If we want to deal with Russia, we need to understand it. But the EU doesn’t want to.
In spite of Czech and Polish objections, the Obama administration was right to drop plans for radars and rocket interceptors in central Europe.
Ukraines’s YES annual conference in Yalta is the closest thing Ukraine has to Russia’s Valdai to promote its image.
Nous sommes face à la consécration d’un mythe fondateur, celui d’une superpuissance.
As the world tries to deal with a rebellius Iran, Europe keeps on discussing internally. A ‘yes’ in Ireland would put an end to this.
All we have really done is change the decision-making body, while the causes and symptoms of the financial crisis remain unchecked.
It has been a sensationally dull electoral campaign, but the result is anything but.
A second rejection of the Lisbon Treaty would shunt Europe into a constitutional impasse .
With the Ireland’s October 2 polling date edging closure, what will be the likely result for Lisbon?
Open letter: Twenty years after half of Europe was freed, a new wall is being built - across Georgia.
We have to find a way to end our internal divisions and restore our leadership.
The EU and their allies have to get their act together on human rights. Lives are at risk.
The Lisbon Treaty may increase the EU’s chances of developing a foreign policy that is both coherent and strong.
Does the eastern neighbourhood want to join forces with Russia, be part of the EU or go it alone?
An open letter on the Latvian economic crisis, signed by ECFR members, including Martti Ahtisaari, Mark Leonard and George Soros.
This latest edition of “China Analysis” looks at the response to the Copenhagen conference within China itself, as it faces the worst environment position imaginable, threatening its systems and interests.
China is now a huge foreign policy challenge to the EU: it must respond with a global China policy.
Risk of instability in the Western Balkans: the EU can no longer 'wait-and-see'.
The Yanukovych Paradox: How Ukraine’s new president can be good news for Europe after all.
The latest issue of China Analysis looks at Beijing’s willingness to strengthen international economic governance, and its authors argue that much thinking in China seems to focus on the short term
The authors of the latest issue of China Analysis argue that Western concerns over “Chindia” - the emergence of a Sino-Indian economic power bloc or strategic alliance - may be unwarranted.
Europe has the US president it wished for, but does Barack Obama have the strong transatlantic partner he wants?
Have broken promises and treating Afghanistan, DR Congo and Iraq like Bosnia left the EU without the capacity to prevent fragile states from becoming failing states?
ECFR publishes a collection of views from key Russian intellectuals.
The EU’s ongoing loss of influence at the UN is putting lives at risk, argues the author of ECFR’s latest paper.
Thomas Klau on Germany’s linchpin role in the eurozone governance debate.
Ulrike Guerot on Germany's place in Europe, post euro crisis.
Andrew Wilson says Ukraine's greatest success has been its 'survival'.