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The 1st step toward better global governance: a pretty website?

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The website will house our research, policy briefs, blogs & events.

Already, there's a lot of exciting updates...
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📢 Ahead of the 6th ministerial meeting of the EU-US Trade & Technology Council, dive into Camille Ford piece: 'The EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council: How many elephants can the EU and US fit in one room?' 🇪🇺🇺🇸 #TTC
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Today we celebrate NATO's 75th anniversary. A few thoughts to mark the occasion - and a picture of me as the 1997 NATO enlargement poster child used to lobby US Congress to support the entry of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. A brief thread 🧵↩

REUNIR’s project coordinator teamed up with colleagues from the sister project Re-Engage for policy briefings in Stockholm. Horizon Europe🇪🇺

Also featured in the Council Think Tank Review!
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Check out the latest op-ed by Michael Emerson on 'What does #Putin ’s farcical ‘re-election’ mean for the EU? euronews.com/2024/03/25/wha…

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📢 Introducing the JOINT Effectiveness Checklist to assess EU Foreign and Security Policy!

Assess, compare and build a trend of EU responses to crisis and conflict situations💻 Check it out here: jointchecklist.iai.it

📽️ Here's a step-by-step guide: youtu.be/_NM8K4ChZBU

Snapshot from my address at the European Parliament, #Euronest Parliament Assembly on the economic developments in #EasternPartnership . Here I comment on #Ukraine , #ATMs and #SolidarityLanes , & check out EP website for the whole discussion & on all #EaP countries.

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How can the Russia-Ukraine war be managed, contained, or ended? Read the Council of Councils debate among experts from 13 countries on whether it should be through additional support to Ukraine, diplomacy, or rethinking mindsets: on.cfr.org/48ZtxAh

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Building on the #DCFTA , #Ukraine ’s integration into the EU’s economy has significantly advanced since February 2022.

📊 As this study by Dr. Tinatin Akhvlediani and Veronika Movchan in cooperation with ICDS Tallinn outlines, the prospect of Ukraine’s accession to the EU brings…

Happy to have contributed to this timely discussion on how to step up the support for #Ukraine . Thanks to
Poland in the EU and PISM_Brussels PISM for having me.
📺Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=i6SlKX…

Excited to continue bringing work on our CEPS EPC Observatory forward epc-observstory.info CEPS ThinkTank CEPS foreign policy

This is a good digest of the building blocks that need reinforcement to develop a real European Defence Union. My contribution reflects on the rebalancing of the main political institutions: Commissioner for Defence *Cooperation* (DefCo), monthly defence Council, CEDE (not SEDE)

📢 Don’t miss out on our newest publication about #EUenlargement by Michael Emerson!

📌 This CEPS explainer demonstrates why the EU’s enlargement process is a remarkably positive story – if largely unsung and still incomplete.

READ IT HERE: ceps.eu/ceps-publicati…

EU decision-making on the #MiddleEast peace process has been paralyzed for a decade, making it the poster child for broader foreign policy pathologies.

📃New JOINT Brief by Kristina Kausch German Marshall Fund ➡️ jointproject.eu/?p=2011

More in the 🧵 below:

Last week at #CEPSlab2024 I hosted the session on #UkrainesReconstruction with:
📌 Anna Jarosz-Friis, EU Neighbourhood & Enlargement 🇪🇺
📌Jean Pierre Froehly, GermanForeignOffice
📌 Miriam Kosmehl Bertelsmann Stiftung
📌 Solmaz Sharifi, U.S. Mission to the EU
💡💬not only 💰but also finding human resources is a challenge!

With the expected rise of pro-Russian far-right parties around Europe, the window of opportunity to make bold moves on the creation of an EU defence union is slowly closing. Thank you for the wide-ranging conversation Karel Bartak

Is EU trade policy becoming protectionist? Don’t miss my latest for EUobserver

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