Brexit, Strategy, and the EU: Britain takes leave
The 100th Egmont Paper deals with an issue that, unfortunately, provides little cause for celebration: the impact of Brexit on European diplomacy and defence. Unless, as Sven Biscop argues, a […]
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Publications
Towards a Belgian position on Brexit: Actively reconciling national and European interests
The prospect of seeing the United Kingdom (UK) leave the European Union (EU) presents Belgium with its most significant foreign policy challenge in decades. Caught between its traditional support for […]
Anticipating the post-Daesh landscape
Daesh with its proto-state and its shining aura of invincibility and unstoppable expansion, attracting myriads of foreign volunteers to the Levant, is rapidly coming to an end. What happens next […]
Angola’s Africa policy
Angola is experiencing an existential transition that will change the way power in the country is reconfigured and projected. The pragmatism and survivalist instinct that have defined its internal and […]
The reform of the EU Courts (IV)
The European Court of Justice has regularly been accused of activism. Recently, this debate has become more acute thanks to various evolutions (Brexit being only one of them). The charge […]
The blurring of Belgium’s security: deliberate or unintended?
Since January 2015, the Belgian public has grown accustomed to the presence of soldiers in the streets, following terrorist threats and attacks. Their misson has been prolonged each month by […]