2025: A Year Of Challenges
All the commentaries published at the turn of the year had at least one thing in common: at the dawn of 2025, the European Union has rarely been faced with […]
Internal EU policies
Publications
Semiconductors and Statecraft: Belgium’s Role in Europe’s Technological Sovereignty
Abstract Belgium’s global role in semiconductors hinges not on scale but on control of a strategic chokepoint: upstream innovation. With imec at its centre, Belgium functions as Europe’s semiconductor R&D […]
From Integration to Inclusion: Empowering Immigrant Women in the EU
This policy brief examines the socioeconomic integration of immigrant women with a particular focus on their occupational integration and the labor market opportunities available to them. It explores the challenges […]
Commentaries
The Ukraine Liberty Bond: Unlocking Frozen Assets Without Breaking the Rules
The EU has been debating how best to use the roughly €200-240 billion of Russian assets that are in EU jurisdictions, mainly Belgium and Luxembourg, to fund Ukraine-related expenditure. In […]
Belgium’s Take on EU Big Bang Enlargement: More Europeans means More Europe
The year 2024 is to be marked as a historic year for the enlargement of the EU. Following the Russian war of aggression towards Ukraine, the question of the enlargement […]
From Report to Reality: Moving Beyond Draghi’s Vision
On 6 December 2024, the Egmont Institute and the FPS Foreign Affairs organized a conference “From Report to Reality: Moving Beyond Draghi’s Vision”. Through a series of keynote speeches and […]