Last month, on a highly anticipated visit to Brazil, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed harsh criticism of the EU-MERCOSUR trade deal. He told a group of businesspeople in São Paulo: “it...
China continues to add new members to its International Lunar Research Station initiative, but many of these are subnational, suggesting issues attracting partners.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Ifri launches its Geopolitics of Technology program which takes a resolutely European approach to international issues related to so-called...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...