"other European countries" does not seem to include Spain - sometimes it is good to be forgotten. www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

Trump vows extra tariffs for UK, Denmark and other European countries until Greenland deal struck - follow live

The US president says the countries will be charged a

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Belarus released more than 100 political prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and activist Maria Kolesnikova, multiple media outlets reported today.

Belarus frees opposition figures as US lifts some sanctions

The U.S. reportedly agreed to lift sanctions on potash, an important export for Belarus.

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Does #CFSP coordination foster foreign policy alignment among #EU member states? 🤔@valeriovignoli.bsky.social, @profonderco.bsky.social + yours truly revisit this question with fresh evidence from UNGA 🌐voting on #nuclearweapons in @cspjournal.bsky.social 👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZYNCQ...

Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly

Although the European Union (EU) has sought to promote the approximation of the foreign policy positions of member states since it established its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) with the...

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Check out our study of the #effectiveness of the #EU Global #HumanRights sanctions regime 5 years after adoption, written with Dr Nathanael Tilahun and @antonpeez.bsky.social for @europarl.europa.eu/@ep-eprs.bsky.social - with thanks to @tepsa.bsky.social! 👇 www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

Effectiveness of the EU global human rights sanctions regime | Think Tank | European Parliament

Effectiveness of the EU global human rights sanctions regime

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Delighted to find my article on #RuleofLaw conditionality in the #EU, co-authored with @adamholesch.bsky.social from @ibei.org, in the latest issue of @jcms-eu.bsky.social (incidentally, in the good company of @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social) and many others...

Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS)@jcms-eu.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨 Volume 63, Issue 4 of JCMS is out now! 🌍 Explore key debates on EU funding, Euroscepticism, foreign policy and more. Edited by @cardwellpj.bsky.social, @rguerrina.bsky.social, and @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social 📚 Read the new issue here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...

Pleased that our #EWIS2025 workshop on the 'European gaze on #economiccoercion' allowed for a productive exchange among researchers from Law, IPE and International Relations from across #Europe. Thanks @europeanisa.bsky.social for facilitating, and to #JagiellonianUni for hosting us in #Krakow!

Do foreign #aid suspensions affect #autocracies and #hybrid regimes similarly? Check out my article with Dr Juan Mora Sanguinetti @morasanguinetti.bsky.social, out with @tandfonline.bsky.social Journal of Development Studies 👇 'Aid Sanctions and Hybrid Regimes' www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UB5DC...

Aid Sanctions and Hybrid Regimes

Recent advances combining sanctions scholarship and the study of authoritarianism relate sanctions effectiveness to regime type. These studies generally conclude that economic sanctions tend to be ...

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Delighted to announce that my article on #GlobalSouth #contestation of unilateral #sanctions against #Russia at #UN fora, co-authored with Stefano Palestini is now out with the journal Co-operation and Conflict @coco-journal.bsky.social ! 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

The Global South and the contestation of unilateral sanctions against Russia - Stefano Palestini, Clara Portela, 2025

States from the Global South have long advanced normative claims against the legitimacy of unilateral sanctions. These arguments have been routinely voiced thro...

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A #sanctions framework for #Guatemala is in the making - this will be the 3rd #CFSP sanctions regime in Latin America, and consolidates a growing trend towards starting with a "framework" before actual #designations are made: www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/guatema...

Vote for the Arms Control Person of the Year ! www.armscontrol.org/2023-12/2023...