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- The EU’s official website is a valuable starting point. It provides further links to a wide variety of official sites on EU policies, institutions, legislation, treaties, and current debates.
- An important and timely resource is the “European Union priorities for 2019-2024” segment of the EU website.
- EUR-Lex is the authoritative and formal source for information on EU legislation, legal documents, and case law.
- For pithier reporting, the Economist provides useful general articles, while Politico offers insider coverage of EU policies and news.
- To follow current events and developments within the EU, the following sites are useful -
- EurActiv reports EU current affairs and analyses.
- EUobserver offers coverage of EU current affairs with a very useful email newsletter service.
- Current debates and topics are also addressed in series of think tank websites. Some of the better known include
- the Centre for European Policy Studies,
- the European Policy Centre,
- the Centre for European Reform,
- Chatham House,
- and the European Union Institute for Security Studies.
- Blogging and tweeting are now increasingly a part of daily life and should not be overlooked, though they may need to be treated with caution depending on their provenance. Valuable blogs include the University Association for Contemporary European Studies’ ‘Ideas on Europe’ Blog and LSE’s
- You may also wish to subscribe to certain Twitter feeds, such as those of Josep Borrell, Ursula von der Leyen, David Sassoli, Federica Mogherini, Donald Tusk, the European External Action Service, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Centre for European Reform, etc. These accounts provide very up-to-date insights into the daily activities of European institutions.
- There now also exists a plethora of regular podcasts on political issues, which may provide a source of entertainment and education. Options include
- DW’s Inside Europe,
- Mark Leonard’s World in 30 Minutes by the ECFR,
- EU Untangled by podworld,
- the new Cambridge University’s Generation Politics, and
- Politico’s EU Confidential.
- You may also be interested in downloading Carnegie Europe’s app, which provides regular analysis on all things related to Europe.
- There is also a variety of multimedia content available on platforms such as YouTube or Ted.com. Some interesting options include
- TED’s Europe portal, with plenty of talks centred around EU issues available,
- out of which this talk by Ursula von der Leyen on climate neutrality may be of particular interest,
- as well as this talk by Alexander Betts on Brexit and its aftermath;
- the Ciceroni YouTube channel, which seeks to be a guide to European culture and history, and
- the EU Debates.tv YouTube channel, where you can find plenty of current videos of speeches and talks on European issues, and
- the YouTube channel of TEPSA - Trans European Policy Studies Association.
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