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Why Belgium is not Europe’s jihadi base
International experts and journalists have resorted to Belgium-bashing and finger-pointing. They call Belgium a “failed state,” our police and intelligence services “incompetent.”
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International experts and journalists have resorted to Belgium-bashing and finger-pointing. They call Belgium a “failed state,” our police and intelligence services “incompetent.”
The EU’s effective multilateralism doctrine is hardly a defining characteristic of the international system of today. While established multilateral structures are far from reflective of the realities of the twenty-first […]
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After the attacks in Brussels, investing in Europe is the only answer: European intelligence, European defence, European democracy, says Sven Biscop.
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In this final articke in a five-part series on defence and the EU Global Strategy, Luis Simón argues that any European strategy must not neglect the geopolitically relevant spaces in between […]
In today’s world, cooperation and competition co-exist. The same powers that work against each other in one case, are working together in the other. Is a value-based EU foreign policy […]
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In this fourth contribution in a five-part series on defence and the EU Global Strategy, Alexander Mattelaer looks at transatlantic burden-sharing and European defence.
By Staffan de Mistura, Former Under-Secretary-General, UN Special Envoy for Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon He will share with us his experience as special UN envoy in his successive peace missions […]
Lunch lecture with Leonard Schuette, the Clara Marina O’Donnell Fellow at the Centre for European Reform in London. As a result of the return of power politics to international politics, […]
Visit of the European Studies Programme of the United States Army War College (Pennsylvania) to attend a lecture by Jo Coelmont on EU Strategic Autonomy: which military level of ambition?
Fully booked. Over the centuries and millennia, migration has shaped the world’s history and geography. However, never before has it been so prominent in people’s preoccupations and on political agendas […]