What does the crisis mean for Europe - its member states, institutions and policies? How can the EU protect, and expand, its project during the crisis? How can Europe use the economic crisis to push for common solutions to global problems?

The economic crisis has hit Europe hard. ECFR's experts have been analysising what the crisis means for the future of the EU's foreign policy and global outlook.

ECFR's work on the crisis 

• “Europe in a world of crisis”. Both a timely and vast topic. It was also the theme for ECFR’s latest council meeting, held in Stockholm (the current seat of the EU Presidency) on 10-12 May. Click here for more information. 
•  ECFR's Berlin office held a high level meeting on 7 May, dealing with many of the issues posed by the economic crisis. For more information on this event, please click here.
  
• Mark Leonard presented his paper, EU-Russia relations: Is the global economic crisis another false opportunity? at an experts seminar on EU policy on Russia on 23 April 2009.
  
• ECFR and Asia Centre published the March edition of China Analysis: China and the global crisis: Will Beijing be part of the solution?.

See more examples of ECFR's work on the economic crisis in the below commentary pieces.