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- On 22 June Daniele Albertazzi presented the paper "The dynamics of party competition: A typology" (written with Donatella Bonansinga and Davide Vampa) to the Council for European Studies Annual Conference.
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- Wednesday 17th July 2019
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- Daniele Albertazzi was quoted by Newsweek in an article focusing on an investigation on the Italian party the League trying to secure oil money from Russia to finance its activities.
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- Monday 15th July 2019
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- The Daily Telegraph reports on David H Dunn's evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.
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- Friday 12th July 2019
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- David H Dunn is running a workshop this week on helping security professionals understand risk, regulation and resilience to counter the accidental or unlawful misuse of drones.
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- Tuesday 9th July 2019
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- Prof Stefan Wolff writes for the RUSI blog on the 10th Anniversary of the EU's Eastern Partnership.
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- Wednesday 3rd July 2019
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- Daniele Albertazzi opened the Summer School for PhD students of The Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence in European Governance at De Montfort University (Leicester).
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- Tuesday 2nd July 2019
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- Daniele Albertazzi quoted by Izvestia in a piece on Italian politics "How Matteo Salvini steals the show. The success of the League in the elections to the European Parliament may entail early elections in Italy"
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- Monday 10th June 2019
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- Daniele Albertazzi writes for The Conversation: After a confusing election and months of negotiations, Italy has a government once again. But don't be surprised if it gets a new one before too long.
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- Monday 3rd June 2019
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- Prof David H Dunn was interviewed on his research on small drones by the Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine.
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- Friday 31st May 2019
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- The Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security (ICCS) held its sixth annual training programme on Trust, Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation at the University of Birmingham in April 2019.
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- Monday 20th May 2019
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- The man at the centre of this week's historic and highly-charged Brexit ruling hot-footed it to the University of Birmingham to urge students to play a more active role in politics.
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- Wednesday 17th April 2019
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- The International Relations Committee has published written evidence from Paul Schulte and Nicholas Wheeler as part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and nuclear disarmament inquiry.
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- Monday 8th April 2019
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- Ukraine's presidential election campaign is a tragic indictment of the country's current political state.
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- Friday 22nd March 2019
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- POLSIS/G&S academic Dr Tim Haughton analysed the results of the Slovak Presidential Elections in the Washington Post
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- Thursday 21st March 2019
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- A group of MA students from POLSIS participated in a special module in Dehli and also enjoyed Sunrise at the Taj Mahal.
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- Wednesday 20th March 2019
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- Daniele Albertazzi was interviewed on opposition to the Euro and the future of the EU by BBC World Service – 'The Inquiry' programme
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- Friday 15th March 2019
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- Scott Lucas writes for The Conversation on 'Egypt: hopes for democratic future die as al-Sisi marches country towards dictatorship – with parliament's blessing'.
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- Friday 15th March 2019
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- Daniele Albertazzi was invited to deliver a research paper on Italian politics to Italian Studies at Oxford (ISO),
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- Wednesday 27th February 2019
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- Katherine Brown, writes for The Conversation to argue for a combined approach of a fair trial, rehabilitation, and restorative justice in the cases of radicalised individuals returning to the UK.
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- Monday 18th February 2019
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- Scott Lucas on 'Dick Cheney is a man so devious he can't be captured in a Hollywood biopic'.
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- Friday 15th February 2019