Wednesday 24 July 2024
Marc HECKER, interviewed by Kate Varley for RTE, Ireland
The organisers of the Paris Olympics have promised an "unprecedented" security operation in the city ahead of the official start of the games later this week, and indeed the signs are everywhere...
Tuesday 16 July 2024
Céline PAJON, quoted by Shaun Turton, for Nikkei Asian Review
Pacific leaders will gather in Tokyo for the 10th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM10) from Tuesday to Thursday.
Thursday 11 July 2024
Paul WOHRER, quoted by Rudy Ruitenberg for DefenseNews
Europe restored sovereign access to space with the first launch of the Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket on Tuesday, after years of delays and retirement of the previous launcher had left the continent...
Monday 08 July 2024
Héloïse FAYET, quoted by Politico
America has protected Europe with is nuclear umbrella for more than 70 years. In the era of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the continent is quietly debating a different nuclear future.
Monday 08 July 2024
Céline PAJON, cited by Gabriel Dominguez for the Japan Times
France is headed for a hung parliament after none of the political parties that contested Sunday’s parliamentary runoff vote managed to secure an outright majority — a situation that could put the...
Monday 10 June 2024
Dimitri MINIC, quoted by Robyn Dixon in The Washington Post
To be sure government spending reaches the battlefield in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin is suddenly putting high priority on purging Defense Ministry officials accused of corruption. Russia's...
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...