Russia’s hybrid interference in Germany’s refugee policy
Russian-sponsored anti-refugee rhetoric in Germany bears the hallmarks of a hybrid intervention
European Power
The end of the Merkel consensus?
Despite its structural power at EU level, the German coalition government led by Angela Merkel has failed to come up with a sound response…
What Russia thinks of Europe
Since 2014-15 “the West” has been overwhelmingly seen in Russia as an enemy seeking to undermine and destroy Russia
2 Feb
The end of the Merkel consensus?
Can Merkel keep the European and domestic coalition afloat?
ECFR Scorecard 2016 Special – Multilateral Issues and Crisis Management
Richard Gowan, Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR and Professor at Columbia University, explains why the EU received a B- for how it dealt with…
ECFR Scorecard 2016 Special – United States
Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR's Research Director, explains why the EU received a B grade for its foreign policies on the United States. You can…
Germany’s gambit: Turkey and the refugee crisis
With domestic pressure over migration numbers growing, Angela Merkel is the EU leader most eager to engage with Turkey
28 Jan
Black Coffee Morning “Polen, Ungarn, Frankreich…wachsender Nationalismus in der EU”
Where is Poland heading? What EU-instruments could convince the Polish government? Very lively discussion with Piotr Buras and Joachim Bleicker.
European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2016
The sixth ECFR Foreign Policy Scorecard highlights the EU’s diminishing ability to influence its neighbours, and the neighbourhood’s growing impact on the EU
25 Jan
Berlin launch “Connectivity Wars”
Europe in a geo-economics world. Rethink: Europe launches essay collection in Berlin.