Sam Denney is a Europe Fellow with the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. He has worked as an intern for the Europe Practice at the Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington, DC, for the European Union Affairs unit at the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf, and for the Committee on Affairs of the European Union in the German Bundestag in Berlin. He has been published in the Transatlantic Leadership Network. To engage with him on this article follow him on Twitter @samddenney.