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
Measuring transatlantic burden-sharing
In the run up to the NATO Brussels Summit, Egmont is teaming up with the Center for Strategic and International Studies to shed light on one of the most difficult […]
NATO-EU : An Alliance and a Union
NATO and the EU are often mentioned together. Officially, cooperation is said to be fine and even improving, covering more and more dimensions. Yet for decades now questions are also […]
100 years of modern Georgia: an interrupted history
«Si quelques années avant la guerre, des militants informés des choses internationales, pénétrés des idées fondamentales du marxisme, s’étaient posé la question de savoir quelle serait la première capitale où […]
Power and Power Games Europe, the US, China and Russia
Our concerns about the foreign policy of the US, the ambition of China, and the strategy of Russia demonstrate that History certainly has not come to an end. We are […]