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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.
On the occasion of the launch of the Dutch translation of Åsne Seierstad’s book Two Sisters, the Egmont Institute and the Norwegian Embassy have the pleasure of inviting you to: […]
Many European politicians and officials have marked Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) as a breakthrough in European defence cooperation. Many think tank experts and other observers have been somewhat more sceptical. […]
The event analyses the regional situation of Jihadist movements in the Mediterranean and the EU. It focuses on drivers of extremism and its longstanding tradition in the affected countries and […]
The Egmont Institute and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) aim to jointly explore how countries in the Southern Mediterranean perceive and respond to the challenge of returning fighters. The main idea is […]