UNU-MERIT master’s students take their global development studies to the EU’s heart A guest post by Louis Géneau de Lamarlière, current student in our 2023-2024 MPP cohort and Communications Officer of DEMOS Many of us know Brussels as the heart of the EU, home to the European Parliament, European Council and Council of the EU. However, another lesser-known but no less significant role of the Belgian capital is its housing of many UN agencies and institutions. Last week (on 8 February), I had t...
Five years on from the Great East Japan tsunami and the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, we revisit an article by Prof. Luc Soete, our founding director. Does Europe face similar nuclear risks? Recent developments in Belgium do not bode well. ••• On 11 March 2011, I was attending a conference in Brussels on Europe’s future energy policy, when Japan was hit by an earthquake. During the coffee break we were transfixed by the images coming out the country. At first it seemed that Japanese socie...