Strategic Choices for the 2020s
These past few years, the European Union (EU) has taken various decisions which, when taken together, amount to a careful repositioning in international politics. Let us be bold and call […]
EU and strategic partners
Publications
Europe in the face of US-China rivalry
This report explores how Europe is responding to increased US-Chinese geopolitical rivalry. It contains 18 country perspectives on Europe’s difficult balancing act between the US, a long-term strategic and economic […]
Commentaries
Regionalisation of Transitional Justice Frameworks in Africa and Europe
In this blog post, Valerie Arnould, compares and contrasts the transitional justice policy frameworks adopted by the African Union and the European Union. Alongisde the elements of converge, she highlights the […]
Other publications
EU-U.S. Consensus and NATO-EU Cooperation
Whether or not NATO will continue to exist into the next decades depends on whether the United States and the EU continue to share a broad outlook on the world. […]
Europe and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: growing concerns, more strategy
Geopolitical shifts are engendering a transformation of the globalized economic order that has flourished in the post-Cold War period. This trend runs deep and raises structural challenges, – such as […]
The EU-Mercosur agreement: towards integrated climate policy?
The recently signed EU-Mercosur agreement has met with criticism from civil society, farmers and politicians around the EU. These criticisms have been amplified by recent forest fires in the Amazon. […]
Events
The EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: A European-Asian Conversation
Watch the recording of the webinar on YouTube. The Indo-Pacific region has become a focal point for competition between the great powers and other states, but also for new partnerships. […]
European Union in International Affairs (EUIA) Conference on Assessing the EU’s Capacity to Act
The ‘European Union in International Affairs’ (EUIA) Conference provides a major forum for academics and policy-makers to debate the role of the EU in the turbulent realm of international affairs. After a […]
Strategic autonomy and the transformation of the EU
The increasingly complex and competitive international environment pushes the EU and its member states to rethink some basic tenets of the Union’s economic, foreign and security policy. EU strategic autonomy […]
‘China’s Soft Power in Europe: Falling on Hard Times’
You are cordially invited to join a webinar hosted by The European Think Tank Network on China (ETNC) to launch its most recent report: ‘China’s Soft Power in Europe: Falling […]