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Countering disinformation: Strategies to foster social resilience

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Disinformation is a growing threat in the European Union with geopolitical and democratic implications. Through the spread of false information with the aim of misleading, some external actors can endanger and undermine EU values for their own sake. This takes place in many contexts, such as elections, the COVID-19 pandemic or Russia’s war in Ukraine. […]

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Empowering Refugees: investigating the potential of blockchain for humanitarian assistance

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In times of crisis, individuals and organizations need to step up and help those in need. The Russian war in Ukraine has led to a humanitarian emergency and we have seen a new breed of challenges in the humanitarian sector. These are individuals and groups using innovative approaches to provide much-needed aid to those affected

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Reforming Frontex: Can the EU’s most controversial agency demonstrate its commitment to fundamental rights after the OLAF report?

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The headquarters of Frontex, the European Union’s border management agency, is located in a sprawling glass building in one of Warsaw’s main business districts. It is the only EU agency in Poland. Students from the College of Europe in Natolin recently spent a morning with Frontex’s head of media and public relations, Piotr Świtalski, to

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A guideline to Belarusian repressive methods. Dealing with structural roots of dissent

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The 2020 mass protests took place thanks to a vibrant private sector that produced a highly-skilled, well-paid urban class not tied to Lukashenka’s social contract. Lukashenka response can be seen partly in his Soviet upbringing and political career which produced a worldview not devoid of class-based categories. Thus, he attacked the means that sustain the

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