Politanalyse is built by researchers, former policy advisors, and data specialists who believe a healthy democracy depends on clear, evidence-based public reasoning. Meet the people who turn complexity into clarity.
Every published analysis is signed, sourced, and reviewed. Our team combines academic training with hands-on experience in parliaments, ministries, and civil-society organisations — a blend we believe is essential to producing analysis that is both rigorous and useful in real public debates.
Former adviser to a French MEP, Élise leads our coverage of the European Parliament, the Council, and inter-institutional negotiations. She holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po and focuses on legislative procedure, trilogues, and coalition dynamics inside the hemicycle.
Jonas runs our data desk. A former statistician at the German Federal Returning Officer, he designs the visualisations, polling models, and district-level datasets that underpin our electoral analyses. He also leads our post-election audit series.
Sara covers judicial independence, media freedom, and anti-corruption frameworks across the EU and Council of Europe. Before joining Politanalyse she worked at the European Court of Human Rights and a Brussels-based think tank. She writes our annual Rule of Law Index.
Pierre tracks the fit-for-55 package, the CBAM rollout, and the politics of the European Green Deal. He spent six years at a French ministry of economic affairs and translates complex regulatory files into readable analysis for both policymakers and engaged citizens.
Anya covers the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, and AI governance, with a special interest in enforcement patterns across member states. She was previously a research fellow at a Brussels-based tech policy institute and holds a master's in EU law from the College of Europe.
Mehmet covers EU enlargement, the Western Balkans, and the Union's neighbourhood. A former OSCE election observer, he brings an on-the-ground perspective to our foreign-policy coverage and writes our weekly European affairs brief.
These are not slogans. They are the criteria our editors apply before publication, and the standards readers can hold us to when something is published. Each value is enforced by a named person on the team — see the byline on every piece.
Politanalyse accepts no funding from governments, parties, or companies with a direct stake in the policies we cover. Our analysis is independent. It is not — and cannot be — neutral on facts, on methodology, or on the health of democratic institutions.
Every claim of fact is linked to a primary or verifiable secondary source. Every dataset we publish comes with methodology notes and, where possible, the underlying data. We name our sources when they ask to be named; we explain why when they do not.
Complex policy deserves clear writing, not oversimplification. We aim for the register of a well-briefed colleague: technical where it must be, accessible where it can be, and never condescending to the reader who took the time to open the piece.
Beyond the core team, Politanalyse publishes work from a curated network of academics, civil-society researchers, and former officials. They sign their own pieces, and their contributions are reviewed under the same editorial standards as our staff analysis.
Politanalyse is growing — and we are always interested in hearing from researchers with a clear voice and rigorous method. Whether you are an experienced analyst or a doctoral candidate with a sharp first piece, we would like to read your work.