This workshop, held to mark Professor Nicolaidis’ years at Oxford University (1999-2023), will feature her former and current DPhil students as impulse givers and bring friends and colleagues together candidly to discuss our contemporary European predicament and take stock of the trajectory of the European project and its global ramifications. The hope is that we can engage honestly in scrutinising our concern for human betterment and transformative potential in the European and global context.