Alonso Campos

Alonso Campos is a Physics postgraduate student and a member of JEF Cambridge. He is nterested in European and Spanish politics, as well as science and technology.

Articles de cet auteur (14)

The way forward for the European greens

As 2023 ends and gives way to 2024, it would seem that the entire world is on fire and the fight against climate change is already lost, as temperatures, weather catastrophes and greenhouse gas (GHG) atmospheric concentrations keep increasing. The picture is dire, and more and more people (…)

vendredi 9 février 2024

Europe is missing the point on climate spending

On August 16th, 2022, United States President Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), after a year-long fight within the Democratic Party over its climate provisions. While sold as an aid against the record-high inflation the country was facing, the bill was actually the (…)

vendredi 19 mai 2023

The European Critical Raw Materials Act : powering Europe’s industries of the future

In her 2022 State of the European Union address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated that “lithium and rare earths will soon be more important than oil and gas. […] We must avoid becoming dependent again”. She announced the preparation of a European Critical Raw Materials (…)

jeudi 16 février 2023

New European industrial policy : Part III – Winning the future

This article is the third in a three-part series on the resurgence of industrial policy in Europe. The first article in the series can be found here and the second one here. It is clear by now that the European Union (EU), much like the United States across the Atlantic, is pursuing a new, (…)

mercredi 4 janvier 2023

New European industrial policy, Part II - A new paradigm emerges ?

This article is the second in a three-part series on the resurgence of industrial policy in Europe. The first article in the series can be found here. Since coming to power in January 2021, USA President Joe Biden has had to deal with : the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic ; the increasing (…)

mardi 29 novembre 2022

The new European industrial policy, Part I : The crisis of neoliberalism

This article is the first in a three-part series on the resurgence of industrial policy in Europe. Industrial policy has, in the last few years, attracted the attention of Western politicians, policymakers and businesspeople once again, after a long period of disinterest. From extensive (…)

mardi 18 octobre 2022

The life and times of Alexander Hamilton

Alonso Campos explores Alexander Hamilton’s legacy and the lessons the EU can learn from it.

lundi 14 septembre 2020

Covid-19 y la (última) crisis de la UE

Este artículo está dedicado a Alfredo Garrido Guanipa, el tío del autor, que tristemente falleción de Covid-19 el 29 de marzo de 2020 en Madrid, España. A medida que la pandemia de Covid-19 cruza el globo, dejando centenares de miles de infectados, decenas de miles de muertos y más de mil (…)

mercredi 8 avril 2020

Covid-19 and the EU’s (latest) crisis

This article is dedicated to Alfredo Garrido Guanipa, the author’s uncle, who on March 29th and in Madrid (Spain), sadly passed away due to Covid-19. As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, leaving hundreds of thousands infected, tens of thousands of deaths and more than one billion people (…)

dimanche 5 avril 2020

With Brexit done, the EU needs decisive reform - and federalists have to push for it

As the dust from Brexit settles, the UK turns to its future plans and relations with its neighbors, and the EU is left asking “what now ?” The question of the path the EU should follow in the coming years is not an easy one. While Brexit has served to make many realize the benefits of EU (…)

mardi 11 février 2020

Aufstrebende Technologien und wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit innerhalb Europas

Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges im Jahr 1945 lag Europa in Trümmern. Zu den unzähligen Opfern des Krieges und seiner Vorjahre gehörte auch die europäische Wissenschaft. Vor dem Krieg war in Europa ein Großteil der brillantesten Wissenschaftler beheimatet, aber die Auswirkungen des Krieges und (…)

jeudi 17 octobre 2019

L’Europe doit retrouver l’esprit du CERN : dans l’intérêt de la science, de la prospérité et des valeurs européennes

Alors qu’à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’Europe est en ruines, la science européenne fait partie des innombrables victimes de la guerre et des années l’ayant précédée. Avant la guerre, l’Europe était le foyer de beaucoup parmi les plus brillants esprits scientifiques du monde. Puis, de nombreux scientifiques d’origine juive (à l’image d’Albert Einstein, parmi beaucoup d’autres) durent fuir aux Etats-Unis pour éviter la persécution, ou parce qu’ils s’opposaient au régime nazi et à sa politique extérieure d’occupation. Le calme revint mais les scientifiques continuèrent d’émigrer en Amérique, dans la mesure où, au milieu de la reconstruction, les conditions matérielles pour développer la science en Europe étaient quasi inexistantes.

mardi 17 septembre 2019
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