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Francisco de Borja Lasheras

Francisco de Borja Lasheras

ECFR Alumni · Head of ECFR Madrid Office & Policy Fellow

Areas of expertise

Multilateral diplomacy, European foreign and security policy, Spanish foreign policy, EU enlargement in the Western Balkans, Ukraine, nation-building

Languages

Spanish, English, French, German, conversational Serbo-Croat & basic Russian

Biography

Francisco de Borja Lasheras worked for ECFR until February 2018. 

European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2015

  • Julien Barnes-Dacey, Susi Dennison, Anthony Dworkin, Ellie Geranmayeh, François Godement, Andrew Hammond, Francisco de Borja Lasheras, Daniel Levy, Kadri Liik, Angela Stanzel, Rachel Tausendfreund, Mattia Toaldo, Andrew Wilson
  • Publication

The fifth edition of ECFR’s Foreign Policy Scorecard examines EU’s response to a year of crisis

The battle of Europe’s utopias

  • Francisco de Borja Lasheras
  • Commentary

The EU’s austerity policies have led to a fragmentation of its power, encouraging the rise of populist parties

Can Steinmeier and Hammond reset Bosnia?

  • Francisco de Borja Lasheras
  • Commentary

Halting Bosnia’s eight-year downward trend and boosting the country’s momentum towards Europe is the main goal of Steinmeier and Hammond’s proposal

The Finlandisation of Ukraine

  • Francisco de Borja Lasheras
  • Commentary

Influential voices are pushing for the Finlandisation of Ukraine, but this proposal ignores both the actual experience of Finland with the Soviet Union and the real causes of the present crisis with the Kremlin. 

Publications

European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2016

  • Susi Dennison (ed.)
  • Publication

The sixth ECFR Foreign Policy Scorecard highlights the EU’s diminishing ability to influence its neighbours, and the neighbourhood’s growing impact on the EU

European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2015

  • Julien Barnes-Dacey, Susi Dennison, Anthony Dworkin, Ellie Geranmayeh, François Godement, Andrew Hammond, Francisco de Borja Lasheras, Daniel Levy, Kadri Liik, Angela Stanzel, Rachel Tausendfreund, Mattia Toaldo, Andrew Wilson
  • Publication

The fifth edition of ECFR’s Foreign Policy Scorecard examines EU’s response to a year of crisis

Articles

A Great European Society?

  • Francisco de Borja Lasheras
  • Commentary

The return of identity politics and nationalism has put the postmodern Europe that sought to dilute and mitigate national and regional identities on the ropes

Curtain comes down on Balkan Hague tribunals

  • Francisco de Borja Lasheras
  • Commentary

Many crimes remain unanswered for, but with the Hague phase essentially over, it is about time for the difficult process of reconciliation

Views from the capitals: What to do about Turkey?

  • Francisco de Borja Lasheras, Almut Möller, Dina Pardijs, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, Tara Varma
  • Views from the Capitals

Can the EU-Turkey relationship be salvaged? Key EU capitals give their views

Views from the Capitals: Working with President Macron

  • Piotr Buras, Susi Dennison, Silvia Francescon, Josef Janning, Francisco de Borja Lasheras, Vessela Tcherneva
  • Views from the Capitals

Macron’s win was received with a sigh of relief across Europe, but what follows cannot be “politics as usual”. Can he garner support in the European Union?

Turn the search light outwards

  • Francisco de Borja Lasheras
  • Commentary

In focusing exclusively on Western crimes, parts of the European Left are letting Putin and Assad off the hook for Syria and Ukraine

Ukraine’s rising Euroscepticism

  • Francisco de Borja Lasheras
  • Commentary

Ukraine’s pivot towards the West has barely begun, but fatigue and frustration are already setting in

Letter to a besieged Europe

  • Francisco de Borja Lasheras
  • Commentary

Francisco de Borja Lasheras gives a wake-up call for Europe to address its most pressing challenges before it is too late

Podcasts

European Reactions to Macron’s Victory

  • Podcast
  • Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes

This week, rather than putting out our ordinary podcast, we're leaving the floor to Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, head of ECFR Paris, who's hosting a discussion…

ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Summer Readings

  • Podcast
  • Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR experts Vessela Tcherneva, Silvia Francescon, Ulrike Franke, Borja Lasheras, and board member Ivan Krastev, about summer readings. The…

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