During her first visit to Kyiv on 21 February 2023, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reassured President Zelensky concerning the Italian commitment to the Ukrainian resistance and defence
Silvia Samorè writes about the challenges and opportunities of the post-conflict reconstruction in Ukraine
The condition for Skopje to start negotiations with the EU is indisputable – inclusion of Bulgarians in the constitution
In a turbulent international context, they have lived up to the expectations placed in them, both in terms of support for Ukraine and the legislative agenda
Mats Engström comments on the results achieved by Sweden as holder of the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU in recent months
Mark Leonard cites far-right relations with the EU as another example of their ‘centrification’
People mostly say that the risks and benefits are balanced, so they do not recognize that economic relationship with China as particularly risky and therefore requiring some rebalancing
Jana Puglierin writes about the need for EU leaders to reconcile ambitions abroad with public opinion at home
This unthinkable scenario resembles a similar arrangement in Romania, in what could be described as a natural experiment in political governance from key Balkan EU and NATO member states
The Germans are obsessed with spending the €100 billion they have allocated to increase their defence budget
Camille Grand comments on European defence policy and the difficulty of acting collectively on these issues
There is an enormous gap between the ambitions that the strategy outlines and fiscal reality
