The core idea of the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy is that lasting peace and stability can only exist where governments guarantee their citizens security, prosperity, freedom, and equality. Where […]
The EU has not been perceived as reacting very rapidly or effectively to the socalled Arab Spring. Events do validate the underpinning idea of the European Security Strategy and the […]
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Can Europeans have global impact in a multipolar age?’. This snapshot examines the rise of ‘strategic partnerships’, the ‘Grand Area’ and the connexion between the two. It argues that through […]
The Coalition Agreement of the Di Rupo government comes at a moment when the international context can help overcome the dilemmas of Belgian defence policy: transformation
In this policy brief, Alain Hanssen looks at Afghanistan’s future through different national and international lenses. (Photo credit: EU EEAS, Flickr)