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Europe’s Place in a ‘World of Disorder’ with Alexander Stubb at EIF23
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What is the future of the European Green Deal? – EIF23 Panel
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EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers video message to EIF23
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EPP President & EPP Group Chairman Manfred Weber’s opening address at EIF23
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Martens Centre President Mikulas Dzurinda delivers the opening remarks at the European Ideas Forum
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China’s Influence on the Western Balkans’ EU Accession Process: Synergies and Obstacles
This study examines the influence of China’s presence and activities on the European Union (EU) integration process of the Western Balkans. Since the Thessaloniki Summit of 2003, only Croatia managed to join the EU, while the other countries in the region remain candidates for membership, with little prospects to join by 2030. The research investigates […]
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The State of the European Union – A Need for Unity and Solidarity
This is a joint publication of the Martens Centre and the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Bulgaria, and contains the conference proceedings from the common project “The State of the European Union – a Need for Unity and Solidarity” co-organised in cooperation with the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski” earlier this year. The articles in […]
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The Strategic Relevance of a European Perspective for Belarus and the EU
The aim of this conference is to identify the current and foreseeable interests of the EU towards Belarus; to work out a clear narrative and convincing messaging on the European character of Belarus and the strategic relevance of its ”European Perspective” as a credible and attractive geopolitical alternative; to identify key fields in which pro-democratic […]
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Niccolò Mazzocchetti
Niccolò Mazzocchetti joined the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies team in September 2023. Prior to this, he served as the EU Public Affairs Officer at I-Com, the Institute for Competitiveness, a think-tank based in Rome and Brussels. Before that role, he worked as a Public Sector Consultant at Intellera Consulting, former PwC Public Sector, […]
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Samuel Crooks
Prior to his internship at the Martens Centre, Samuel studied the MPhil Modern European History and BA Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge (Downing College). His academic interest in European affairs was particularly developed through his undergraduate dissertation on Konrad Adenauer’s foreign policy 1949-1963 with a focus on Westbindung. At Master’s level, […]
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Alessandra De Martini
Alessandra De Martini holds a Master’s degree in International Security from the International University of Rome. She joined the Martens Centre as a Communications Intern, assisting the team on a range of tasks, including the organisation of the Centre’s events and conferences. Before her current position, she had been a Schuman trainee at the European […]
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Francois Barbieux
Francois Barbieux is a graduate of Tilburg University and the University of Amsterdam, from which he respectively holds a BSc in Global Management of Social Issues and an MSc in Political Science. He also spent a Semester at San Diego State University where he studied International Security and Conflict Resolution. He joined the Martens Centre […]
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Security and Defence Days 2023
The event is co-organized by De Gasperi Foundation and the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, in cooperation with the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, and comes at a particularly delicate time for the international scenario, with the Russian aggression against Ukraine threatening the security of the entire West, an increasingly asserti China, and a strongly […]
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Who’s Afraid of Chinese Electric Vehicles and Clean Tech?
The big announcement finally came. The European Commission will investigate whether China’s electrical vehicles (EV) industry has benefitted from over-generous state support in order to price-cut European competitors. A few days ago, the acting competition commissioner hinted that a similar move might follow on Chinese wind turbines. China’s EV and wind turbine manufacturing sector (similar […]
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Poland election: final results suggest opposition parties could form Tusk-led coalition
Mikuláš Dzurinda, a former Slovak prime minister, told the Guardian this morning that the outcome of the Polish election would “boost the centripetal tendencies in the EU”. Dzurinda, who now heads the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies – the official thinktank of the centre-right European People’s Party – also said that the opposition’s strong […]
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Poland’s Election Had a Surprise Winner: The EU
“The results are signaling that Poland is coming back to the heart of Europe” says Eoin Drea, senior researcher at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
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Remembering our Founder Wilfried Martens on the 10th anniversary of his passing
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After the World’s Crocodile Tears for Armenians, What Next for the South Caucasus?
One can only be deeply moved by the sight of exhausted Armenians, fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh in droves. Over a hundred years after the Armenian genocide (perpetrated by the Young Turks in 1915-1917, though still not officially acknowledged by Türkiye), and the establishment of the first Armenian state in 1918, the lightning Azeri offensive forced the so-called […]
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Study Reveals Europe’s Middle Class Malcontents
Report author and senior researcher Federico Ottavio Reho told The European Conservative: “I will tell you the finding that struck me the most: the study revealed that in parts of Southern and Eastern Europe, notably Bulgaria, Greece and Slovakia, a sizable portion of the citizens feel let down by society, while significant minorities have greater than average […]
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Towards a new EU relationship with northern Africa
Migration, terrorism and energy — three ‘crisis’ topics — have preoccupied EU policy and their societies’ view of their neighbourhood in northern Africa for a long time. Caught in (post-)colonial attitudes, misled by a deplorable lack of knowledge of internal developments, and frightened by new geopolitical competitors: Europe’s relations with northern Africa is a good […]
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Putin’s New Budget: A Declaration of Endless War
On the background of talks about international fatigue over the war in Ukraine, and calls for “peace negotiations”, Vladimir Putin has issued the clearest declaration of intent for upcoming years: he is ready to double down on attacking Ukraine, and has no wish for the war to end any time soon. The Russian Government recently […]