European Security Initiative

NATO at 75: The future of European defence  

  • Podcast
  • Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes

Vessela Tcherneva welcomes Camille Grand, Camille Lons, Marta Prochwicz Jazowska, and Jana Puglierin to discuss the 75th NATO summit, and how Europe can defend itself with less America

Defending Europe with less America

  • Camille Grand
  • Policy Brief

Shifting US priorities and a degrading security environment – not to mention the possibility of a second Trump presidency – mean Europeans finally have to take more responsibility for their own security

What the Weimar Triangle could do for Europe

  • Mark Leonard
  • Commentary

While the traditional Franco-German axis has fallen short of providing the kind of unifying leadership that the EU so desperately needs, the addition of Poland could change everything. And should Donald Trump win the US presidential election, this triumvirate would become Europe’s best hope for salvation

3 Jun

Disinformation storm. Managing the unmanageable?

  • NH Centro, Via dei Gracchi 324, Rome
  • ECFR Rome

The Russian large-scale invasion of Ukraine has opened many European pandora boxes. Among them, energy and economic dependence from Russia; EU’s reaction time to Putin’s aggression; European disunity; the military and defense question; Europe’s fragility in the technological competition. Last, but not least, Europe’s exposure to external actors’ influence, with consequences on the information space and the “Open Internet” era, undermined like never before by disinformation