ECFR Alumni · Director of the Wider Europe Programme
European foreign policy, conflict and crisis management, state-building, counter-piracy, South Caucasus, and Western Balkans
Swedish, English, French
Fredrik Wesslau used to be Director of the Wider Europe Programme and Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR until 2018.
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Nicola Clase, Swedish Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Fredrik Wesslau, Director of ECFR’s Wider Europe programme, and Vessela Tcherneva,…
The lack of progress on the Minsk agreement means not only that the condition of fully implementing the agreement remains unfulfilled – it has also effectively killed the idea of a partial easing of sanctions
The risk for miscalculation leading to all-out war is real and cannot be ignored
Conférence du jeudi 7 avril sur les relations entre l'Union européenne et la Russie. Avec: – Sylvie Kauffmann, directrice éditoriale Le Monde –…
EU’s weakness is prompting a new scramble for power for the Balkans with Russia, Turkey and other actors
Europe will need to be in for the long-haul on non-recognition of Russia's annexation
Despite its confidence in negotiations with the EU, Turkey remains beset on all sides by problems
In 2015, of the main migratory routes to Europe by both land and sea, the one through the Western Balkans has been the busiest
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to diplomat Robert Cooper and ECFR policy fellows Susi Dennison, Almut Moeller, Kadri Liik, and Fredrik Wesslau, about ECFR's…
Fredrik Wesslau, Director of ECFR's Wider Europe programme, explains why the EU received a B- for its policies on the Wider Europe region
Renewed Minsk-Moscow cooperation in the ‘Zapad’ war games should not see the door to Belarus closed
There is no room for complacency in Europe’s stance towards Russia and Ukraine
The future of Europe’s relations with Russia looks bleak as the Kremlin pursues an increasingly aggressive foreign policy
EU’s weakness is prompting a new scramble for power for the Balkans with Russia, Turkey and other actors
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
A special tribunal for the crime of aggression could help secure justice for Ukrainians harmed by Russia’s invasion. Such a court would have three major implications
Madrid is inadvertently equating Catalonia and Kosovo and, by doing so, revealing itself to be unable to distinguish between legitimate aspirations for self-rule and destabilizing separatism
Suspending Turkey’s EU accession process would be a strategic mistake of historic proportions
The West should engage with Russia's peacekeeping proposal – but skeptically and with clear conditions
The ongoing crisis in Macedonia could become destabilizing for the region unless the EU takes more decisive action
The new axis between Trump’s America, Putin’s Russia, and European populists represents a toxic mix for the liberal order in Europe.
The upsurge of populism in Europe has provided Russia with an ample supply of sympathetic political parties across the continent
Given Russia’s multiple moves to up the ante in recent weeks, Stockholm sees no reason for the EU to change direction
Sweden has much to lose from a hard divorce
Sanctions are clearly not an end in themselves. They are a tool and as such should be responsive to ensure maximum leverage. But this flexibility should not come at the cost of credibility
What role does Russia play in the breakaway regions of Eastern Europe?
Locked in a shadowy life between war and peace, “grey zones” now litter the map of Eastern Europe
Podcast du Black Coffee Morning “Moscou et les extrême-droites européennes, une quête mutuelle de légitimité” du 14/11/2017 avec Anton Shekhovstov, auteur du récemment…
Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's office in Sofia, Vessela Tcherneva and the director of ECFR's Wider Europe programme, Fredrik Wesslau about the…
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Donald Trump's presidency will be the end of global politics as we know it. Fredrik Wesslau, Director of ECFR's Wider Europe Programme and senior policy…
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with experts Andrew Wilson, Fredrik Wesslau and Gustav Gressel, about rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine in the Donbass, the Minsk agreement,…
How will Russia and Europe’s eastern neighbours look 14 years from now? What key trends will play out in Russia and Eastern Europe? What sort…
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Nicola Clase, Swedish Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Fredrik Wesslau, Director of ECFR’s Wider Europe programme, and Vessela Tcherneva,…
Conférence du jeudi 7 avril sur les relations entre l'Union européenne et la Russie. Avec: – Sylvie Kauffmann, directrice éditoriale Le Monde –…
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to diplomat Robert Cooper and ECFR policy fellows Susi Dennison, Almut Moeller, Kadri Liik, and Fredrik Wesslau, about ECFR's…
Fredrik Wesslau, Director of ECFR's Wider Europe programme, explains why the EU received a B- for its policies on the Wider Europe region
The idea is to deploy ground and air assets from NATO allies, so, for instance, Patriot systems, or F-16 [fighter jets] to Poland, Slovakia, and Romania on their side of the border with Ukraine
Fredrik Wesslau on NATO members supporting Ukraine in air defense
Fredrik Wesslau on NATO´s air defense
Frederik Wesslau interviewed on Kosovo's 10 year anniversary
Frederik Wesslau writes about Spain's non-recognition of Kosovo's independence in relation to the Catalan separatism case
Fredrik Wesslau and Andrew Wilson's ECFR report on the Russian Zapad military exercise is quoted