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From our faculty to our students and alumni, the European Institute’s intergenerational community presented its latest research at the 2025 edition of this month, including the "LSE Festival Exibition: Visions for the Future" and LSE100's "Knowledge Beyond Boundaries: LSE's Interdisciplinary Student Research Conference".

Congratulations to our Assistant Professor in European Politics and Policy, Dr António Valentim, our current students Ellie Fischer and Jennifer Belardo, as well as our recent Class of 2024 alumnus, Gabriel A. Pierzynski, for presenting their research at this year's LSE Festival! 👏

👉 Read the full story: http://lse.ac.uk/european-institute/news/EI-LSE-Festival-2025

To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

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This week, we held our annual “Summer in the City Drinks”, bringing members of our entire EI community together for a drink on the CBG 6th floor terrace - from students, faculty, and staff, to our esteemed alumni!

What better way to close off the academic year and exams season than with drinks under golden hour! 🥂🌆 Thank you to our alumni for joining us, it is always great to see so many familiar faces back on campus!

We wish our students all the best completing their dissertations over these final couple of months at LSE - you’re almost there! 🎉

👉 If you haven’t already, please make sure to tell us how your experience at LSE has been by filling out the Postgraduate Taught Survey (link in bio!)

We are delighted to announce that Professor Kevin Featherstone, Emeritus Professor in the European Institute and Professorial Research Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory, has been awarded the honour of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to academia and UK–Greece relations in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025. 

Professor Featherstone served as Head of the European Institute across three separate terms. He also held the prestigious Eleftherios Venizelos Chair in Contemporary Greek Studies from 2002 to 2022 and was Director of the Hellenic Observatory from 2002 to 2024. He currently serves as Chair of the Anglo-Hellenic League. 

Professor Simon Glendinning, Head of the European Institute celebrated this achievement:  
“It is richly deserved. The European Institute was incredibly fortunate to have been led by Kevin for seven years. Today we celebrate his achievement with pride and gratitude.” 

You can read more about Professor Feathersone’s award at lse.ac.uk/ei/news

⚧️ 🤔 Who reports on the ethical practices in political science and IR scholarship? Do men and women frame their ethical concerns differently?

Professor Denisa Kostovicova has co-authored a new paper with Dr. Eleanor Knott (LSE Department of Methodology) in the American Political Science Review, which investigates the understudied practice of reporting research ethics in political science and international relations. The study analyses how scholars report ethical practices from a feminist ethics of care perspective, revealing significant gender-based differences in both the frequency and dimensions of ethics reported. It argues that these largely voluntary and uneven reporting practices perpetuate gender inequalities in the profession and calls for an agreed international standard for research ethics reporting.

🔗 Read more: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/to-report-or-not-to-report-on-research-ethics-in-political-science-and-international-relations-a-new-dimension-of-genderbased-inequality/D7C177029F2E701CD9D0EB2CD5DF2237

To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

Professor Iain Begg has co-authored a new study for the European Parliament’s on Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) which explores how performance-based instruments, such as those in the Recovery and Resilience Facility, are changing budgetary control. The study also provides recommendations for CONT to guide negotiations on the next Multiannual Financial Framework.

🔗 Discover it here: https://t.co/IpubyKGqUf

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Professor in Political Economy Vassilis Monastiriotis’ working paper with Tea Gumtkisuasvili, “Industrial and Cohesion Policy in the EU”, has been published in the LUISS Hub for New Industrial Policy and Economic Governance (LUHNIP) Working Paper Series 7/2025.

It argues that better coordination between Cohesion Policy and Industrial Policy is essential to align the EU’s new ambitions, such as “open strategic autonomy” and “decarbonisation,” with its Treaty obligation of promoting territorial cohesion. It calls for an Industrial Policy that “thinks locally” and a Cohesion Policy that “acts globally”.

🔗 Read more: https://leap.luiss.it/publication-research/publications/v-monastiriotis-t-gamtkitsulashvili-taking-the-territorial-dimension-of-industrial-policy-seriously-industrial-and-cohesion-policy-in-the-eu/

To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

The International Monetary Fund has lowered its growth forecasts for most developed economies, with the organization's chief economist saying there has been a “significant reduction in global growth, now projected at 2.8% this year and 3% next year."

It points to the impact of U.S. tariffs as a major factor in this slowdown, warning that escalating trade tensions could further dampen economic prospects.

Professor Iain Begg was invited on TVP World to discuss.

🔗 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLNKXhqjlvI

To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

“As investors’ desperately search for safe alternatives to US Treasuries, the European Union has been given an unprecedented opportunity.”

In a new article for Project Syndicate, our Visiting Senior Fellow Philippe Legrain argues that the European Union has a unique chance to issue common EU bonds, which would satisfy growing investor demand and strengthen its economy, security, and autonomy.

🔗 Read more: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/euro-can-compete-with-dollar-as-safe-asset-thanks-to-trump-by-philippe-legrain-2025-04

To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

A little throwback to our European Institute 2025 Student Ball a month ago!! One for the books! 💃🕺

We are looking forward to welcoming our students back on campus for the start of Spring Term next week!

Congratulations to Professor Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics at the LSE European Institute and LSE School of Public Policy, for having been elected as a founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society (RES).

RES President Prof Sir Chris Pissarides, who chaired the judging panel, said:

“Through their applications our new Fellows demonstrated the impact they have made not just in their roles, but to the wider economics profession. We congratulate them and look forward to working with them to advance the RES vision: that economics be understood, advanced and applied for the good of society and the world around us.”

🔗 Read more: https://res.org.uk/the-royal-economic-society-announces-founding-fellows/?utm_campaign=Dotdigital&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Royal%20Economic%20Society&dm_i=7O8I,R2LS,1LO5JT,2AC15,1

To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

London is showing off for us this week! 🌳🌞

We hope you are soaking in all this Vitamin D and positive energy in the final week of Spring Break!

Where is your favourite spot to enjoy the sun on campus? 💬👇

A sharp sell-off in U.S. Treasuries is unsettling global financial markets, as investors flee what was once considered a safe-haven asset amid concerns over Donald Trump's new tariffs and rising inflation. The spike in yields signals deepening uncertainty, with potential global repercussions for borrowing costs and financial stability.

“Now the U.S. government is the preeminent source of turbulence and unpredictability. No wonder investors are looking for another rock,” Professor Paul de Grauwe told Newsweek.

🔗 Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/treasuries-sell-off-nightmare-scenario-economy-tariffs-2057368

To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

Why US Treasuries sell-off Is nightmare scenario for the economy A "fire sale" of U.S. Treasuries has added to fears that President Trump's tariffs could dethrone the perennial safe-haven asset.