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European Strategic Autonomy and the Biden Presidency

Date de publication
08 February 2021
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Some twenty international personalities from different horizons and backgrounds were asked to reflect on the impact of the Biden presidency for the future of European strategic autonomy.

Europe in the World: for a Modest and Effective Reform

Date de publication
16 December 2020
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This sad year ends with a pandemic that continues in full swing over a large part of the planet, especially in the United States and Europe, with no other reassuring prospect than that of one or more vaccines, which is already a lot. But that’s not the subject I want to focus on in this eighth letter, the last one for 2020. Internationally, two other facts have dominated the scene in recent months.

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Space as a Key Element of Europe's Digital Sovereignty

Date de publication
15 December 2020
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At the end of year 2020, the European space sector finds itself at a crossroads between challenges and opportunities. While the 2019 European Space Agency (ESA) Ministerial Conference marked a progression in terms of budgets, a sign of renewed space ambitions, the technological and financial acceleration from the United States represents a disruptive scenario that poses threats to the continuity of European space capabilities. 

Jean-Pierre DARNIS
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COVID-19 Reveals Europe’s Strategic Loneliness

Date de publication
24 November 2020
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The COVID-19 crisis has not only revealed a world that has moved into an age of interdependence and competition, it has also laid bare Europe’s strategic loneliness and vulnerability.

Trade, Investments, Technology, Climate Change, Human Rights: How should the EU Deal with China?

28 October 2020
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Ifri, the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe and Konrad Adenauer Foundation Multilateral Dialogue organized a videoconference called "Trade, Investments, Technology, Climate Change, Human Rights: How should the EU Deal with China? " on October 27, 2020.

 

 

The Karlsruhe Court Judgment: A Thunderclap from a Clear Sky?

Date de publication
20 October 2020
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In its judgment of 5 May 2020, the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe questioned the conditions under which the European Central Bank (ECB) had adopted a Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP), thus contradicting the position taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the same case.

David CAPITANT
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Technology Strategies in China and the United States, and the Challenges for European Companies

Date de publication
15 October 2020
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As international relations are increasingly reorganized around the US-China rivalry, the tensions between these two great powers are shaping a growing number of sectors, and the exchange of sensitive technologies in particular. This is a critical issue for European companies today. 

Laurence NARDON Sofia BOURNOU Jean-François BUREAU Pierre GIRARD André LOESEKRUG-PIETRI Éric-André MARTIN John SEAMAN Mathilde VELLIET Marion WELLES
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The Renovation Wave: A Make or Break for the European Green Deal

Date de publication
12 October 2020
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European buildings are old and too often inefficient, past policies have not delivered and the amount of investment into energy efficiency must be scaled up dramatically to meet the 2030 targets and ultimately, the carbon neutrality objective.

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Cyprus, to be remade, must resolve some issues

01 October 2020
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Cyprus is set to be ‘remade’ in the coming years through €1 billion in grants from the European Recovery Plan, as we’ve reported here, but there are a few issues to be resolved along the way, according to EU policy experts and economists.

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COVID-19: Down with Globalization, Long Live Europe?

Date de publication
07 September 2020
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Beyond national healthcare systems, COVID-19 questions major global balances, as well as the modes of cooperation underpinning them.

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