Practical information
Ifri Brussels is organising a restricted event entitled “The EU and migration: The challenges of demographic change”. We will have the pleasure to host Prof. Jack Goldstone from George Mason University who will present his new book Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics, and Philippe Legrain, Head of the Analysis Team at the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) and author of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them (Princeton University Press, 2007).
This event is held with the kind support of the U.S. Mission to the EU.
Other events
Nuclear Sharing in Europe: A Contested Policy That Endures
Since the end of the Cold War, the number of US nuclear weapons stationed in Europe has fallen more than seventy-fold, yet their presence in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey remains a quiet pillar of NATO's deterrence posture. This "nuclear sharing" arrangement, central to the Alliance since its founding, has long been contested by public opinion, political parties, and civil society across Europe, without ever being abandoned by host governments. This paradox lies at the heart of the seminar: why does such an unpopular policy persist?