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Director Steven Everts on upcoming NATO summit

Will NATO’s deterrence and the transatlantic partnership stand firm? " To be honest, there are real doubts" explains Director Steven Everts, speaking with...

23 June 2025 Steven Everts

NATO billions should go to domestic companies, but the raw materials come from China

As NATO countries prepare to increase defence spending, a major obstacle emerges: the West's dependence on Chinese raw materials. In an interview with Dutch...

23 June 2025 Joris Teer

Giuseppe Spatafora in the Financial Times

Giuseppe's Spatafora's Brief " Fit for purpose? Reforming NATO in the age of Trump 2.0" was quoted in a Financial Times long read examining the consequences of...

23 June 2025 Giuseppe Spatafora

Participants to seminar sitting around a table © EUISS

Fostering enlargement through cooperation in South East Europe

On 20 June, the European Union Institute for Security Studies hosted a seminar convened by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) on fostering enlargement through cooperation in South East Europe. The seminar offered a vital platform for open exchange and regional...

Events

Jun 20 2025

Caspar Hobhouse on Syria: "You need a functioning energy grid to have any sort of economic recovery"

In an interview with The New Arab, Caspar Hobhouse argued that Syria has an opportunity to develop a new energy model that can help the country navigate the...

09 June 2025 Caspar Hobhouse

Joris Teer in El País

"The most urgent question is how we can achieve secure access to [critical raw] materials as quickly as possible, to ensure that China doesn't hold us back in...

20 June 2025 Joris Teer

EU enlargement and integration: Voices of support and scepticism

Persistent scepticism in some EU Member States highlights that the main challenges to enlargement now lie within the Union itself. EU leaders could generate broader public and political support for enlargement by presenting it as a shared security imperative.

Briefs

19 June, 2025 By: Bojana Zorić

Picture of Anna Wieslander, Magnus Hjort, Janis Sarts, Giuseppe Spatafora, Nad'a Kovalcikova & Ondrej Ditrych at the EUISS side session at GLOBSEC Forum 2025 | © GLOBSEC

EUISS side session at 2025 GLOBSEC Forum

On 13 June, we organised a side session at the 2025 GLOBSEC Forum to offer an exchange of expert views on the evolving hybrid threats Russia poses to Europe and potential measures for the EU and NATO to disable Moscow's destabilising actions. The session, led by Ondrej Ditrych...

Events

Jun 16 2025

Lizza Bomassi on Europe's pivot to Southeast Asia

While Europe might not be able to replace the US or China in emerging Asia, it can nevertheless offer transparent, reliable partnerships that aren’t about zero...

16 June 2025 Lizza Bomassi

"Beijing's stranglehold on raw materials is one of the strongest weapons in the trade and supply chain war."

In an interview with Dutch media outlet NRC, Joris Teer highlighted how China's dominance over critical raw materials has become one of its most potent economic...

13 June 2025 Joris Teer

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