Building on the success and results of the 2023 Project “France-Italy-Germany Trilateral Dialogue: in Pursuit of a common agenda”, the 2024 Quadrilateral Project will continue to promote intra-European dialogue between capitals, extending last year’s trilateral format to Spain
To develop a new approach to defence, European states need to bury their longstanding disputes and learn from Ukrainians’ experiences on the battlefield
Support for Ukraine is both morally correct and in the best interests of the EU. Europeans should use this moment of unity to address several long-term challenges linked to the conflict.
Denys Davydenko, Margaryta Khvostova, Dmytro Kryvosheiev, Olga Lymar
Commentary
Ukraine’s Western partners now recognise that it can defeat Russia. Yet they need to provide the guarantees of long-term support that will make this a reality.
Although Europe has begun to make up for years of neglect in terms of defence spending, it remains woefully ill-equipped to win over other countries through the power of attraction and persuasion. Each side in the European culture war is uniquely unappealing to billions of people around the world.
The goal of preserving European unity could hinder the EU’s fight against democratic backsliding in Hungary. To remain a community of values, the union needs to keep up the pressure on the country’s leader.
To develop a new approach to defence, European states need to bury their longstanding disputes and learn from Ukrainians’ experiences on the battlefield
Support for Ukraine is both morally correct and in the best interests of the EU. Europeans should use this moment of unity to address several long-term challenges linked to the conflict.
Denys Davydenko, Margaryta Khvostova, Dmytro Kryvosheiev, Olga Lymar
Commentary
Ukraine’s Western partners now recognise that it can defeat Russia. Yet they need to provide the guarantees of long-term support that will make this a reality.
Although Europe has begun to make up for years of neglect in terms of defence spending, it remains woefully ill-equipped to win over other countries through the power of attraction and persuasion. Each side in the European culture war is uniquely unappealing to billions of people around the world.
The goal of preserving European unity could hinder the EU’s fight against democratic backsliding in Hungary. To remain a community of values, the union needs to keep up the pressure on the country’s leader.
The EU should immediately impose a temporary embargo on Russian energy imports. If the union waits any longer, it will be too late – and the political costs will be huge.
Building on the success and results of the 2023 Project “France-Italy-Germany Trilateral Dialogue: in Pursuit of a common agenda”, the 2024 Quadrilateral Project will continue to promote intra-European dialogue between capitals, extending last year’s trilateral format to Spain
As part of its analysis of external challenges for Europe’s cohesion and capacity to act, Rethink: Europe hosted an informal scenario workshop in Warsaw on the future of European foreign policy in light of the shifting power balance in Asia
In the media
I think that if Europe is blocked today, it is not by the economy. Nor is it really blocked by politics. It is blocked by anthropology.
Pascal Lamy explains the situation in which Europe finds itself today
In Davos we can see that everything has changed: politics is back in the driver’s seat, and geopolitics is increasingly determining economic and business prospects. Europe risks marginality
Mark Leonard comments on the role and future of Europe from the World Economic Forum in Davos
The EU got tired of the fact that China doesn’t take seriously its economic and security concerns: indeed, this Summit might be the most conflictual in terms of rhetoric
Alicja Bachulska comments on the EU-China Summit’s possible outcomes
Law and Justice is threatening a radical change to the EU treaties that will not happen. But at the same time it makes it difficult for a future government to discuss the necessary reform of the Union
Piotr Buras criticises PiS’ narrative on proposed treaty changes
The key challenge for Europeans in their relationship with the US is the lack of a consensus on handling it, which impairs the development of a cohesive European foreign policy
Jeremy Shapiro on how the EU can prepare to 2024 US presidential elections
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