Thursday 28 March 2024
Marc JULIENNE, quoted by Andrew Jones in Space News
China continues to add new members to its International Lunar Research Station initiative, but many of these are subnational, suggesting issues attracting partners.
Sunday 24 March 2024
Jeanette SÜẞ, quoted by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in The Telegraph
Breakdown of continental partnership is a threat to Europe – and could be catastrophic for Ukraine. It was meant to be a patching up of the notoriously fraught Macron-Scholz relationship, a “reset...
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Jérémy BACHELIER, quoted by Keith Johnson in Foreign Policy
There is a war on at home, but Europe’s strategic and naval aspirations are on the far side of the world. After years in search of a geopolitical identity, Europe is aiming to become a much bigger...
Friday 15 March 2024
Marie KRPATA , quoted by Nick Alipour and Théo Bourgery-Gonse in Euractiv
As the vital relationship between Franco-German leaders Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron appears “broken”, hopes for a sustainable fix rest on the Weimar Triangle and even the return of an old...
Thursday 14 March 2024
Éric-André MARTIN, quoted by Guy Chazan in Berlin and Leila Abboud in Paris in Financial Times
Allies fret that Franco-German animosity is undermining western unity over Ukraine. Emmanuel Macron will arrive in Berlin on Friday for talks designed to repair a fractured Franco-German...
Monday 26 February 2024
Céline PAJON, quoted by Maria Siow in SCMP
Japan has supported the region by setting up hospitals, building roads and bridges, and assisting in climate change mitigation and disaster relief. Tokyo’s renewed focus on Pacific...
Monday 03 April 2023
Despite some shouting and hiccups here and there, the European Green Deal has become the common framework for any discussion on energy and climate in Europe.
Tuesday 29 March 2022
The 2022 French presidential election is of particular importance: given the outbreak of war in Ukraine and the exacerbation of international tensions, the next five years will be decisive for...
Monday 09 November 2020
Ifri launches its Geopolitics of Technology program which takes a resolutely European approach to international issues related to so-called...
Sunday 22 March 2020
We were deeply saddened to learn that our friend and colleague, Professor Aileen S.P. Baviera from the University of the Philippines, passed away on March 21, 2020 due to complications resulting...
Tuesday 04 February 2020
Launched in 2008, the University of Pennsylvania’s Global Go-To Think Tanks Index Report 2019 has just been released. Ranked in the top three most influential think tanks in the...
Thursday 31 January 2019
For the second consecutive year IFRI is ranked 2nd most influential institute in the world according to the 13th edition of the ...
Following the 18 May Franco-German initiative and ahead of next week's critical presentation (27 May) by the European Commission of the European recovery plan aligned with the carbon neutrality...
COVID-19 works as a catalyst for international relations. It accelerates and amplifies previously latent geopolitical trends.
Here is a series of Ifri...
Tuesday 05 May 2020
Economic recovery measures taken by several governments in the world so far are not aligned with the Paris Agreement. Yet some governments took important steps in the right direction but they are...
Wednesday 11 March 2020
The global economy is shaken by the consequences of the Covid-19 outbreak in major global economies which increasingly impacts demand, supply chains and trade.
The Think Thank 7 (T7) is an engagement group that brings together the leading Think Tanks from the G7 countries in order to analyze and make recommendations on key issues of the G7 presidency....
Friday 15 December 2017
The 16th edition of Ifri's annual conference on the United States, organized by Ifri's North America Program on December 7th, 2017, reviewed the key...