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.
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France-Germany, The Engine Under Pressure
Annual Conference of The Study Committe on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa) ─ Faced with a profoundly disrupted strategic and economic environment, Franco-German cooperation is more than ever the central pillar of Europe's future. The war in Ukraine, energy and technological dependence, and uncertainty about the strength of the transatlantic ties require urgent deepening of European sovereignty, both in terms of defence and economic and industrial competitiveness.
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