The trick is to make these things beneficial for the country’s national affairs. They can either be in control of their energy revolution or watch other countries steal the march on them.
Mark Leonard explains that going green can be spun not just to citizens, but governments, as serving their own national interest
Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro use the concept of “asymmetric dependence” to describe Europe’s condition of vulnerability in value chains and control of natural resources to the benefit of other actors such as China, Russia and the US
The Austrian newspaper refers to ECFR survey results on Europe’s invisible divides after covid
Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard describe in their op-ed Europe’s invisible divides
Mark Leonard’s book “The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity causes Conflict” is reviewed by The New Stateman
Germany is ‘vastly more important than the other countries on all the big issues, from how to handle China to the tech wars and climate change’
Mark Leonard notes that whoever is the chancellor, Germany is still responsible for more than half of Chinese trade with Europe.
ZEIT Online refers to ECFR’s latest polling on how free or unfree European citizens feel
The European public thinks there is a new cold war – but they don’t want to have anything to do with it. Our polling reveals that a “cold war” framing risks alienating European voters.
Mark Leonard quoted on ECFR’s new poll suggesting that France and Europe’s discontent over the new US, UK and Australian alliance against China “runs against the grain of opinion in Europe”
EU Observer presents newly published ECFR polling study
A majority of Europeans believe a new “cold war” is happening between the United States and China and Russia, according to a new report by the European Council on Foreign Relations
New ECFR polling survey quoted by Politico