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Vít Novotný

What are the Lessons From the Terrorist Attacks in France and Austria?

A series of four terrorist attacks hit France and Austria between 25 September and 2 November 2020. All were perpetrated by young jihadists. At least eight people were killed, excluding the terrorists, and more were injured, some seriously. On 25 September in Paris, Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud, a 25-year-old Pakistani immigrant, stabbed two people outside the […]

17 November 2020

Danuta Maria Hübner

A Transatlantic Agenda for Digital Transformation

The EU takes the challenge of digital transformation very seriously. We have decided to make it, along with the Green Deal, the main driver for economic recovery and long-term growth. The EU has a profound and well-established reputation as a standard-setter. It is moving rather quickly toward a modern legal framework for its Digital Single […]

13 November 2020

Roland Freudenstein

Let’s Seize the Chance for a Transatlantic Renewal!

It’s been said after the US election that if outer space could transmit sound waves, someone standing on the surface of the moon could have heard a thunderous sigh of relief from Europe – and most of the world – on 7 November, around midday Eastern Time. And sure enough, immediately the debate started whether across the […]

10 November 2020

Janne Leino

China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025): Reshaping the EU-China relation

While the world is focused on the aftermath of the US elections and its consequences, China is currently discussing its Five-Year Plan, the most important guiding policy document at national, regional, and local levels, which will define its policies and direction for the foreseeable future. As a result of the successful containment of the Coronavirus, […]

09 November 2020

Thomas J. Duesterberg

Rebuilding US-EU Confidence for Joint Work on Trade Relations

The last two US presidents have not been keen to pursue trade liberalisation with long-time partners in Europe. The EU, in turn, has progressively developed an independent trade policy. Numerous irritants over the last decade have sapped any impetus to expend domestic political capital in major expansion of transatlantic free trade measures. On the US […]

02 November 2020

Roland Freudenstein

Konrad Niklewicz

The Chairman’s Culture War: Europe and Poland’s ‘Women’s Strike’

Roland Freudenstein is the Policy Director of the Martens Centre Konrad Niklewicz is a former Visiting Fellow of the Martens Centre He has only just entered the government as Deputy Prime Minister, but since 2015 he is the most powerful figure in Polish politics. Poland’s truly momentous political decisions are usually taken by him in the […]

30 October 2020

Mikuláš Dzurinda

Europe risks crumbling from within

To me, it seems we can no longer go on this way. By this, I mean the disagreements about basic principles that we should all be able to believe in. For us Europeans, a greater threat than the coronavirus pandemic is posed by our inability to act in a number of important areas. Areas that […]

29 October 2020

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