President Biden at the White House on Thursday. His administration has several high-profile vacancies in health and science positions. President Biden, who came into office vowing to “reinvigorate our national science and technology strategy,” is now facing a leadership vacuum…
As the geopolitical crisis over Ukraine enters its fourth month, tensions are higher than ever. A series of top-level diplomatic initiatives in early 20
This article is part of our special report How participation and digitalisation can help implement EU democracy. Citizens contributing to the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), the EU’s democracy engagement project, have made recommendations to widen the rule…
“Democracy” is the currency of hypocrisy in today’s America. No politician or pundit seems able to get enough of it. Most of the babble is about “our precious democracy” and the threats to its institutional survival. But amid all the…
Hundreds of researchers and organisations across Europe have repeated their demands for the EU to quickly confirm the association status of the UK to Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme. The ‘Stick to Science’ campaign, launched earlier this…
After the collapse of the Afghan government last August, the only significant challenge to the Taliban’s primitive totalitarianism was mounted by women in big cities — the capital Kabul, Mazar-e Sharif in the north, and Herat in the west, among…
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On Tuesday, the European Commission launched its EUChipsAct to bring together research, design & testing capacities for microchips. ⛔ No chips = no digital. Microchips are everywhere – from smartphones to electric scooters to factories. Our #EUChipsAct will…
The president intends to use the Afghan central bank’s assets to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 200
Democracy was born in towns and cities, and local leaders are closer to the people than national governments, Matúš Vallo, the mayor of Bratislava, told EURACTIV Slovakia. Liberal democracy is going through a challenging time. Populism, declining media freedom, minority…