Is Putin Winning, or Is He Trying not to Lose?
Nobody is in doubt, if anybody ever was, that Russia remains a great power. That much the tense stand-off over Ukraine has demonstrated. Whether President Putin’s moves have earned Russia […]
EU strategy and foreign policy
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The Commission proposal on reforming the Generalised Scheme of Tariff Preferences: analysis of human rights incentives and conditionalities
This study looks at the European Commission’s proposal for a new GSP Regulation from human rights and sustainable development perspectives. It focuses on proposed changes to the conditionality provisions with […]
The future of the Arctic region: what is at stake for Belgium?
The Arctic region is undergoing dramatic changes with multiple implications for the region and well-beyond, with profound geo-economic and geopolitical consequences. These major developments and especially the gravity of climate […]
Commentaries
Time for Europe to stand up to Putin
In Eastern Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for war. The European countries should strengthen their deterrence capacity and put an end to their dependence on Russian gas. *****
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Europe in the world in 2022: The transatlantic comeback?
Egmont Institute and EPC Research Fellow Guillaume Van der Loo contributed to the first-ever EPC Outlook Paper. In this paper, EPC’s Europe in the World programme presents a comprehensive overview of […]
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Euro-Atlantic Concerns regarding a US »Sole Purpose« Policy
The Belgian position on nuclear policy questions is generally framed as a dual track approach combining credible deterrence with the pursuit of détente. This harks back to the Harmel report […]
Events
The EU and Emerging Powers in the 21st Century
Programme Book launch (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The European Union in international affairs (EUIA) III
International academic conference with Herman Van Rompuy and Pierre Vimont – Programme EUIA Speech of Herman Van Rompuy (speech and video) (Photo credit: President-of-the-European-Council, Flickr)
Think Global Act European III (TGAE): the contribution of 16 European think tanks to the Polish, Danish and Cypriot trio presidency of the European Union
Conference Report (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Debating EU strategic partnerships
Roundtable with key EU officials. (Photo credit: EU Naval Force Media and Public info Office, Flickr)