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Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, updating the European Parliament today on the EU-UK negotiation.
On Sunday morning, after the EU and UK had made some progress in resolving one of the most difficult issues in the negotiation of their future relationship—how to maintain a level playing field for...
In the following article that appears in today’s Literary Hub, Alan Mikhail, professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale University, considers the historical ripples of...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meeting at the Commission for dinner last Wednesday.
Finally, after two telephone calls between British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, a three-hour dinner in Brussels last Wednesday, and another...
J’Nese Williams
Thomas Thurston talks with J’Nese Williams about her project “Race, Place, and Expertise: Working in the St. Vincent Botanic Garden, 1765-1822” as part of Slavery and Its Legacies, a podcast by the...
James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at the MacMillan Center
James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at the MacMillan Center, is the recipient of the 2020 Albert O....
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaking with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at yesterday’s European Council meeting.
In July, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union, meeting as the European Council, approved a €750 billion recovery plan, labeled Next Generation EU, and the Commission’s proposed €...
(Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein)
Yale University has launched a campus-wide initiative that will unite institutional leadership and academic experts across the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, professional schools,...
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has named Sophie White as the 2020 winner of its 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize for “Voices of the Enslaved:...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaking by phone Saturday.
On November 19, the EU-UK negotiation of an agreement on their relationship after the UK leaves the EU’s internal market and customs union at midnight on December 31 was interrupted when Michel...
On November 20, Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University and Universidad Nacional...
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the EU.
In July, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union, meeting as the European Council, approved a €750 billion recovery plan, labeled Next Generation EU, and the Commission’s proposed €...
Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Professor of Anthropology and the School of the Environment
Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Professor of Anthropology, has received the John P. McGovern Award Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences, which is given by the American Association for the Advancement of...