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Ngofeen Mputubwele is a journalist, lawyer, and podcast producer for the New Yorker Radio Hour based in New York City. He reports on issues of culture, language, and food, with an emphasis on international issues and the black diaspora. His work has been featured on NPR?s Code Switch, Rough Translation, as well as Gimlet Media?s The Nod, Every Little Thing, We Came to Win, and more. Most recently, he produced and narrated the New Yorker Radio Hour podcast episode "Black Italians Fight to Be Italian." He lives in Brooklyn with the 2.3 million yeast in his sourdough starter.

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Joaquín Roy, (Lic. Law, University of Barcelona, 1966; Ph.D, Georgetown University, 1973), is Jean Monnet Professor and Director of University of Miami European Union Center of Excellence. He has published over 200 academic articles and reviews, and he is the author or editor of 39 books. He has also published over 1,600 columns and essays.

The multiannual financial framework (MFF) budget of the European Union; a proposal which drags on for two years without negotiations is recasted, and then gets consensus in five days in an institution of 27 members. The same proposal gets consensus in a few months, but then is stalled for more than a year, only for it to be recasted in another institution of 705 members. The legislative procedure of the European Union is complex and for many looking from a distance, chaotic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unparalleled global crisis. Yet, despite the grave adversity faced by citizens, incumbents around the world experienced a boost in popularity during the onset of the outbreak. In this study, we examine how the response to the COVID-19 outbreak in one country has affected incumbent support in other countries.

In the EU, including in Central and Eastern Europe, populist parties of various stripes succeeded in riding a wave of anger over corruption, resentment at the outcome of the democratic transition, and anxiety about migration and the EU's principle of shared governance. Their leaders all have charismatic personalities who master the anti-establishment rhetoric to perfection and are often supported by Russia.

Fred Kudjo Kuwornu is an activist-producer-filmmaker born and raised in ltaly and based in Brooklyn. His mother is an ltalian Jew, and his father a Ghanaian surgeon who lived in ltaly since the early 60's. Fred Kuwornu holds a Bachelor's degree in Politica! Science and Mass Media. After his experience working with the production crew of Spike Lee's Miracle at St.

In this first installment of the ESC’s 2020-2021 series of virtual roundtables, we will use the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration as a springboard for discussing diversity within the EU.