Are Europeans truly free?
Trump's coercion & Putin's aggression revealed the uncomfortable truth: Europe depends on others' goodwill for its energy, platforms, and defence.
Join us for an ACES lecture with @alemanno.bsky.social to discuss what seizing this historic moment would require.
"We Europeans are far less free than we think." EU law scholar Alberto Alemanno on energy, platforms, and security dependencies and what Europe must do about it. Hear him live at the ACES end-of-year lecture, June 8 🎓
Hosting a seminar on researching at the intersection of climate & democracy 🌍
Lea Becker, Tessa Trapp & Miriam Heipertz will share their methodological approaches, followed by an open discussion on what academia needs in times of climatic urgency.
📅 28 May, 15:00–17:00
📍 Roeterseilandcampus
@carolinedegruyter.bsky.social @uva.nl
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📑🔎New article: 'Gender insensitive parliaments: blind spots in anti-harassment parliamentary policies in Europe' in Comparative European Politics. Very inspiring collaboration with my colleague Sofia Wickberg. 🙏 @acesuva.bsky.social for the generous seed grant 👇
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ACES hosted Caroline de Gruyter's book presentation "Zondagskinderen" at a fully packed SPUI25. Her core question: Europeans became the world's greatest pacifists because peace felt permanent. But what happens when it doesn't? With war back on the continent, this book couldn't be more timely.
Are Europeans truly free? At our latest ACES lecture, @alemanno.bsky.social (HEC Paris, founder of @thegoodlobby.wsocial.eu) argued that Europe's dependence on external systems exposes a fundamental gap between perceived and actual freedom.
Are we Europeans truly free?
The twin shocks of Trump’s coercion and Putin’s aggression have delivered an uncomfortable answer: we are significantly less free than we believed, says @alemanno.bsky.social, Jean Monnet Professor at HEC Paris and Democracy Fellow at @harvard.edu. Join us for his talk!
