European issues are transversely covered by most of Ifri's centers and programs.
Some programs pay particular attention to these themes: the Study Committee for French-German relations (CERFA), the French-Austrian Center for European Convergence (CFA).
All European themes — institutional, economic, citizenship, security — are subject to specific studies and debates.
Advisor to the Executive Chairman, editor-in-chief of Politique étrangère and co-director of RAMSES
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Special Advisor for European Affairs
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Secretary General of the Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa)
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Research Fellow, Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa)
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Research Fellow, Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa)
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On 22 January 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel sign the Treaty of Aachen on “Franco-German Cooperation and Integration.” The document is set to complement the original Elysée Treaty from 1963, signed by President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad...
In September 2010, China stopped all exports of rare earths and associated products to Japan, depriving Japan’s industry of essential raw materials. This decision highlighted the tensions around the trade of critical materials and China’s monopoly on a group of particular metals. Western...
The issue of the digital transformation of the industry provoked in France as in Germany the return of the state and the introduction of a subsidiary industrial policy. Feeling threatened in its industrial leadership, Germany mobilized its resources through industry 4.0 by building a vision...
What role do political values play in Europe-China relations 70 years after the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
As Brexit fast approaches, what can be said about the key issues? Politique étrangère summarizes them with four questions.
This study analyses the joint efforts by France and Germany to bring about a comprehensive reform of the European currency union. These efforts culminated in the joint Meseberg Declaration adopted in June 2018. The article contextualises these efforts with respect to the reforms realised so...
For decades, Europe has been trying to chart a path away from the military competition and strategic rivalries that brought it to ruins so many times in history.
The instruments of cooperative security created during and since the Cold War to foster mutual confidence and reduce the risks of war, inadvertent escalation, and arms races, in and around Europe, have come under increasing strain.
The nature of work has been remarkably transformed in a short period of time through the combined effect of globalization and technological disruptions. Ongoing technological breakthroughs, carried by increasingly digitalized and automated economic activities, and the “democratization” of...
Following the release of the book La Turquie au Moyen Orient: le retour d'une puissance régionale? edited by Dorothée Schmid, head of the Contemporary Turkey Programme at Ifri, Ifri Brussels will host a seminar entitled ...
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...
The outlook is grim. EU governments are implementing austerity packages; populist and nationalist movements are growing; social discontent rages. Given these challenges, ten leading Brussels-based think tanks have joined forces to discuss the unavoidable issue of Solidarity and Austerity in...
Ifri and SWP will organize a closed Franco-German workshop on European and global economic and financial governance. The first panel will be devoted to the G8-G20, both to draw conclusions on the French presidency and assess future cooperation between France and Germany on that matter. The...
OSW and Ifri are hosting a lunch debate with Marek Menkiszak, Head of the Russian Division at OSW and Gilles Vander Ghinst, Head of Contact Countries, Global Partners Section, Political Affairs and Security Policy Division at NATO.
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Lunch debate in French with Marc Hecker, Research Fellow at Ifri's Security Studies Center, and Elie Tenenbaum, Research Fellow at Ifri's Security Studies Center.
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Damien Degeorges, a Junior Researcher at the French Institute of Strategic Research (IRSEM) and PhD candidate in Political Science, provided a wealth ofinformation concerning the geopolitical, energy, environmental and security position of Greenland in the Arctic.
Lunch debate introduced by Christophe Bertossi (Centre Migrations et Citoyennetés de l'Ifri), Hector Cebolla Boado (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Madrid), Danièle Joly (University of Warwick) and Johannes...
Lunch debate with Lassi Heininen, University lecturer and Adjunct Professor at the faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Finland.
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Conférence présidée par Dominique David, directeur exécutif, Ifri
Cette conférence s'inscrit dans le cadre des activités du Centre franco-autrichien pour le rapprochement en Europe (CFA).
