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Dati Bendo European Union , 2026
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10+1 Takeaways From Von der Leyen’s State of the Union

The State of the Union address (SOTEU), delivered annually by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, is a pivotal moment for outlining the European ...
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World Trade Center during 9/11. Photo source: YU-bin / Flickr, Public Domain Mark
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The Failure to Stop 9/11 Was a Catastrophe. But Even Bigger Mistakes Were Made in Its Aftermath

The September 11 2001 terrorist attacks were unlike anything the world had seen before. For America, and the watching world, September 11 (or 9/11) seemed ...
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Hungarian Prim Minester Peter Magyar meets President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, 29 April 2026. Photo: © European Union, 2026 — EC/Dati Bendo — CC BY 4.0
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Why Migration May Break the Hungarian Government’s Streak

Since former Prime Minister Viktor Orban was ousted as Hungary’s Prime Minister after 16 years, Hungary has been in somewhat of a ‘honeymoon’ phase: new ...
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Ursula von der Leyen, on the left, and Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, on the right (Photo: Aurore Martignoni / European Union / Wikimedia Commons)
Commentary

European Union in the Time of Disruptions: Union Only in Name?

The inside is more or less known while the outside is unknown, different, exciting. This is a very basic observance but this keeps many things ...
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Democracy in Danger Globally, Especially in the U.S.

The V-Dem Institute downgraded the U.S. from “liberal democracy” to “electoral democracy”, which happened due to the unlikely erosion of democratic institutions among the well-established ...
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Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine on 17 August 2025 (Photo: Dati Bendo / European Union, 2025 / EC - Audiovisual Service)
Commentary

European War Fatigue May be Growing – But Ukraine Could Buy Time

As the Ukraine war approaches its four-and-a-half year milestone, the sustainability of the coalition of support for Kyiv has once again become a key question ...
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Biologists Should Articulate Their Position on AI

In June, a community of mostly mathematicians released the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, an articulation of the values they hope to preserve ...
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Javier Ortega, Secretary General of VOX, visits the Ceuta border fence one day after the mass breach, during which attacks were carried out against state security forces, on July 28, 2018 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Commentary

The Ceuta Border Crisis is About Geopolitics, Not Just Migration

According to a European Parliament resolution adopted in June 2021, Moroccan police temporarily eased controls at the border of Ceuta, the Spanish enclave of about ...
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