After Paris: What price European defence?
Following France’s call for European solidarity under Article 42.7, European states should rekindle defence cooperation and aid France’s deployments in Africa
Experts & Staff
Anand Menon
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Rather than picking low-hanging fruit, the government seems to have opted for targets that are neither low, nor particularly juicy
Anand Menon comments on the UK government’s cautious ‘reset’ with the EU
The UK’s relations with the EU are likely to be a key priority for a new government given not only the need to boost economic performance but also a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape
Anand Menon suggests that the EU is evolving in a direction that will make deeper cooperation with the UK harder
Voters’ awareness of foreign policy might be limited, but with Covid, and the war in Ukraine, and to an extent with Brexit, [that has now changed]
Anand Menon analyses Rishi Sunak’s recent foreign policy in light of the Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea
The EU is relatively happy with the status quo. It’s only in the UK where people say we need to move closer. There are so many bigger fish to fry for the EU
Anand Menon comments on the current relationship between the UK and EU
Five years on, then, and it is still not clear that the government can – or even knows how to – deliver to those voters who backed Brexit
ECFR Council member Anand Menon looks back on the past five years since the Brexit referendum