ECFR
European Council on Foreign Relations: the only pan-European think-tank. We foster coalitions for change and promote debate on Europe's global role.
- @boppenheim.bsky.social argues that "Israel is agitating for US strikes against Iran, while preparing for renewed war in Lebanon. Europeans should work to contain Trump and Netanyahu to prevent renewed offensives in both arenas, while supporting Lebanon’s fragile governance" 📌 bit.ly/4rDVCah
- Vladimir Shopov writes "China is shifting its economic strategies towards micro-integration and market diversification, which pose a more subtle danger to Europe’s industrial heartlands". @ecfrasia.bsky.social 👇 Read the commentary here: bit.ly/4tkx33M
- The thinkers and ideas of the rising nationalist right merit the political mainstream’s attention. Only by understanding them can it build a resilient counter-project. Read @markhleonard.bsky.social's new report. ecfr.eu/publication/...
- France’s G7 presidency coincides with an American-led G20. Paris will not find it easy to collaborate with the Trump administration, but it can still find meaningful areas for G7-G20 cooperation, writes @agathedemarais.com. Read the full commentary here: bit.ly/3OnL7cx
- 📢 New report! “The new right: Anatomy of a global political revolution”, authored by @markhleonard.bsky.social, ECFR’s co-founder and Director, unpacks the new right’s policy agenda and its communication and mobilisation strategy. 📌Read the full text: bit.ly/4a8rWLe
- "Though EU policymakers are presenting the bloc’s growing energy dependence on the US as a growing challenge, there are three reasons why Europeans shouldn’t panic", writes @szymonkardas.bsky.social from @ecfrpower.bsky.social. 👉 Read Szymon's recent commentary here: bit.ly/4rotVlr
- 📢 Working Student Position Open! Support ECFR's Re:Order Project from an administrative perspective for 20 hours per week. You can gain hands-on experience in event management and administration tasks at a think tank in the heart of Berlin! ⬇️ Apply now and join us! bit.ly/3M8qRLi
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- The India-EU trade deal this week is the best embodiment of the kind of “pragmatism” the moment really requires and proves that a like-minded approach to China can provide economic and strategic payoffs, write @ajwsmall.bsky.social and Janka Oertel. Read the full text 👇 bit.ly/4qPesv9
- Internship opportunity! We're looking for a Working Student to assist with Re:Order project’s overall event management & logistics activities and research efforts, ensuring the smooth execution of various tasks related to organizing events & day-to-day office administration. ecfr.eu/jobs/
- Europeans must adapt their approach to supporting Africa’s energy transitions—or risk losing out to China and other competitors ecfr.eu/publication/carbon-…
- Internship opportunity! We're looking for a Working Student to assist with Re:Order project’s overall event management & logistics activities and research efforts, ensuring the smooth execution of various tasks related to organizing events & day-to-day office administration. ecfr.eu/jobs/
- Internship opportunity! We're looking for a Working Student to assist with Re:Order project’s overall event management & logistics activities and research efforts, ensuring the smooth execution of various tasks related to organizing events & day-to-day office administration. ecfr.eu/jobs/
- Europeans must adapt their approach to supporting Africa’s energy transitions—or risk losing out to China and other competitors ecfr.eu/publication/carbon-…
- @rafaelloss.bsky.sociall writes "Greenland’s geography is a critical piece of Trump’s 'Golden Dome'. Alliance relations might be strained: but using NATO to improve US-European cooperation and counter Russian nuclear coercion could be a silver lining to this episode." 🔗👇 bit.ly/3NZwsnP
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- 🎧 New Week, New episode! @markhleonard.bsky.social is joined by Nathalie Delapalme, Carlos Lopes and Alex Vines to discover the pathways and bottlenecks facing the Europe-Africa relationship. @ecfrafrica.bsky.social 👇Listen to the full episode here: bit.ly/4kgXVO4
- The India-EU trade deal this week is the best embodiment of the kind of “pragmatism” the moment really requires and proves that a like-minded approach to China can provide economic and strategic payoffs, writes @ajwsmall.bsky.social and Janka Oertel. Read the full text 👇 bit.ly/4qPesv9
- After years of simmering competition between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, their clash is having an impact beyond Yemen and into the wider Red Sea region. This is reshuffling regional alliances and threatening to further destabilise Red Sea geopolitics, writes Camille Lons. 👉 bit.ly/4qa2Lhg
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- African countries view the energy transition as a tool for economic transformation, to deliver jobs, industrialisation and development. This stands in contrast to Europeans’ more limited focus on decarbonisation, write Sarah Logan and @madprocopio.bsky.social 👇 Read more: bit.ly/4rfJD2d
- 🎧 New Emergency episode! @markhleonard.bsky.social welcomes @jamescrabtree.bsky.social live from India, to unravel the recent EU-India trade deal. Together, they explore India’s strategic pivot amid US tariffs, the potential for deeper defence and tech ties. Listen now! bit.ly/467RWVM
- Reposted by ECFREurope needs green tech. Europe needs to be resilient against Chinese coercion. Two imperatives, two camps. How to reconcile them? @byfordt.bsky.social just published the definitive study for @ecfr.eu. Read it ⬇️ ecfr.eu/publication/...
- China’s economic approach and trade tactics are dampening the EU’s ambition to become a clean-tech powerhouse. Byford Tsang examines five EU member states' green transition status and suggests that clarifying trade-offs between climate ambition and economic security is vital ecfr.eu/publication/...
- The EU-India FTA deal is hot on the heels of Mercosur. Instead of decrying the end of a world order from which they benefitted, Europeans are finally embracing their trade strengths, writes @alberto-rizzi.bsky.social 👇Read the full commentary in our website. bit.ly/4tayhi4
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- Africa+1 summits have multiplied over the past decade. However, many of those summits have struggled to translate announcements into delivery. Commitments are ambitious but weakly institutionalised, reinforcing scepticism among African partners, writes Lena Krause. 🔗 bit.ly/3LXde1A
- In her new book „Wer verteidigt Europa?“ (Who Defends Europe?), @jpuglierin.bsky.social delivers a timely and insightful contribution to the debate on Europe’s security. The book (in German) is now available from Rowohlt: www.rowohlt.de/buch/jana-pu... …and wherever books are sold.
- "The past two decades of US military intervention in similar contexts suggests more bloodshed and instability, while also hollowing out the economy and sidelining moderate forces pushing for democratic change", writes Ellie Geranmayeh. 👉 bit.ly/3ZBg4MO
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- @markhleonard.bsky.social writes that "The lurching unpredictability of US foreign policy under Trump reflects American weakness rather than strength." In the era of the 'rupture in the world order', what lessons should Europeans draw from this moment? Find out more: bit.ly/4bV9nMZ
- The EU-India FTA is one of the largest trade agreements concluded in recent years, covering goods, services, investment, digital trade and regulatory cooperation. But even so, unresolved friction like CBAM, remains, write @manishareuter.bsky.social &@jamescrabtree.bsky.social bit.ly/4bkEkKr
- Russian officials know that the West’s overreliance on Chinese rare earths is a strategic weakness. Europe’s appetite for rare earths gives Russia’s mineral diplomacy a wedge and is likely to test the bloc’s cohesion, writes @kirland.bsky.social @ecfreuropeansec.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/3NOISPg
- On the eve of the EU‑India summit, a key question rises: are the two finally ready to cement a stable, future‑shaping trade partnership? @jamescrabtree.bsky.social argues Europe may offer India strategic balance without same geopolitical constraints as the US or Russia. 👉 bit.ly/3V8eOPa
- Trump has released a new National Defense Strategy (NDS). @rafaelloss.bsky.social points out that "One red thread weaves throughout American rhetoric and actions: unburdening the US from defending Europe." This calls for Europeans to do three things now. 👉 Read more: bit.ly/3NG6zcD
- 📍 ECFR in Greenland! After meeting key stakeholders in Nuuk, it’s clearer than ever that the Arctic is now central to European security. Stay tuned for upcoming ECFR research on Greenland and its strategic role. 👉 Check out our recent publications on Greenland: bit.ly/4jU1tWl
- 📢 ECFR is here in Nuuk, Greenland! Katrine Westgaard argues that Europe now has an important opportunity to strengthen its political and economic ties with Greenland. @ecfreuropeansec.bsky.social Keep up to date with ECFR's research on Greenland! 👉 bit.ly/4jU1tWl
- 📣 Live from Nuuk, Greenland! ECFR's experts, Tiago Antunes and Katrine Westgaard visited Greenland to understand the local atmosphere and to examine the validity of what President Trump argues regarding Greenland. Check out our recent publications on Greenland here! ▶️ bit.ly/4jU1tWl
- "Even if the events of January 2026 were to add to Trump’s unpopularity across Europe, his warmongering could still help his ideological allies. A successful culture war does not require Trump sycophancy", writes @pawelzerka.bsky.social. @ecfrpower.bsky.social bit.ly/45NBdXV
- Under Meloni and Merz, Italy and Germany increasingly engage eye-to-eye, not as debtor and creditor, but as two industrial powers confronting similar challenges The Italy-Germany partnership could knock down the barriers that are holding Europe back, writes Giorgio Rutelli. 👉https://bit.ly/45sy5QY
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- @hlovatt.bsky.social outlines a Board of Peace structure proposed by Trump in Davos. "The mixture of private investment funds with American power and geopolitics, combined with likely opaque decision-making and is a recipe for kleptocratic oligarchy." 📌 Check out more: bit.ly/4rarkvA
- "Welcome to the America-First Trumpian world. Board of Peace members that step out of line risk the diplomatic humiliation of being fired by Trump as if they were contestants on The Apprentice", writes @hlovatt.bsky.social @ecfrmena.bsky.social 👇Read the full commentary: bit.ly/4rarkvA
- Reposted by ECFRMy longer read for @ecfr.eu on what Trump's Board of Peace means for Gaza, Europe's quest for strategic autonomy, and the future of the global order: ecfr.eu/article/welc...
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- 🎙️Hear from Alexander Stubb, President of Finland, and @markhleonard.bsky.social on today’s shifting geopolitical landscape, drawing on his academic background and frontline diplomatic experience as the liberal world order gives way to power politics and multipolar disorder. 👉 bit.ly/4bdPOPU
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- This year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has been marked by Donald Trump’s plans regarding Greenland. You can listen to our Senior Policy Fellow, Majda Ruge, in an interview with @deutschewelle.dw.com on how Europe should respond. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOml...
- On January 8th Iranian authorities placed the country under a communication blackout to suppress protests. They also disabled the operations of external provider to shutdown access to the free satellite internet service. Read Ellie Geranmayeh and Giorgos Verdi's suggestion. bit.ly/4rplN4v
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- Reposted by ECFRMy best effort at understanding Trump's Board of Peace and its constituent parts. This is the Trump Organisation that the UK, Europe and Arab countries are being asked to buy into as an alternative to the UN. Understandably, many are hesitant.
- 🎧 New Week, New episode! @markhleonard.bsky.social sits down with Finnish president, Alexander Stubb in Davos for a conversation about Donald Trump’s view of Ukraine, Greenland, the world and Europe’s place in it. Listen to the live moments from Davos now: bit.ly/3LDOCLa
- EU decided to bring up Anti-Coercion Instrument, a 'trade bazooka', against Trump. What does the EU's Anti-Coercion Instrument provide? With their cards in hands, the EU should create an economic deterrence infrastructure and strengthen its existing anti-coercion instrument. bit.ly/4sWevqr
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- "Trump could conceivably change his mind over the urgency of the Greenland issue at any moment", writes @agathedemarais.com. Here are five principles European policymakers should keep in mind as they respond to Trump’s threats. @ecfrpower.bsky.social @ecfrgeotech.bsky.social bit.ly/4a2xnwh
- Nacho Torreblanca writes "After a US annexation of Greenland, the EU would resemble a modern, multinational Vichy regime—accepting weakness and irrelevance to avoid confrontation with its occupying power" 👇 Read the full commentary: bit.ly/49wRanC
- 📢 Internship Opportunity! Our Advocacy team is searching for an intern to support virtual, hybrid, and in‑person events in Berlin. You’ll help shape events from planning to working directly with stakeholders. There’s also room to take ownership of your own project. 👇 Join us: ecfr.eu/jobs/
- Reposted by ECFRYes, Europe has cards on Greenland. Here are 10 of them. @ecfr.eu
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- Can Europe, on its own, ensure a secure, free and prosperous future for Ukraine? How can Europe avoid a “dirty peace” while not facing accusations from its own citizens of obstructing the path to peace? ecfr.eu/publication/how-tru…
- “There is no such thing as an ideal version of free trade. Our best bet is as-free-as-possible trade.”, writes @jankaoertel.bsky.social. As China undercuts industry worldwide, it’s time to refresh the open market story. @ecfrpower.bsky.social bit.ly/4sQYZft
- Europeans shouldn’t panic about Donald Trump’s threats toward Greenland. They should act—fast and visibly—to raise the costs of any annexation attempt. They can play “Arctic hold‘em” – with ten European cards 👇 bit.ly/45AQ3kr
- "The notion that “time is on the Russian side” betrays a lack of strategic patience and, even more importantly, squandered opportunities to exploit Moscow’s growing structural vulnerabilities", write @jkobzova.bsky.social and Leo Litra. @ecfreuropeansec.bsky.social bit.ly/3LLfQzs
