Summits and Sanctions, War and Peace: Is the EU Still in the Game?
As I set out for Beijing in early July, to teach my annual summer course on grand strategy and great powers, I knew in advance what all my Chinese interlocutors […]
Publications
Migration: Give the Pact a Chance
The European Asylum Agency’s organization of the first State of Asylum Conference in Malta on 18 June and the Commission’s publication on 11 June of the ‘State of play on […]
The European Ocean Pact: Laying the Groundwork for an “Ocean Union”?
The European Ocean Pact, adopted by the European Commission in June 2025 and presented at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, is the most comprehensive EU initiative on ocean […]
BRICS+: an Odd Family of (un)Likely Frenemies
On June 13, 2025, the government of Brazil, in its capacity as pro tempore BRICS(+) Chair, announced the formal admission of Vietnam as a partner country of the group. With […]
DRC-Rwanda: Why the 27 June Agreement is not Enough and How CENCO-ECC might Improve the Odds of Peace
On 27 June, a Peace Agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Rwanda was undersigned in Washington, witnessed by the US government. The agreement is based […]
Towards a Preparedness Union Strategy? Show us the money!
The 2024-2029 Strategic Agenda which the European Council adopted at its meeting of 27 June 2024 harks back to a wish outlined in the conclusions of a number of previous […]