Cohesion & Governance

Brexit and Britain’s security

  • Katharina Botel-Azzinnaro, Nick Witney
  • Video

Nigel Inkster, former MI6 board member, and Nick Witney, former chief executive of the European Defence Agency and co-director of ECFR's European Power programme, give us their perspectives

Europe or the open sea? Brexit and European security

  • Erica Moret
  • Commentary

By voting to leave the EU the UK may lose its voice at a time when the union aims to play a strategically greater role in European defence, security and foreign policy

20 Apr

Coalitions, Power, Preferences

  • ECFR Berlin

Rethink: Europe workshop on EU member state interaction discusses coalition survey results and EU power taxonomy

Britain might leave the EU. Here’s why Americans should care.

  • Jeremy Shapiro
  • Commentary

The collapse of European integration could potentially mean an end to the stability, order, and prosperity that the US worked very hard and spent a lot of money to help Europe achieve. And while it's unlikely we'd see a return to anything like the 20th century's massive world wars, the consequences could still extend far beyond Europe's borders.

13 Apr

Black Coffee Morning: “Bremain vs Brexit – Großbritannien vor dem Referendum”

  • ECFR Berlin

Staying or leaving? A question, that is deciding the future for Greatbritain and the EU. Proeuropean parties as well as persons being pro-Brexit are trying to influence the mood in the population. Though, most voters are still undecided. Not even 10 percent of all Britains think that the EU would be an important political topic.Where are we currently standing and what can Europe or Germany do? What are the most likely scenarios? These and other questions were dicussed this morning at the ECFR Berlin. 

The drawbridge fallacy

  • Mark Leonard
  • Article

Terrorist attacks in Brussels were quickly pounced on by Brexit supporters, but is Britain's security is strengthened by EU cooperation?