Sabina Maria Ciofu and Nicolae Stefanuta

Sabina Maria Ciofu is policy advisor in the European Parliament, working on digital economy, foreign affairs and trade issues. She is a first year PhD candidate at King's College London, where she explores the relationship between big data and US foreign policy. She holds a BA in Classics from Cambridge and an MA in War Studies from King's College London. Nicolae Stefanuta is a master’s graduate at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Prior to joining Georgetown, he has been working with the European Union since 2007, in various public policy areas, budget, agriculture and EU-US relations. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s in advanced international studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria and in European studies from the University of Vienna.

TTIP, the Bullied Kid of Twitter

With the 12th round of negotiations due in early 2016, proponents and critics of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, an agreement aiming to lift trade barriers between the European Union and the United States, are struggling to win the hearts and minds of social media users. While both the tone and the intensity of […]