Returnees in the Maghreb. A European perspective
More than 10,000 individuals travelled from Europe and North Africa to fight in Syria and Iraq. Now, Europe and North Africa are dealing with the challenge of returning foreign fighters, […]
EU strategy and foreign policy
Publications
The 2019 UK General Election: towards a Brexit catharsis?
On 12 December 2019, UK voters confront another choice whether to advance Brexit or not. More than three years after the referendum, all issues have been scrutinized and the collective […]
Putting the Core at the Centre. The Crisis Response Operation Core (CROC) and the Future of PESCO
The reader who cannot readily identify the meaning of CROC (Croque Monsieur? Croque Madame?) in the context of European defence can be forgiven. The flurry of activity in the EU’s […]
External publications
EU-U.S. Consensus and NATO-EU Cooperation
Whether or not NATO will continue to exist into the next decades depends on whether the United States and the EU continue to share a broad outlook on the world. […]
Europe and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: growing concerns, more strategy
Geopolitical shifts are engendering a transformation of the globalized economic order that has flourished in the post-Cold War period. This trend runs deep and raises structural challenges, – such as […]
The EU-Mercosur agreement: towards integrated climate policy?
The recently signed EU-Mercosur agreement has met with criticism from civil society, farmers and politicians around the EU. These criticisms have been amplified by recent forest fires in the Amazon. […]