18 Mar
The Trump Alliance? Transatlantic Relations and US Presidential Election
Will the transatlantic partnership persist?
European Power
17 Mar
Europe’s Dilemmas and Western Balkans’ Perspectives
The refugee push from North Africa and the Middle East is a European problem, to which only common European policies would be the answer
17 Mar
Дилемите пред Европа и перспективите на Западните Балкани
Бежанският натиск от Северна Африка и Близкия Изток е европейски проблем, за който единствено общоевропейски политики биха дали решение
The EU trade strategy: Where is the “strategic” part?
Though individual goals of the EU’s trade strategy are laudable, by all usual definitions, it is not really a strategy at all
Obama’s Syria failure is a perfect case study in how bad foreign policy is made
The lesson is that even a president who has shown extraordinary awareness that the “Washington playbook” frequently dictates unwise military interventions often feels forced to compromise his policy
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: State elections in Germany
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks with Franziska Brantner, Member of the German Parliament and ECFR council member, and with Josef Janning, Senior Policy Fellow and…
15 Mar
Berlin Foreign Policy Club: Kontinent der Verzagten
We are currently witnessing deep divisions within and between European societies. What are their driving forces? What are the various perspectives on the series of crises in recent years and how did the European Union contribute to all of this? What can we do to overcome the existing divisions between politics and the European societies? There was indeed much to be talked of in another round of our Berlin Foreign Policy Club.
The German problem
How Angela Merkel’s handling of the refugee crisis emboldened the far right and led to troubling questions about her future as chancellor
The New Interventionists
As a new order takes shape, the roles countries have played for the last 25 years are likely to be reversed