Catholic University of Portugal
ECFR associate researcher for Portugal
Jun 2010 — presentLívia Franco is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal (IEP-Católica) and Associate Researcher at the pan-European think-tank ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations).
Her areas of interest include Contemporary International Politics, Transatlantic Relations, Portuguese Foreign Policy and European Politics. She has authored, edited and translated various articles and books in these areas. Her most recent publications are Uma Família Monárquica na Guerra da República (Ed. D. Quixote, June 2023), A Ucrânia e a Europa, dois anos depois (e-article FFMS, February 2024), É possível reformar a ONU? (Revista Brotéria, March 2024). She earned her PhD in Political Science at the Catholic University of Portugal and her MA in International Relations from Leuven University. She was Fulbright PhD student at Boston College and Visiting Scholar at Brown University. During the Fall Semester 2021, she was FLAD Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, where she taught a course on Democracy in Europe: History, Politics and Public Opinion.
Lívia Franco is a resident commentator at the Portuguese TV news channel SIC Notícias and regularly serves as commentator on European and International Affairs in other media outlets.
Concluding that Russia poses a threat and that the EU let its dependencies grow too deep, the bloc so far attempted to decouple from Moscow. How should Europeans navigate the adversarial relationship in the future?
Faced with a growing Sino-American rivalry and a world in which US power may be diminishing, Portugal will have to decide how to maintain its traditional Atlanticism while increasingly focusing on Europe
The Portuguese EU presidency should handle issues in line with European voters’ perceptions of the new reality created by the coronavirus
The Portuguese hope that the EU can help them tackle the challenges of globalisation: from climate change to cooperation on the impact of freedom of movement
Portugal is one of the UK’s oldest allies, but changing domestic politics and contrasting views on the European project make unqualified reform support unlikely
The latest report by Susi Dennison and Livia Franco on how Lisbon can guide the EU into the post-covid era is quoted by the portuguese outlet RTP
The report by Susi Dennison and Livia Franco is quoted by the portuguese newspaper Publico
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