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Remember the revolution: an agenda for EU foreign policy
Sven Biscop argues that the EU’s foreign policy goals are nothing short of revolutionary but that they can only be achieved through pragmatic idealism.
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The Age of Cameron: The end of British pragmatism in Europe
Since 2010, Cameron has accumulated tactical and strategic mistakes in the EU field. He picks now quite systematically fights that cannot be justified in his EU partners’ eyes. The UK […]
Development and the India-EU Strategic Partnership: Missing incentives and divergent identities
Although development has featured in the EU-India strategic partnership dialogue, India has little incentive or interest to collaborate with the EU in this area. India’s approach to development and its […]
The EU and its partners on development: how strategic on the ground?
Most of the EU’s strategic partnerships include dialogues on development, and in some cases commitments to collaboration. This policy brief examines whether such dialogue and commitments are reflected in EU-strategic […]
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The European Union confronted with the end of the end of history
The end of history is over. The full weight of history bears now on all EU external borders from Finland to Gibraltar. There are crises everywhere. Moreover, they engender a […]
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Mogherini in the European Parliament: a strategic moment
In this article, Sven Biscop looks at some of the key questions that should be asked of Federica Mogherini at her hearing at the European Parliament on 6 October.