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By Karol Cichocki
It was a rainy summer day in early August 2023 when the twenty-three-year-old Hadi from Afghanistan stood next to me and my friends on the outskirts of the primeval Białowieża Forest in Eastern Poland, which spans the border with Belarus.
By Rozenn Heim
The EU and Angola have committed to fostering more transparent and sustainable investment through SIFA. Still, in emerging sectors like green hydrogen, SIFA alone may not be enough to make investment both viable and lasting.
By Emilia Salvanou
Beyond the immediate humanitarian catastrophe lies a deeper struggle: not just over competing narratives, but over the very politics of grief—over whose deaths are grievable, whose pain is legible, and whose history can be invoked in the present.
By Craig Willis
Regulating social media platforms has been a salient topic for many years and in the European context has already led to European Union-level and national level legislation attempting to enforce certain standards and safeguards.
By Gulsen Dogan
The European Union (EU) faces a complex migration conundrum, requiring a delicate equilibrium between diplomatic endeavors, human rights considerations, and national interests
By Beatriks Rabinovych, Olha Lushankina, Gökce Yurdakul and Jonna Rock More than three years have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. In response, the European Union swiftly activated the Temporary Protection Directive for the first time since its adoption in 2001. In March 2025, around 6.37 million displaced Ukrainians were registered across Europe. In Germany, the country with the largest number of registered refugees, there were around 1.2 million as of 31 May
By Dina Greenberg
In each of the cities and small villages I visited, remnants of war—in the form of crumbling and bullet-riddled buildings—served as reminders of the recent past, even as new schools, condos, and office towers had filled the landscape.
This is an ongoing project that I have been working on since the full-scale Russian invasion began in 2022. It serves as visual evidence of Russian war crimes targeting civilians. The photographs were taken all across Ukraine.
Campus Spotlight: NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
Pushing the Boundaries of Europe – NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies’ academic interests extend around the globe and to worlds beyond, from energy and climate policy, to far right politics, to sovereignty in maritime search and rescue, to outer space and extraterrestrial life.
