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
Diplomacy at the service of Peace
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 […]
Should the EU make foreign policy-decisions by majority voting?
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, […]
EU Strategic Autonomy: which military level of ambition
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?
Russia and Europe in the context of global migration (fully booked!)
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 […]