The Strategic Compass: Entering the Fray
The Strategic Compass for the EU’s security and defence policy, to be adopted in 2022, must generate immediate action. The best way of ensuring that is to prepare new capability […]
EU strategy and foreign policy
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Introductory speeches at the colloquium on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights
These are two of the introductory speeches at the colloquium Human Rights in Pandemic Times Political Exceptionalism, Social Vulnerability & Restricted Freedoms held this week at the Egmont Institute in […]
How to reverse in a one-way street
The present publication is the result of a restricted webinar, organized by the EGMONT Institute and the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The event took place […]
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EU strategy: Resolutely moderate
As competition and rivalry between the great powers increase, the overriding challenge for international politics in the first half of the 21st century is to maintain “one world”: one international […]
Commentaries
Afghan refugees: Europe should develop an ambitious and collaborative structure
The TV news and press coverage of the mayhem in Kabul and around its airport mask the greater scrum by tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Afghanis heading towards the […]
Commentaries
Afghanistan: The End of a Strategic Distraction
The military intervention in Afghanistan was a near complete success. Or it would have been, had the US pulled out as soon as it was satisfied that its initial objective […]
Events
A Strategic Compass for Military Intervention
The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) was created to enable the European Union to conduct autonomous military operations outside Europe. Military intervention – the strategy guiding it, the level […]
The future of European Defence and the priorities of the Slovenian Presidency: EU – NATO partnerships, Western Balkans and Energy Efficiency in the Defence sector
Watch the recording of the webinar on Youtube Speaker: Matej Tonin, Minister of Defence, Slovenia (see CV) Chair: Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop, Egmont Institute & Ghent University This […]
Risks and Opportunities in a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific”
Watch the recording of the webinar on Youtube The Indo-Pacific holds half of the world’s population and is the engine of global economic growth. One-third of the world’s trade […]
Robust, Ready and Resilient? The NATO Brussels Summit in Retrospect
Over the past years, NATO has adapted its deterrence and defence posture in response to a changing security environment. Successive NATO Summit declarations have illustrated the extent to which […]