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Dear readers, On April 1st, 2020, I took over from Ambassador Johan Verbeke as Director-General of the Egmont Institute. I would first of all like to thank my predecessor who […]
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In this commentary, Egmont senior researcher and affiliated senior researcher with the Leuven Institute of Criminology (University of Leuven) Valérie Arnould examines the human rights challenges the Covid-19 crisis poses […]
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Even the most dystopian science fiction novel usually is optimistic in one way: somehow humanity has always managed to create a planetary government. So when the aliens land and, true […]
This will change everything . It is an understandable feeling. When people pass through an ordeal, they want to believe that when all is over there will be some compensation. […]
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The Corona pandemic is changing the way we live and function as a society for at least the coming weeks or months. While it is a virus that does not […]
When Trump says that he wants NATO to take more responsibility in the Middle East, what he means is that he wants the European allies to do more. He is […]
Which responsibilities does Europe want to assume as a security provider outside its borders? Which military level of ambition does that political ambition entail? And what should the Common Security […]
The vagaries of Chancellor Merkel’s policy towards Russia over the past year, from friend and honest broker to stern enforcer of sanctions and then to prime mover of the Minsk-2 […]
The consensus on the foundations of European security has gradually eroded in recent years. The current crisis in and around Ukraine that has challenged the fundamental principles of international order […]
Dans la lignée des conférences consacrées depuis plusieurs années maintenant aux pays du voisinage Sud de l’Union européenne, l’Institut d’études européennes de l’Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles organise le 3 février […]