Text of my inaugural lecture for 28 June is ready. Which leaves me five weeks to source drinks and snacks 🥂

All are welcome in the Aula of Maastricht University or online

📢 Come work with us!

You're a PhD grad who is interested in international institutions & multilateralism?

The Robert Schuman Centre is looking for a research fellow as part of the ENSURED project.

Check out the details 👉eui.eu/Documents/Serv…

I am biased but this is a *great* postdoc position on the EU and global governance

Join our ENSURED research project and work with Stephanie Hofmann at The Robert Schuman Centre. Deadline: 15 June

Job alert! For our ENSURED project on global governance transformation, I am hiring a PostDoc/Research Fellow at the EUI The Robert Schuman Centre Political and Social Sciences at EUI. Please spread the word.

eui.eu/Documents/Serv…

📽️ Trade is one of the most contested areas of global governance, says ENSURED's Michal Parizek.

Why? What challenges does the @WTO face? And how can 🇪🇺 improve global trade governance?

In ENSURED, we're considering paths towards a fairer 🌍 trading system.

🧵Listing government reactions to ICC prosecutor's application for arrest warrants against leaders of Israel and Hamas.

Scored on a 1-10 scale from the highest to the lowest support for the ICC.

Limited to European & Western govts.

Summarising in under 6 minutes (from 5m43s) the argument of our recent special issue The International Spectator on EU foreign and security policy

New Dutch coalition agreement likely today. Next govt in place before #EP2024 with an inexperienced PM who will face a steep learning curve

➡️ 17 June: EUCO
➡️ 27-28 June: EUCO
➡️ 9-11 July: NATO
➡️ 18 July: EPC

⁉️Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Trump 2.0 and EU leadership positions

Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra speaking at our Faculty FASoS Maastricht next Tuesday 21 May

➡️studioeuropamaastricht.nl/event/speech-a…

Horizon Europe week

✅ JOINT final conference (Brussels, Mon/Tue)
✅ REUNIR Horizon Europe Project workshop (Brussels, Wed)
✅ remit-research conference (Leuven, Thu/Fri)

To complicate things: I'll be introducing our ENSURED project on Friday! 👇 ensuredeurope.eu

Please share with your networks: we have a PhD vacancy FASoS Maastricht to work with me and Gergana Noutcheva on digital technologies in European enlargement and neighbourhood policy. Fluency in one or more relevant language(s) is an asset.
academictransfer.com/en/341008/phd-…

Brazil and Germany, for once, score at the UN ⚽️

Terribly poor score for Dutch citizens #EP2024 eupinions.eu/de/text/the-vo…

Around the world, populism seems to be on the rise –and not just for the reason you might think.

Expert Vinícius Guilherme Rodrigues Vieira on identity capital and how national identity can influence both global markets & international institutions.

More on the ENSURED blog ⤵️
ensuredeurope.eu/blog/identity-…

No actual interview with Macron The Economist magazine. Only a lazy summary. Interview on the website behind paywall 🤯 economist.com/europe/2024/05…

Agreed, almost as bad as Realists plugging historical events into their simplistic models to make wild claims about contemporary international relations 🫢