It is easy to green an old model; it is much harder to admit the model is broken. @SilviaSedita, Coenen & @dfkogler argue in @RegionalStudies for a fundamental rethinking of policy scaffolding. #Innovation must serve something greater: a sustainable future https://t.co/vHby29Sssa

You can’t transfuse vitality into a region stripped of its ecosystem anchors overnight. As @der_wolch shows in her new JoEG article, gutting East German #cities & #regions of their local anchor firms reduced them to highly-vulnerable 'Satellite Platforms'. https://t.co/bRKAlPEbrc

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#Green agenda success in #city cores may breed resentment in the periphery. As @HavardHaarstad & Yazar argue in Territory, Politics, Governance, a moral hierarchy that punishes car-dependent suburbanites —often on lower incomes— is a recipe for #populism. https://t.co/vKpk15VpCj

Reports of the death of #industrial #policy have been greatly exaggerated. In #Ireland, as Clifford, @frankgcrowley, @justin_doran & Jordan show in @RegionalStudies, targeted state investment in tech parks has delivered sustained #employment growth. https://t.co/TPLtuWGrWK

To find a #job in #London where the stakes are high yet the environment is warm is a rare luxury. @LSEGeography team is looking for a Graduate Programmes Administrator to guide students from first query to final mark. Details: https://t.co/YZYvTShkmR Deadline 8 Dec 2025.

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When places are ignored, #democracy falters. In The Revenge of Places That Don’t Matter, territorial discomfort takes center stage & resentment reveals its geographic roots. Thanks to @FilBarbera, the quiet force behind the scenes. https://t.co/sN11c373Hz https://t.co/4Lexp5kc43

Quando i luoghi sono ignorati, la #democrazia vacilla. In "La vendetta dei luoghi che non contano", il disagio dei territori è protagonista e il risentimento ha radici geografiche. Grazie a @FilBarbera, artefice dietro le quinte. https://t.co/sN11c373Hz https://t.co/hII1jRIulr

#Brussels keeps learning the same lesson over and over again: money can build bridges but not love. Bayerlein & @m_diermeier show in the Journal of Comparative Economics that people back #Brussels not when it expects loyalty but when it delivers #progress. https://t.co/GdRnO5WX7l

History is a resource, not a refuge. As Valdaliso, @PatrSuarez, @MatasMayor2 & @edurnemagro show in @CamJRES, regions that revere their past but look to the future—like the Basque Country—turned decline into growth. Asturias, by contrast, clung to the past https://t.co/Z5gpFY70Rj

#Democracy thins at the edges when the state withdraws from places. #Hospitals closed, courthouses moved, what begins as an efficiency drive ends in alienation. Fregoni & @marcoleonardi9’s @RegionalStudies paper links institutional retreat to #populism. https://t.co/a0JKXOLYGu

Local government, cast as the frail limb of the federal body, proved startlingly resilient throughout #austerity. Xu & @ProfMWarner show in @USJ_online how #local #government pragmatism trumped #ideology, revealing a #geography of strain and stamina. https://t.co/ow0iCNW0nv

Recognition, like #citations, is an imperfect mirror but a flattering one. To be listed among @Clarivate's 260 #HighlyCited Researchers across all Social Sciences for the sixth time is a nod to shared labour, intellectual kinship & ideas that still matter. https://t.co/0XYz49Dlo6

Europe’s cohesion falters less from funding gaps than from uneven competence and weak institutions. As @wajid_aw, Brasili and @Peppisila argue in @JCMS_EU, European investment lifts the economy only where institutions can carry it. https://t.co/sj3rFJbd00

#Euroscepticism is sold as cost-free dissent, yet its price is paid in slower #growth & #jobs & dimmer prospects. As highlighted in @voxeu, voters’ grievances are real but the remedy prescribed by Eurosceptics carries its own harm. https://t.co/zhb9mDZtLP https://t.co/QOdoJxwii5

#Europe’s prosperity hinges less on shiny sectors than on building on its #skills & potential base. As @milenetessarin, @rboschma, @lideyu_UU & @PetraliaSergio show in the @CamJRES, #regions thrive when dense, high-skill ecosystems reinforce themselves. https://t.co/95dv3Yot4j

#Europe’s future won’t be forged in capital cities alone. It lies in Mainz, Skellefteå or Arteixo. Yet, these places are too rich for cohesion funds, too dull for #innovation strategies. Centralisation is not the #EU’s best strategy https://t.co/WTAydoX6W2 https://t.co/gI7HbkYjvu

Turns out governance matters more than growth when Russian tanks arrive. In a fascinating new @econgeog paper of two occupied towns in #Ukraine, Grillitsch, @CabralCobos & Horvat show that transparency & civic engagement are key to recovery & #resilience. https://t.co/o4URDpjkU5

A continent that once bound regions together, tethering Brussels to its citizens, may soon devolve into national silos. As @profgviesti warns, #cohesion is slow and imperfect, but it is shared and democratic https://t.co/sjn5wm6wlp https://t.co/WTAydoX6W2 https://t.co/gI7HbkYjvu

Read my new commentary in @eursjournal on the EU budget proposal. #Brussels sells centralisation as “efficiency.” But it risks silencing the very local voices that make Europe whole, turning European #citizens from shapers of #Europe into mere spectators. https://t.co/WTAydoX6W2

Natural disasters test not just nature’s force but Europe’s governance. Next Tuesday, Eric Neumayer, Dolores Pitarch Garrido and I will ask: why do some regions recover while others decline? Chaired by @IammarinoSimona 🔗 https://t.co/0pPeFmv5nI