The EU as regulatory superpower: can EU law be a geopolitical tool?
This week’s podcast episode sees very special participation from Anu Bradford, law professor at Columbia and author of “The Brussels Effect: How the European Union…
European Sovereignty
Time for a geopolitical Europe: A German answer to Macron
It is time for Paris and Berlin to join together to strengthen Europe internally, securing its place in a world of renewed competition
You better bring a book – the start of the EU’s lengthy budget talks
Negotiations over the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021 – 2027 just have started. But as tensions and divergences between the EU member states are…
Digital decolonisation: The EU’s new ideas on data and artificial intelligence
The EU is proposing a process of digital decolonisation, aiming to reduce its dependency on US and Chinese firms
Upstaged: Europe’s struggles to play the great tech game
This year’s Munich Security Conference showed once again that just two players will fight the global battle over tech. And guess who’s missing
21 Feb
Europas Handlungsfähigkeit: Lektionen aus der 5G Debatte
Thema des ersten Foreign Policy Clubs im neuen Jahr ist die 5G-Debatte und Europas Souveränität in den Bereichen des Technologie und digitalen Entwicklung. Mit Dr. Janka Oertel
Land of the lost: My trip to the Munich Security Conference
With such a smorgasbord of offerings, most people eat the familiar food and leave the conference pleasantly full of the same ideas that they entered with
To Huawei or not to Huawei?
Last week the European Commission published its EU Toolbox on 5G Cyber Security, with the aim of aiding the member states in evaluating the risks associated…
The risk of inaction: Economic threats against Europe
Washington and Beijing seem to interpret European inaction as weakness and an invitation for greater coercion in pursuit of their economic and geopolitical interests
Can Europe catch up in the digitalisation and innovation race?
During the Munich Strategy Forum 2019, host Mark Leonard sat down Toomas Ilves, the former president of Estonia aka the first smart country and “digital…