6 Dec
Securing Critical Raw Materials: Europe’s strategy to compete
The event will convene a select group of European decision-makers and opinion-shapers from across business, civil society, European governments and the European Commission
Experts & Staff
Franziska Brantner (currently on leave)
Parliamentary State Secretary, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Biography
Franziska Brantner has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013 and was appointed parliamentary state secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in 2021. She was previously the spokesperson for European policy and parliamentary secretary of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. Prior to joining the Bundestag, she was a member of the European Parliament, where she served as foreign policy spokesperson for the Green/EFA Group. She has also worked for the Bertelsmann Foundation in Brussels, consulting on EU foreign policy issues.
The true value of European sovereignty
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has underlined the importance of European sovereignty. The EU should now invest boldly in its military capabilities, cyber-defences, energy independence, and economic resilience.
A foreign policy for a Green Germany
How would a (partially) Green government affect German foreign policy?
15 Mar
European Power in a Biden Era: what role for France and Germany?
ECFR’s latest polling finds that Europeans celebrated Joe Biden’s victory but are sceptical that we will see a global resurgence of US power and…
The global impact of the European Green Deal
What are the geopolitical repercussions of the European Green Deal?
We need to pull our own weight
European strategic sovereignty means the capacity to preserve and foster human rights, liberal democracy, multilateralism, and a social and green market economy in an interdependent and complex world
29 Sep
ECFR x Intelligence² Germany – Debate: The European Green Deal is not fit for purpose
The European Commission has called the Green Deal, Europe’s “man on the moon” moment. But the stark reality is that it is impossible to solve the bio…
Europe must end its silence on Syria
ECFR Council members call for European states to provide emergency airlift services in Aleppo and implement additional sanctions on Russia for its complicity in war crimes
The Libyan context of the migration crisis
Merely attacking smugglers’ boats will not help; instead, the EU must address the civil war that lies behind the traffickers’ actions
The IKEA guide to Lisbon
Implementing the Lisbon Treaty is the bureaucratic equivalent of putting together an IKEA flat-pack table. First step: read the instructions.
Articles
The true value of European sovereignty
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has underlined the importance of European sovereignty. The EU should now invest boldly in its military capabilities, cyber-defences, energy independence, and economic resilience.
We need to pull our own weight
European strategic sovereignty means the capacity to preserve and foster human rights, liberal democracy, multilateralism, and a social and green market economy in an interdependent and complex world
Europe must end its silence on Syria
ECFR Council members call for European states to provide emergency airlift services in Aleppo and implement additional sanctions on Russia for its complicity in war crimes
The Libyan context of the migration crisis
Merely attacking smugglers’ boats will not help; instead, the EU must address the civil war that lies behind the traffickers’ actions
The IKEA guide to Lisbon
Implementing the Lisbon Treaty is the bureaucratic equivalent of putting together an IKEA flat-pack table. First step: read the instructions.
A new world of diplomacy
We need diplomats to liaise with cities and regions
Backsliding on human rights
The EU and their allies have to get their act together on human rights. Lives are at risk.
A confused EU cannot fight racism
The debacle in the UN could be the precursor of more clashes over human rights, with Europe as a target
How MEPs can help save the UN Human Rights Council
A European Parliament debate on the EU?s role on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) comes at an embarrassing moment
Europe’s UN human rights problem
There are clear signs that the EU’s influence at the UN is declining in one of the areas on which it is most united: human rights
Podcasts
A foreign policy for a Green Germany
How would a (partially) Green government affect German foreign policy?
The global impact of the European Green Deal
What are the geopolitical repercussions of the European Green Deal?
Events
6 Dec
Securing Critical Raw Materials: Europe’s strategy to compete
The event will convene a select group of European decision-makers and opinion-shapers from across business, civil society, European governments and the European Commission
15 Mar
European Power in a Biden Era: what role for France and Germany?
ECFR’s latest polling finds that Europeans celebrated Joe Biden’s victory but are sceptical that we will see a global resurgence of US power and…
29 Sep
ECFR x Intelligence² Germany – Debate: The European Green Deal is not fit for purpose
The European Commission has called the Green Deal, Europe’s “man on the moon” moment. But the stark reality is that it is impossible to solve the bio…
In the media
A sovereign and secure Europe does not come for free. The moment to invest decisively in an EU capable of action and defense is now.
ECFR Board and Council member Franziska Brantner calls for more investment in the EU’s strategic sovereignty in the military, digital, energy and economic sectors
So I think it is absurd, in the sense of ‘we have to be resilient and be able to protect our own population,’ that we in Germany are not ready to rely on European actors
ECFR Board Member Franziska Brantner explains the need for more European sovereignty, including in the area of digital 5G infrastucture
Nord Stream 2 is and remains an anti-European project
ECFR Board member Franziska Brantner on relations with Russia and the Nord Stream 2 project