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The video of last night’s powerful event with Steve Crawshaw is now available.
Reflecting on his book, “Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice”, Crawshaw joined Prof @denisakost.bsky.social for a thought-provoking conversation.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-D6...
Reflecting on his book, “Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice”, Crawshaw joined Prof @denisakost.bsky.social for a thought-provoking conversation.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-D6...
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The video of last night’s powerful event with Steve Crawshaw is now available.
Reflecting on his book, “Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice”, Crawshaw joined Prof @denisakost.bsky.social for a thought-provoking conversation.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-D6...
Reflecting on his book, “Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice”, Crawshaw joined Prof @denisakost.bsky.social for a thought-provoking conversation.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-D6...
Last night, we started getting into the holiday spirit with our annual Festive Drinks for our students, faculty, staff, and alumni to get together and celebrate the (near) end of term!🎄
Seeing campus glittering in fairy lights makes these dark winter months that much easier to get through! ❄️✨
Seeing campus glittering in fairy lights makes these dark winter months that much easier to get through! ❄️✨
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Last night, we started getting into the holiday spirit with our annual Festive Drinks for our students, faculty, staff, and alumni to get together and celebrate the (near) end of term!🎄
Seeing campus glittering in fairy lights makes these dark winter months that much easier to get through! ❄️✨
Seeing campus glittering in fairy lights makes these dark winter months that much easier to get through! ❄️✨
🇬🇧 🇪🇺 In a new @lseideas.bsky.social report, Iain Begg distinguishes and critically analyses three broad categories – economic, social, and governance – of Brexit’s impact on the UK and EU, examining the uneven effects on various economic sectors and groups 👇
Brexit – A critical audit in the cold light of day
Brexit has been a decade-long process rather than discrete events, and has had enduring effects on the United Kingdom’s economy and society, as well as affecting former partners in the European…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🇬🇧 🇪🇺 In a new @lseideas.bsky.social report, Iain Begg distinguishes and critically analyses three broad categories – economic, social, and governance – of Brexit’s impact on the UK and EU, examining the uneven effects on various economic sectors and groups 👇
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Almost a decade on from the Brexit referendum, a new EU-UK relationship is now emerging that focuses on pragmatic cooperation rather than integration.
✍ Vera Spyrakou @lse-ei.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍ Vera Spyrakou @lse-ei.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Functional, not federal – why pragmatism now defines the EU-UK relationship - EUROPP
Almost a decade on from the Brexit referendum, a new EU-UK relationship is now emerging that focuses on pragmatic cooperation rather than integration.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Almost a decade on from the Brexit referendum, a new EU-UK relationship is now emerging that focuses on pragmatic cooperation rather than integration.
✍ Vera Spyrakou @lse-ei.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍ Vera Spyrakou @lse-ei.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
In a new article based on his undergraduate thesis, our PhD candidate @lucasiepmann.bsky.social investigates whether post-Brexit British-German relations can be understood as “international friendship,” employing a novel framework in international relations theory👇
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www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
“Freundship”? The deepening of British-German relations from pre- to post-Brexit
Our PhD candidate Luca Siepmann has published a new article in German Politics & Society based on his undergraduate dissertation, which investigates whether post-Brexit British-German relations can…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
In a new article based on his undergraduate thesis, our PhD candidate @lucasiepmann.bsky.social investigates whether post-Brexit British-German relations can be understood as “international friendship,” employing a novel framework in international relations theory👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
In new research, Dr @donatodc.bsky.social and co-authors challenge the notion that regulation and industrial policy are inherently antithetical; instead the Commission uses its regulatory authority over state aid to indirectly steer member states' industrial policies👇
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www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Regulatory means for interventionist ends: GBER and the transformation of the EU state aid regime
Despite its new-found penchant for market interventionism, the European Union (EU) is often portrayed as lacking the fiscal and administrative capacity to conduct industrial policy. The EU can…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In new research, Dr @donatodc.bsky.social and co-authors challenge the notion that regulation and industrial policy are inherently antithetical; instead the Commission uses its regulatory authority over state aid to indirectly steer member states' industrial policies👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
We are delighted to launch a brand-new LinkedIn newsletter! 📰 🚀
Discover the "EI Dispatch" - a monthly round-up of the European Institute's activities across its research, education, and public engagement.
Enjoy our first edition and subscribe for more below!👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Discover the "EI Dispatch" - a monthly round-up of the European Institute's activities across its research, education, and public engagement.
Enjoy our first edition and subscribe for more below!👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
EI Dispatch
Sign up to a monthly round-up of the European Institute's activities across its research, education, and public engagement.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We are delighted to launch a brand-new LinkedIn newsletter! 📰 🚀
Discover the "EI Dispatch" - a monthly round-up of the European Institute's activities across its research, education, and public engagement.
Enjoy our first edition and subscribe for more below!👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Discover the "EI Dispatch" - a monthly round-up of the European Institute's activities across its research, education, and public engagement.
Enjoy our first edition and subscribe for more below!👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
We are still buzzing from Tuesday night’s Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture with Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister (1990–1997) 🇬🇧
🎥 Video and podcast out soon!
🎥 Video and podcast out soon!
November 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
We are still buzzing from Tuesday night’s Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture with Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister (1990–1997) 🇬🇧
🎥 Video and podcast out soon!
🎥 Video and podcast out soon!
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👇 Looking forward to contributing to this important discussion! @lse-ei.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
👇 Looking forward to contributing to this important discussion! @lse-ei.bsky.social
Last chance to book! Join us next Monday and Tuesday to learn more about our postgraduate degree programmes! 👇
📣 Applications to our MSc and PhD programmes are now open for 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆!
Join us in 3 weeks for our 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 to discover postgraduate study in the European Institute.
👉 Register: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Join us in 3 weeks for our 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 to discover postgraduate study in the European Institute.
👉 Register: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Information sessions for prospective students
Join us for our online information sessions at the European Institute to learn more about our postgraduate offering across our MSc and PhD programmes.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Last chance to book! Join us next Monday and Tuesday to learn more about our postgraduate degree programmes! 👇
🇪🇺 In their new research, @mkleine.bsky.social and @lucasschramm91.bsky.social analyse decision-making and norm enforcement in the European Council, the leaders' club and one of the most important - yet vulnerable - EU institutions.
Discover it below 👇
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Discover it below 👇
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Taming of the shrews? The (non-)enforcement of informal norms in the European Council
The European Council is arguably one of the European Union’s (EU) most dynamic decision-making bodies. Both scholars and practitioners attribute its effectiveness to an informal norm of diffuse…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🇪🇺 In their new research, @mkleine.bsky.social and @lucasschramm91.bsky.social analyse decision-making and norm enforcement in the European Council, the leaders' club and one of the most important - yet vulnerable - EU institutions.
Discover it below 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Discover it below 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Our PhD candidate Nilüfer Günes's new research examines 19th century reforms in Iraq and Syria in an effort to rectify the Eurocentric spatio-temporal ordering of events and unveil the centrality of the West in historical narratives of the region👇
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www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
The marginalisation of the Ottoman Empire's state formation legacy in the Middle East: a case of Eurocentrism?
Our PhD candidate Nilüfer Günes has recently published a new article in Turkish Studies, which examines nineteenth-century reforms in Iraq and Syria in an effort to rectify the Eurocentric…
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November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Our PhD candidate Nilüfer Günes's new research examines 19th century reforms in Iraq and Syria in an effort to rectify the Eurocentric spatio-temporal ordering of events and unveil the centrality of the West in historical narratives of the region👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
In a new @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social blog, our Visiting Fellow Dr Vera Spyrakou argues that, to renew the global promise of multilateralism, the EU must act as both guardian and reformer.
Discover it below 👇
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Discover it below 👇
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The EU and the UN – can Europe revive multilateralism in a divided world?
The United Nations and the EU are both projects of idealism struggling to adapt to a world defined by realpolitik, writes Vera Spyrakou. Yet Europe’s success in turning former rivals into partners…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
In a new @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social blog, our Visiting Fellow Dr Vera Spyrakou argues that, to renew the global promise of multilateralism, the EU must act as both guardian and reformer.
Discover it below 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Discover it below 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
🇬🇧🇨🇳 We were delighted to welcome Professor Yijia Jing, Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy at Fudan University, and his team, back in London to meet our new LSE-Fudan students completing their first year here at LSE.
👉 Explore our global programmes: lse.ac.uk/ei/study
👉 Explore our global programmes: lse.ac.uk/ei/study
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🇬🇧🇨🇳 We were delighted to welcome Professor Yijia Jing, Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy at Fudan University, and his team, back in London to meet our new LSE-Fudan students completing their first year here at LSE.
👉 Explore our global programmes: lse.ac.uk/ei/study
👉 Explore our global programmes: lse.ac.uk/ei/study
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📣 Join us for a public event hosted by LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies!
🗓️ Wed, 12 Nov | 🕕 6PM
📍LSE | Reception to follow
🎤 Panel on how marginalised youth use art & co-production to transform exclusion into engagement in Türkiye, South Africa & Uganda.
🗓️ Wed, 12 Nov | 🕕 6PM
📍LSE | Reception to follow
🎤 Panel on how marginalised youth use art & co-production to transform exclusion into engagement in Türkiye, South Africa & Uganda.
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
📣 Join us for a public event hosted by LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies!
🗓️ Wed, 12 Nov | 🕕 6PM
📍LSE | Reception to follow
🎤 Panel on how marginalised youth use art & co-production to transform exclusion into engagement in Türkiye, South Africa & Uganda.
🗓️ Wed, 12 Nov | 🕕 6PM
📍LSE | Reception to follow
🎤 Panel on how marginalised youth use art & co-production to transform exclusion into engagement in Türkiye, South Africa & Uganda.
Reposted by LSE European Institute
The UN and the EU are both projects of idealism struggling to adapt to a world defined by realpolitik.
Yet Europe’s success in turning rivals into partners gives it unique authority to develop a new multilateralism.
✍ Vera Spyrakou @lse-ei.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Yet Europe’s success in turning rivals into partners gives it unique authority to develop a new multilateralism.
✍ Vera Spyrakou @lse-ei.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Can Europe revive multilateralism in a divided world?
The UN and EU are both projects of idealism struggling to adapt to a world defined by realpolitik, but a reformed multilateralism could yet bridge divisions.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The UN and the EU are both projects of idealism struggling to adapt to a world defined by realpolitik.
Yet Europe’s success in turning rivals into partners gives it unique authority to develop a new multilateralism.
✍ Vera Spyrakou @lse-ei.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Yet Europe’s success in turning rivals into partners gives it unique authority to develop a new multilateralism.
✍ Vera Spyrakou @lse-ei.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Our Visiting Senior Fellow Dr Thomas Aubrey @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social has published a new article in The European Legacy, which discusses the decline of the Liberal International Order and why liberals should embrace it.
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Read more 👇
Why liberals should embrace the demise of the ‘liberal international order’
Our Visiting Senior Fellow Dr Thomas Aubrey has published a new article in The European Legacy, which discusses the decline of the Liberal International Order and why liberals should embrace it.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Our Visiting Senior Fellow Dr Thomas Aubrey @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social has published a new article in The European Legacy, which discusses the decline of the Liberal International Order and why liberals should embrace it.
Read more 👇
Read more 👇
Happy #Halloween from our in-house witch expert, Dr Natalie Grace! 🧙🎃
In this video, our European Institute Events and Engagement Manager shares some spooky secrets about witches in Europe from her PhD in “Witchcraft in Print in Early Modern Germany and England” 🦇
In this video, our European Institute Events and Engagement Manager shares some spooky secrets about witches in Europe from her PhD in “Witchcraft in Print in Early Modern Germany and England” 🦇
Happy #Halloween from the European Institute! On Witchcraft in Early Modern Germany and England 🧙♀️
Happy Halloween from our in-house witch expert, Dr Natalie Grace! 🧙♀️🎃
In this video, our European Institute Student Experience and Engagement Coordinator Natalie shares some witchy facts from…
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October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Happy #Halloween from our in-house witch expert, Dr Natalie Grace! 🧙🎃
In this video, our European Institute Events and Engagement Manager shares some spooky secrets about witches in Europe from her PhD in “Witchcraft in Print in Early Modern Germany and England” 🦇
In this video, our European Institute Events and Engagement Manager shares some spooky secrets about witches in Europe from her PhD in “Witchcraft in Print in Early Modern Germany and England” 🦇
🇪🇺🇺🇸 Our Assistant Professor in Political Economy @donatodc.bsky.social has co-authored a new article with Lorenzo Moretti and Manuela Moschella, which examines the political foundations of industrial policy amid the return of state economic interventionism👇
What's in a polity? Political institutions and varieties of economic interventionism in the USA and EU
Our Assistant Professor in Political Economy Dr Donato Di Carlo has co-authored a new article in Governance with Lorenzo Moretti and Manuela Moschella, which examines the political foundations of…
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October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🇪🇺🇺🇸 Our Assistant Professor in Political Economy @donatodc.bsky.social has co-authored a new article with Lorenzo Moretti and Manuela Moschella, which examines the political foundations of industrial policy amid the return of state economic interventionism👇
🎓 There are very few alumni who can boast such a long and varied career at the European Institute as Dr Michael Cottakis.
Ten years on, after first stepping foot at LSE, we caught up with Michael about his incredible journey to CEO of 89 Global.
👉 Read Michael's story: lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Ten years on, after first stepping foot at LSE, we caught up with Michael about his incredible journey to CEO of 89 Global.
👉 Read Michael's story: lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🎓 There are very few alumni who can boast such a long and varied career at the European Institute as Dr Michael Cottakis.
Ten years on, after first stepping foot at LSE, we caught up with Michael about his incredible journey to CEO of 89 Global.
👉 Read Michael's story: lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Ten years on, after first stepping foot at LSE, we caught up with Michael about his incredible journey to CEO of 89 Global.
👉 Read Michael's story: lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
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🚨New LSE Event🚨
Türkiye, South Africa & Uganda
Alternative Forms of Political Participation: Youth, Co-Production and Participatory Art
🗓 Wednesday 12 Nov 2025 | 6–7.30 pm | Thai Theatre, CKK (In-person)
Register to attend: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
@lse-ei.bsky.social @africaatlse.bsky.social
Türkiye, South Africa & Uganda
Alternative Forms of Political Participation: Youth, Co-Production and Participatory Art
🗓 Wednesday 12 Nov 2025 | 6–7.30 pm | Thai Theatre, CKK (In-person)
Register to attend: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
@lse-ei.bsky.social @africaatlse.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🚨New LSE Event🚨
Türkiye, South Africa & Uganda
Alternative Forms of Political Participation: Youth, Co-Production and Participatory Art
🗓 Wednesday 12 Nov 2025 | 6–7.30 pm | Thai Theatre, CKK (In-person)
Register to attend: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
@lse-ei.bsky.social @africaatlse.bsky.social
Türkiye, South Africa & Uganda
Alternative Forms of Political Participation: Youth, Co-Production and Participatory Art
🗓 Wednesday 12 Nov 2025 | 6–7.30 pm | Thai Theatre, CKK (In-person)
Register to attend: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
@lse-ei.bsky.social @africaatlse.bsky.social
Professor Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social has published a new article which addresses the fact that the mainstream formation of academic studies of Europe today is dominated by the methods of the social sciences, rather than the humanities.
Discover it below👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Discover it below👇
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The formation of European studies
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October 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Professor Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social has published a new article which addresses the fact that the mainstream formation of academic studies of Europe today is dominated by the methods of the social sciences, rather than the humanities.
Discover it below👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Discover it below👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
📣 Applications to our MSc and PhD programmes are now open for 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆!
Join us in 3 weeks for our 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 to discover postgraduate study in the European Institute.
👉 Register: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Join us in 3 weeks for our 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 to discover postgraduate study in the European Institute.
👉 Register: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Information sessions for prospective students
Join us for our online information sessions at the European Institute to learn more about our postgraduate offering across our MSc and PhD programmes.
www.lse.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📣 Applications to our MSc and PhD programmes are now open for 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆!
Join us in 3 weeks for our 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 to discover postgraduate study in the European Institute.
👉 Register: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Join us in 3 weeks for our 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 to discover postgraduate study in the European Institute.
👉 Register: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
In our upcoming event, Klaus Welle, former Secretary General of the European Parliament, will unpack the seemingly chaotic events of Trump’s presidency and reveal how they may signal strategic shifts in US policy.
🗓️ 6 Nov, 6.30-8.00pm
Register👇
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🗓️ 6 Nov, 6.30-8.00pm
Register👇
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LSE European Institute Events
6.30pm Thursday 6 November | Klaus Welle | Registration Required | Free hybrid public event at the LSE
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October 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In our upcoming event, Klaus Welle, former Secretary General of the European Parliament, will unpack the seemingly chaotic events of Trump’s presidency and reveal how they may signal strategic shifts in US policy.
🗓️ 6 Nov, 6.30-8.00pm
Register👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
🗓️ 6 Nov, 6.30-8.00pm
Register👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
🇪🇸🇬🇧 Our students were invited to an event hosted by @cep-lse.bsky.social last week, featuring none other than LSE alumnus Carlos Cuerpo Caballero, Spanish Minister of Economy, and a surprise guest: fellow alumna Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Thank you for the special invite!
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🇪🇸🇬🇧 Our students were invited to an event hosted by @cep-lse.bsky.social last week, featuring none other than LSE alumnus Carlos Cuerpo Caballero, Spanish Minister of Economy, and a surprise guest: fellow alumna Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Thank you for the special invite!