The launch of negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement between the EU and the UAE in April 2025 marks a shift in the EU's approach to engagement with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and its member states. After over three decades of stalled bloc-to-bloc talks, and in a climate...
Joris Teer and Giuseppe Spatafora's Brief " When stars align: Leveraging European defence budgets to drive a dual-use tech boom" was quoted in Bloomberg, in an...
A closed-door roundtable bringing together independent experts and EU policymakers for a collective discussion on how to start implementing the security dimension of the EU’s new strategic approach to the Black Sea region.
On 4 July, we organised a round table titled "Shifting Sands in the Sahel: EU's Strategic Options for a Renewed Approach" at our Paris office. We were especially honoured to welcome H.E. João Gomes Cravinho, the EU Special Representative for the Sahel, who shared his insights on...
In the wake of the US suspending the supply of ammunition to Ukraine due to its own stocks running low, Joris Teer joined Dutch MP Derk Boswijk's podcast,...
Caspar Hobhouse's Brief ' The lifeblood of the military: The energy transition and operational capacity' was analysed in Numerama and Visegrád Post's articles...
Europe's meek response to the US's direct intervention in the Israel-Iran conflict is rational, but revealing. "In foreign policy a useful principle is: that...
Our Director Steven Everts was quoted in a Financial Times article on the rapid fading of peaceful norms. "Normlessness is the historical norm in international...
Joris Teer was interviewed by Dutch media Nieuwsuur about China's restriction of raw material supplies to Europe's critical sectors, particularly the defence...
