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EU Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič speaking Wednesday to the Executive Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly about the EU-UK negotiation.

Update: EU and UK talks on Protocol continue but still no agreement on key issues

Today, Lord David Frost, the British Cabinet Office Minister, and European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič, the co-chairs of the Joint Committee that oversees implementation of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, met via video conference to take stock of the discussions this week between...

German party leaders Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck (Greens), Olaf Scholz (SPD), and Christian Lindner (FDP) after concluding their coalition agreement, Berlin, November 24.

German parties agree on coalition and Sweden elects first female prime minister—twice

Last Wednesday, almost two months after the September election for the German Bundestag, the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens, and Free Democrats (FDP) agreed to form a “traffic light” coalition government—the term refers to the parties’ colors—to replace the coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU...

In Memoriam—Frances McCall Rosenbluth: Scholar, teacher, community citizen

Frances McCall Rosenbluth, a comparative political economist with a special interest in Japan, and a distinguished and beloved teacher and member of the Yale community, died Nov. 20 after a valiant battle with cancer. She was 63.

Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of Political Science,...

Village View near Lalibela, Ethiopia. Photo by Adam Jones

Responding to the crisis in northern Ethiopia

The Genocide Studies Program (GSP) at Yale MacMillan convened a two-part webinar on “Responding to the Crisis in Northern Ethiopia” on Tuesday, November 16. More than 1,200 people attended the online event. The first part featured the co-chairs of the United States Senate Human Rights Caucus,...

Police water cannon firing at protesters in Brussels Sunday.

With Covid surging, EU states enact new lockdowns—and face widespread protests

In Rotterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Vienna, Zagreb and other cities across the EU, protesters were out in force this past weekend expressing their opposition to the new measures, ranging from partial lockdowns to vaccine mandates, their governments had proposed or introduced to reverse the...

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