The Nico Colchester fellowships were established in memory of Nico Colchester, who died in 1996 after an outstanding career at the Financial Times, The Economist and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Nico had a passion for writing about European politics, economics, and society—and his sharp, witty, authoritative analysis would have been especially precious today.
Between the migration crisis, the threat of terrorism, the rise of populism, the euro zone’s economic struggles and the Brexit vote, the very foundations of European integration have been called into question in recent years. But Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French election and the prospect of a new grand coalition in Germany have raised hopes that a new European dawn could be in store. Undoubtedly, Nico would have been able to tell this story like few others in his profession: just consider some of his most famous work, from his creation of a Mars Bar index—“a currency for our time”—to his division of the world, and its politicians, into the “soggy” and the “crunchy”.
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