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Giovanni Faleg

Giovanni Faleg was a senior analyst at the Institute from 2018 to 2023. He was responsible for the sub-Saharan Africa portfolio and was project co-director of the multi-million, EU-funded initiative 'Countering Foreign Interference. A project to strengthen EU CSDP capacities against foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI)'. He also covered EU civilian crisis management, the integrated approach to conflicts and crises, conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

Before joining the EUISS, he worked at the World Bank (2014-2018) in the fragility, conflict and violence unit; at the Centre for European Policy Studies (2011-2018) and the Istituto Affari Internazionali (2013), focusing on the EU’s foreign and security policy.

Giovanni holds a PhD in European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2014), with a thesis on the evolution of security cooperation in the EU through institutional learning. He is the author of The EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy: Learning Communities in International Organizations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and More Union in European Defence (CEPS, 2015).

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    20June 2023
    Countering Foreign Interference Dialogues 2023

    On 20-21 June, the EUISS together with the European University Institute (EUI) held the first edition of the Countering Foreign Interference (CFI) Dialogues, one of the flagship events of the CFI project. 

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    01June 2023
    CFI project trains Western Balkans’ diplomats

    On 30 May 2023, the Countering Foreign Interference project delivered its first training to a group of junior diplomats from the Western Balkans.

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    05May 2023
    Countering Foreign Interference project at the 2023 State of the Union conference

    The CFI project organised a partners’ panel at the State of the Union conference hosted by the European University Institute in Florence. The event represented an opportunity to discuss how foreign information manipulation and interference impacts the European Union and its Member States. 

  • 03May 2023
    Celebrating twenty EUISS-COAFR meetings

    Since 2019, regular meetings between the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and the Africa Working Party of the Council of the EU (COAFR) have fostered knowledge sharing on Africa-related policy planning and analysis.

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    18April 2023
    New geopolitics of the Horn of Africa

    Tumultuous developments in global, regional and local politics have shaped a new geopolitical context for the Horn of Africa. The 20th EUISS-COAFR session discussed the new geopolitics of the region and its implications for EU engagement.

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    14April 2023
    Giovanni Faleg speaks at seminar on African security and strategies

    On 14 April,Giovanni Faleg delivered a presentation on EU strategies towards Africa at the seminar “African Security: Agency, Strategies, Perspectives”, organised by the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies.

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    28March 2023
    The Countering Foreign Interference project is kicking off

    The Countering Foreign Interference (CFI) project held its kick-off event on 28 March 2023.

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    23March 2023
    Recommendations for the New Civilian CSDP Compact

    EUISS and the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management presented recommendations to Member States for a new Civilian Compact.

  • Participants to the seminar sitting around a table with screens © EUISS
    24January 2023
    Africa-Europe relationship in a fragmented world

    The Institute and the European External Action Service co-organised an expert seminar to exchange perspectives on geopolitical transformations and their implications for Africa-Europe relations.

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    23January 2023
    EUISS launches EU-funded project on countering foreign interference

    The Institute is launching the Countering Foreign Interference project, a multi-million EU-funded project focused on developing EU methodologies and tools to detect, analyse, assess, and based on that prevent, deter and counter threats emerging in the information space.

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Europe’s Pivot to Africa: National Strategies and the Challenge of Coherence
In Giovanni Carbone (ed.) 'Europe and Africa. The Long Search for Common Ground', Italian Institute for International Political Studies, 15 November 2021

Il futuro dell’Africa: libero scambio, pace e prosperità? (available in Italian and French)
Il Grand Continent, 12 March 2021

Global Power Competition in Africa: Implications for the EU
Italian Institute for International Political Studies, 21 December 2020

Implications of COVID-19 on EU Crisis Management
National Defense Institute, 13 May 2020

Rethinking stabilisation efforts in Somalia
SIPRI blog, 9 May 2019

Les relations UE-Afrique: un tournant stratégique
In Défense Magazine, UNION-IHEDN, n. 196, January-February 2019

The EU: from comprehensive to integrated approach
In Global Affairs, Volume 4, Issue 2-3, 27 July 2018

Reaching the root causes of fragility? An assessment of foreign interventions in the G5 Sahel
In Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck (ed.) The Sahel: Europe’s African Borders, Euromesco, April 2018

Report on EU's comprehensive approach to conflict prevention and peacebuilding
EU-CIVCAP Project, Deliverable 4.3, 23 March 2018[collapse]