The pandemic challenge: How Italy can make a comeback
We must seize the opportunities created by the EU’s mobilisation of an extraordinary amount of resources as a fiscal stimulus for the recovery
Covid-19
25 Nov
Bubble trouble: Estonia and the coronavirus crisis
With the advent of the second wave, the medical situation in all three Baltic countries is changing quickly and, therefore, demands some flexibility from them to adequately handle the crisis
Tracking European solidarity during covid-19: Lessons from the first wave
Myths around Europe’s and China’s respective actions early on in the coronavirus crisis are now dispelled – and ECFR’s European Solidarity Tracker tells the story of how
Latvia during covid: How success bred complacency
Easing restrictions too quickly in the summer saw Latvia squander its early success and the fruits of its cooperation with Estonia and Lithuania
Trump can’t tell the difference between dictatorship and democracy: An interview with Anne Applebaum and José Ignacio Torreblanca
ECFR’s José Ignacio Torreblanca in conversation with Applebaum about her latest book, The Twilight of Democracy
Lithuania’s pandemic: The power of regional cooperation
Russia and the eastern neighbourhood are Lithuania’s top foreign policy priorities, even in a global pandemic
8 Oct
High-level virtual roundtable on covid-19-related debt in Africa
The economic knock-on effects of the COVID19 pandemic are severe all over the world but Africa is particularly exposed. As governments’ ability to respond to the…
Three dangers Trump’s covid poses for the world
What Trump gets up to stuck in quarantine could disrupt the US and the world in frightening ways
Europe’s double bind
The covid-19 pandemic has exposed a gap between European aspirations and actions. If European leaders are serious about defending rules-based multilateralism and securing the European Union’s interests in the twenty-first century, they will need to start coming to terms with today’s geopolitical realities.