Demographic Jigsaw: Puzzling Out a Resilient EU
In December 2019, for the first time, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen assigned a portfolio containing demography as a policy area to Vice-President Dubravka Suica. […]
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Looking towards the North: Belgium’s Role in the Arctic
The Arctic region has re-emerged as an area of geostrategic importance and is attracting increasing attention from Belgium. Accelerating climate change has altered living conditions in the region. The prospect […]
Charting a Green and Competitive Future for Europe
The Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, with support of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in collaboration with the Representation of the European Commission in Belgium, has organised […]
Is Governing Migration a Utopia?
Climate change-related displacements is attracting increasing attention. They are gradually making their way onto the agenda of the bodies in charge of this global challenge. In addition, the response to […]
Broke or broken? A necessary discussion about the humanitarian funding gap – Chapter 2
Chapter 2: rewriting the humanitarian narrative The humanitarian funding gap is a direct threat to our collective ability to meet the basic needs of communities affected by conflicts and disasters. […]
Broke or broken? A necessary discussion about the humanitarian funding gap
Chapter 1: the financing base This Egmont Brief proposes to further explore the main options currently proposed to fill the humanitarian aid funding gap: budgetary targets, global pooled funds, and […]