Europe’s future depends on the energy choices it makes today. Can Europe secure cleaner, more affordable and more reliable energy, and build the infrastructure its industries need, to face a more turbulent world? Join leading policymakers, business representatives and experts for the debate, and put your questions to them
Secure, sovereign, competitive – that is the ambition for a Europe able to withstand the geopolitical and economic turmoil of the current moment. A Europe that can deliver on this ambition will need abundant energy to power its future, foundational industry that is able to innovate, and diversified supply chains that ensure resilience. …
What happens when powers no longer agree on the rules, or even on what international order should look like? In his new book, Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail, Mark Leonard calls this condition “Un-Order”. He distinguishes between “architects”, who seek to build a stable system, and “artisans”, who adapt to changing…
As global power becomes more dispersed, the relationship between Europe (and the West) and China is increasingly shaped not only by trade and security but by differing conceptions of order, legitimacy, and development. This event brings together two prominent voices to explore those conceptions in frank and balanced terms. Professor Zhang Weiwei is one…
Amid growing uncertainty, Europeans face a fundamental challenge: how to keep themselves safe with potentially less America while deterring a more aggressive Russia. Europe’s security environment has been exposed to vulnerabilities not only on the battlefield but also across cyberspace, critical infrastructure, supply chains, energy networks, and the information sphere. Hybrid threats have become a…
For two decades the United Arab Emirates has built its influence on connectivity: ports, air links, finance and data centres that made Abu Dhabi and Dubai difficult to bypass. The 2026 war with Iran has tested that model harder than anything before it. By the ceasefire in April, Emirati air defences had engaged more…
Turkey hosted this year’s NATO summit and fields the alliance’s second-largest army, arms Ukraine while trading with Russia, and remains an EU candidate whose accession talks collapsed years ago. Europeans keep asking whether Ankara can be anchored in the West or is drifting away. Both questions assume Turkey must eventually choose a home when…
China is already the undisputed champion of traditional manufacturing. But China’s leadership wants more: it aspires to lead in the next generation of production by 2035 – and biomanufacturing has emerged as a priority for China’s economic security, resilience and strategic autonomy. Europe has seen this movie before. As with solar panels or…
La chiusura dello Stretto di Hormuz ha posto l’Europa di fronte a una doppia sfida: ripensare la transizione energetica in un contesto di forte incertezza sugli idrocarburi e sviluppare nuove rotte di connettività per ridurre la vulnerabilità a shock geopolitici. Tra i temi al centro del confronto: l’elettrificazione come pilastro necessario ma non sufficiente,…
L’Ufficio di Roma dello European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), in collaborazione con il Centro Studi Americani, Aspen Institute Italia, Geopolitica.info, Airpress e Osservatorio Artico, ha preso parte alla conferenza “Spazio e Artico: arene della competizione geopolitica contemporanea“, che si è tenuta il 16 giugno 2026 presso il Centro Studi Americani, Via Michelangelo Caetani…
In a private discussion on EU and UK attitudes towards a renewed partnership, a decade after the referendum, Mark Leonard and Marcus Roberts will present some embargoed data from ECFR and Mandate looking at views in the UK but also across Europe on different modalities of the EU-UK relationship going forward…
La oficina de Madrid de ECFR reunió a periodistas especializados en un media briefing con Ellie Geranmayeh sobre el programa nuclear iraní y el panel interactivo «Iran Nuclear Monitor: Month by Month»