Brief/ Ukraine’s NATO Membership Will Strengthen Europe’s Security by Riccardo Alcaro
Although NATO Summit in Vilnius has not set the conditions for Ukraine to join the Alliance, it has made clear that Ukraine will one day become a member. In this JOINT Brief, Riccardo Alcaro (Project Coordinator, Istituto Affari Internazionali – IAI) argues that, for years to come, European security will have to be built in defence from […]
Ukraine’s NATO Membership Will Strengthen Europe’s Security
NATO’s refusal to set a clear pathway for Ukraine’s membership largely dominated the expert and public debate over the Alliance’s summit in Vilnius last week.[1] It also overshadowed its significant, even historic, results.[2] After all, in Vilnius, NATO all but acquired a new member (barring surprises from Turkey’s parliament): not (yet) Ukraine but Sweden. Coming […]
Paper/ JOINT Effectiveness Checklist for EU Foreign and Security Policy in Conflict and Crisis Situations by Kristina Kausch and Oliver Gnad
JOINT Effectiveness Checklist for EU Foreign and Security Policy in Conflict and Crisis Situations has been published on our website Kristina Kausch (Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund’s Brussels office – GMF) and Oliver Gnad (Visiting Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund’s Washington office – GMF). It is the first easy-to-use and adaptive framework comprising both conflicts […]
Podcast/ The EU and Fragmented Territories: How to Deal with Complexities in the EU Neighbourhood and Beyond
This episode of the JOINT podcast explores the obstacles faced by the European Union in achieving a cohesive foreign and security policy. Focusing on case studies from Syria, Libya, and the Horn of Africa (with a focus on Ethiopia and the Tigray War), Jesutimilehin O. Akamo (Research Coordinator at the Africa Peace and Security Programme […]
Public Hybrid Event/ The EU Foreign and Security Policy in the Middle East: Constraints and Opportunities
The European Union and Turkey have been attaching utmost importance to the Middle East and since the Arab uprisings, the policies towards the region climbed up on the agenda of both actors. The security concerns emanating from the region have been shaping and will continue to shape the policies in the foreseeable future. The region […]
A Critical Juncture: EU’s Venezuela Policy Following the War in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine accelerated a global energy crisis just as the world was beginning to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Venezuela has the largest crude oil and the eighth largest gas reserves in the world and can therefore offer an alternative for Europe to replace its fossil fuels imports from Russia. The problem is, […]
Brief/ A Critical Juncture: EU’s Venezuela Policy Following the War in Ukraine by Anna Ayuso, Tiziano Breda, Elsa Lilja Gunnarsdottir and Marianne Riddervold
EU’s goal in Venezuela has been to promote a negotiated democratic transition, but it has been unable to foster it. The change of the US Venezuela policy under Biden, the shift towards the left in most new Latin American governments, and EU’s need to diversify its energy supplies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have provided an opening […]