ALT 🇪🇺🇦🇲 COP17 opens today in Yerevan, with Europe showcasing its biodiversity leadership. But is the EU practicing what it preaches? In 2025 it downgraded the wolf’s protection 🐺 despite better solutions being available. What does this reveal?

ALT Regional integration isn't built by treaties alone.🌍 Beneath the summits and diplomatic negotiations, public officials across borders are building something just as important: trust, shared practices and common ways of seeing problems. On the EU-VALUES blog now, Prof. Jacint Jordana explores how transgovernmental networks shape regional governance, and why they matter more in a multipolar world where global rules are weakening. 🎥 This piece connects directly to the wider conversation on comparative regionalism that we explored at our conference last month. If you want to understand how these ideas play out across disciplines and regions, including Jordana's own presentation on transgovernmental networks, you can revisit the roundtable session. And let us your thoughts! 👇 As world leaders wrapped up this year's UN General Assembly, are we paying enough attention to the networks of public officials who turn regi