This discussion will explore what the EU can and should do to exercise its competence over investment policy efficiently, and especially in the case of politicized investor-related disputes.
After over three weeks of intense protests, Turkish analysts Karabekir Akkoyunlu and Ziya Meral will look at the implications and fallout from these demonstrations
Tom Wright from Brookings will discuss how the United States and its allies should adjust their strategy to preserve and strengthen the international order in a more geopolitically competitive world
More and more citizens are revolting against Europe and, where they see them as extensions of “Brussels”, against national institutions too. While Centrist elites are besieged by populism, large swaths of the populations seems definitively lost for the European project
Should Europe simply retire from global governance? Or are there assets on which it can draw in order to play an influential role as a new world order emerges? This event is free and open to all
Dr Manna will lay out his thoughts on the competing ambitions of regime and opposition forces, deteriorating domestic and regional fault lines, particularly deepening sectarianism, as well as his own vision for a way forward
Russia is undergoing the sharpest crackdown on the opposition in almost twenty years. Has Putin defeated the opposition? And how far can he go without triggering a backlash?
Is it now impossible for EU states to remain true to the principle of “fellow citizen favouritism” and also to the rules of the EU?
Thomas Graham and Andrei Soldatov will discuss the internal dynamics and contradictions of the Russian regime and their implications on the country’s actions and interests in the international arena
While the discussion will focus on Israel and Iran's respective perceptions and policies, Ali Ansari and Nadav Eyal will also touch on how these play out in regional developments and notably the Syria conflict.