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“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future” Niels Bohr 9 June 2017 She wanted a strong majority to secure a good Brexit deal. that was a mistake. Theresa May called for anticipated elections in April this year to strengthen her majority. It appears her...

by Livia Ortensi The summer 2016 was marked by a major event with migrations at its very centre: the Brexit referendum sanctioned the will of a people to leave the Union. To take on Livi Bacci’s words (2016), demography has played a significant role in determining the outcome of...

France: a further step back for populism in Europe?   “It is not certain that everything is uncertain.” Blaise Pascal, Les Pensées, 1669 08 May 2017 Opinion polls got it right. After months of campaign, M. Macron becomes the President of the French Republic for the five...

The present news brief is published in the framework of Fondazione ISMU’s strategic line of research Immigration and the future of Europe by Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem “Our fathers were comfortably saturated with confidence in the unfailing and binding power of tolerance and...