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“What should the EU do?” This is how most, if not all, policymakers in the Belgian foreign ministry react when a crisis occurs in, say, Ukraine or Syria. But as […]
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“What should the EU do?” This is how most, if not all, policymakers in the Belgian foreign ministry react when a crisis occurs in, say, Ukraine or Syria. But as […]
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As China announced the launch of its new development bank, the AIIB, the lack of debate in many EU capitals – and at the EU level itself – was particularly striking. Is […]
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Sven Biscop outlines how we should think about strategy in the context of a forthcoming reflection on a new strategy for EU foreign policy.
China will launch a new development bank for Asia later this year, called the AIIB. 58 countries worldwide have already applied to become founding members, including numerous Western nations.
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Sven Biscop outlines a realistic but real ambition for the Belgian armed forces. The key though is long-term budgetary stability. This article is available in Dutch only. This commentary appeared […]
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Sven Biscop asks his readers to look back at and question the original raison d’être of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy.
!!! La conférence est malheureusement reportée à une date ultérieure étant donné les mesures de sécurité liées à la pandémie de COVID-19 !!! Unfortunately the conference has been postponed to […]
— CANCELLED — Assistant Secretary-General Michèle Coninsx, Executive Director of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) will discuss the UN’s role in counter-terrorism, and current terrorism […]
L’Institut d’études européennes de l’Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles organise avec la collaboration de : ECES, Beyond the Horizon, EU- LOGOS la conférence annuelle ‘Voisinages’. « Assistons-nous à une perte d’influence […]
In this report, the KCMD adopted a new perspective to investigate the complex relationship between voting preferences and attitudes towards migration across the EU. In particular, the project investigates the […]