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Since my husband has taken to spraying the door handles with vodka, our apartment has begun to resemble Stalin’s politburo: you cannot leave when you want to, and there will […]
Commentaries
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 […]
Commentaries
The coronavirus crisis exposed quite a few shortcomings in how governments deal with crises. Managing the vulnerabilities of dependencies is one of them. This article was first published in Encompass-Europe. […]
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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 […]
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The European Commission’s proposal for a ‘Just Transition Mechanism’ has rapidly become a contentious aspect of the European Green Deal. The mechanism supports the EU’s goal of achieving climate neutrality […]
The corona crisis, the US-China great power competition and lacklustre international rules vividly demonstrate the vulnerability of economic interdependence. Interdependence is a power struggle, not a mutual aid society. For […]
The EU went into the year 2022 with a security crisis on its eastern flank, as a result (once more) of Russia’s aggressive pursuit of a sphere of interest. Simultaneously, […]
On 1 December 2021, the National Security Council adopted Belgium’s first National Security Strategy (NSS). During the drafting process, Egmont, at the request of the Strategic Committee for Intelligence and […]
The traditional annual joint training on Civilian Crisis Management will be reconveyed for a two-week training from November 15 to 26 as a way of fostering and sharing a comprehensive […]
A new session of the Belgian Generic Training (BGT) will take place at the Egmont Palace from October 14 to 25 for 7 candidates selected by the MFA, the Federal […]