ECFR Alumni · Deputy Director, European Power programme
Areas of expertise
European security and defence policy, Swedish foreign and domestic politics, conflict resolution/peace building, Russia, the Eastern Partnership countries
Languages
Swedish, English, French, conversational Russian.
Biography
Jenny Söderström was the deputy director of ECFR’s European Power Programme. Before, she was serving as programme coordinator at ECFR.
Prior to joining ECFR in 2020, Söderström worked at the Permanent Representation of Sweden to the EU as an expert on the EU’s common security and defence policy. She has previous work experience from the Swedish Ministry of Defence, the Swedish Armed Forces and from NGO-work in Georgia.
Söderström holds a Master’s Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University, Sweden.
Russia’s war on Ukraine has featured many of the technological advances the world has made over the past decades. If Europeans are serious about their defence capabilities, they need to learn from this use of emerging technology on both sides of the war
Member states are not divided into two diametrically opposed camps.
This makes the implementation of the European Green Deal an intricate puzzle – yet achievable
The Swedish government has more room than it thinks to champion the EU recovery fund – and thereby nurture pro-Europeanism, rather than Euroscepticism, among Swedish voters
A new survey shows that, after the onset of the covid-19 crisis, there has been a rise in public support for unified EU action to tackle global threats
In the media
Sweden could gain an influential partner that can help protect Swedish interests in the EU and globally
Why Swedes should care more about the results of the German election, explains Jenny Södertröm in her op-ed
As emerges from the report just published by the European Council of Foreign Relations, the various European countries have different views on how to achieve carbon neutrality
The Italian journal Formiche refers to the ECFR report mapping the opportunities and challenges of the EU Green Deal for the Member States
A survey conducted by the ECFR shows that EU member states are publicly committed to the European Green Deal but are divided over the details of its implementation