Nurses from EU-countries were poorly prepared to work in Norway Nurses from countries like Poland, Lithuania and Spain are unprepared for the expectations and the large amounts of responsibility that nurses have in Norway.
The EU’s global response to Covid-19: The challenge of promoting ownership An effective external response to Covid-19 by the EU must be rooted in the requirements and priorities of southern partners, argue Niels Keijzer and David Black.
Another brick in the wall: Covid-19 and the crisis of the liberal order Covid-19 risks being another hit to the liberal world order, argues GLOBUS researcher Sonia Lucarelli.
Translating economic growth into sustainable development in Africa during Covid-19 EU aid policies in Africa must continue to address the broader challenge of African socio-economic development while dealing with the specific challenges of Covid-19, writes GLOBUS researcher Pundy Pillay.
The EU and Covid-19: Overcoming the lockdown mindset on migration While the EU seems even less inclined to change its restrictive approach to migration during the coronavirus, the pandemic offers a window of opportunity to advance measures that would fit with the EU’s purported stance as a liberal vanguard in the international landscape, argues GLOBUS researcher Michela Ceccorulli.
Ensuring meaningful stakeholder involvement in the EU's external policies While engagement with stakeholders is an increasingly popular approach to national and international decision-making, the EU needs to exercise greater caution when exporting multistakeholder arrangements to other countries, argues Diana Potjomkina.
Funding to defend industry, or defend Norway? New EU regulations can force the Norwegian government to make a choice. Will it subsidise the defence industry to promote national security, or is economic stimulus the major aim? A researcher says we should go for the first option.
Why Norwegians never wanted EU membership Norwegians have always had mixed feelings about joining the European Union and a majority voted against it in 1972 and 1994. A new study shows why.