Untapped potential: How new alliances can strengthen the EU
Fragmentation in the EU makes it increasingly difficult for member states to build coalitions. The EU Coalition Explorer reveals potential new groupings.
Rethink:Europe
Germany and the crisis of Atlanticism
With the US opting out of its traditional European role, the “German question” has returned. And European leaders will need to make sacrifices if they are to address it.
European cohesion and the Visegrád group: The importance of hearts and minds
Where structural cohesion increases but individual cohesion declines, Euroscepticism can still thrive. The Visegrad countries need to invest in people's European experiences.
Cohesion or disintegration? Germany’s European election campaign
“Zusammenhalt” is a buzzword in the European election manifestos of the German parties. But what does it exactly mean in the political discourse?
Dutch leadership: the end of mere pragmatism?
The Netherlands seems prepared to find a new way of balancing the power of the Franco-German tandem
German leadership deferred
Germany needs to use its EU Council presidency in 2020 to continue forging cloes ties with and between its partners in the EU to push for comprimises on long-term policy issues
Pioneer and far: Estonia’s European ambitions
Estonian expertise can be of great use in strengthening Europe’s digital society, connecting governing institutions and citizens at the EU level, and improving connectivity between European countries
11 Apr
Wie steht es um den Zusammenhalt in Europa vor der Europawahl?
Diskussion und Vorstellung des neuen EU Cohesion Monitor
EU Cohesion Monitor 2019: The untold story of European resilience
ECFR’s newly released Cohesion Monitor charts a decade of upheaval in Europe – and reveals that European cohesion is now, in fact, stronger than in the pre-crisis year of 2007
A blueprint for measuring European cohesion
Learn about the methodological framework of the EU Cohesion Monitor and the quest for better pan-European data