EU strategic culture

The coronavirus world order

Mark Leonard Podcast 8 January 2021

How can we explain the current crisis of the liberal international order?

Berlin’s untenable foreign-policy strategic vacuum

Josef Janning Note from Berlin 4 October 2018

Berlin can no longer afford to float ideas that have no practical consequences, and keep muddling through

Courting Nero: Macron, Merkel, and the state of relations with Trump

Josef Janning Note from Berlin 3 May 2018

Trips to Washington by the French and German leaders made barely a dent in Trump’s attitude towards his own close allies

The European budget talks: Financial threat to a global Europe

Susi Dennison Commentary 16 April 2018

Although talks on the EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) might appear dull on the surface, we should force ourselves to take notice of them and emphasise the long-term importance of the external tranche of the budget

Berlin’s European agenda

Mark Leonard Commentary 22 January 2018

The next German government must lead the way in forging European consensus on migration, foreign policy, and a common system of values. This means it will have to think bigger than ever before.