until he [...]

Interview

A Lynx Off the Map - a conversation with Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Pt. I

In Europe, few people have had as much impact on tech governance and the integration of the Baltic countries as Toomas Hendrik Ilves, professor [...]

Memes

WORDLEU

One five-letter acronym. Six guesses. Show you’re ready for EPSO.

Interview

Pour faire le portrait de la MEP Loiseau

Continuing my quest for ”cool people of the European Parliament”, I present you Nathalie Loiseau, former diplomat, former director of ENA [...]

Interview

The Diplomacy of the (Olympic) Javelins - a conversation with Baiba Braže

It is quite rare to find ministers among the politicians who share my memes on social media; Baiba Braže, incumbent Latvian minister of foreign [...]

Interview

Kallas of Duty - a conversation with the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs

Kaja Kallas has been high on my list of cool people to meet for a couple of years. Not only did she inspire lots of memes, but she also [...]

Interview

Of Dinosaurs, Stars and Radio Receivers, a conversation with Andrius Kubilius

Defence and Space are very hot topics these days; at EU level they are energetically managed by Andrius Kubilius, a sixty-eight years old [...]

Research

The nitrogen reVolt, decarbonizing ammonia production in the EU

At DG MEME we keep hearing that the EU does not invest in research and that we lose our best minds to other continents. So I decided to go out [...]

Memes

The EU Atomic Bomb

Have you ever had that feeling of living in a continent that is not entirely ruled by insane people? Cool, then you’re probably in Europe, in Australia or in Antarctica. In a world full of mad autocrats it is only

Geopolitics

Elections on thin ice - a Journey to Greenland, the Outpost of Democracy

I started reading about Greenland after it made the headlines a few months ago, and I found it very fascinating: it is one of the biggest [...]