EU Special Summit Agrees on Post-Pandemic Recovery Fund
After four days of intensive negotiations, the EU special summit has finally made a breakthrough: EU leaders agreed on a recovery fund to combat the economic consequences of the coronavirus …
Jeff Rathke on European Defense Agenda with Smaller U.S. Footprint in DefenseNews
AGI President Jeff Rathke discusses German defense minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer’s call for the European Union to prepare for the possibility of a U.S. disengagement from European security–regardless of election outcome: …
Instead of Trade Wars, the U.S. and EU Need a ‘Safe Trade’ Agenda
Writing in World Politics Review, AGI Senior Fellow Peter Rashish calls for the next U.S. to “launch a ‘Safe Trade’ agenda that creates growth, resilience and security without abandoning U.S. …
Helmut Kohl and NATO Enlargement: The Search for the Post-Cold War Order
NATO Enlargement as Order-Building Diplomacy Helmut Kohl’s achievements as a statesman go well beyond Germany’s unification. In the second half of his sixteen-year tenure, Kohl played a major role in …
EU Strategic Autonomy: Opening Up?
As the idea of “strategic autonomy” (de jure sovereignty) has migrated within the European Union from the foreign and defense policy realm to economics and trade it has picked up …
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Keep Neutral and Carry On: The European Union’s Continuing Search for a China Policy
The June 22 EU-China Summit ended without a joint statement. Although both sides stressed the importance of cooperation, the EU is clearly dissatisfied with the state of bilateral relations. The …
Episode 28: From Frugality to Stimulus: Responses to the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging all aspects of modern society. Public health systems are grappling with a disease that has spread faster than anything in a century. Workplaces have lain …
In Times of China’s Claim to Power: Transatlantic Partnership at a Crossroads
Reactions and strategies to fight the coronavirus crisis have varied around the globe. While the world is still trying to manage life with the virus, the pandemic could also mark …
Episode 27: EU-U.S. Relations: Messy but Valuable
The European Union is one of the world’s most important but least understood international bodies. It is simultaneously many things: a collection of institutions, including an executive administration (the European …
How Will the EU Survive the Coronavirus?
What will be the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Europe? How will the pandemic change the trajectory of European development? One way to answer these questions is to ask …
Beyond Pandemic: China, 17+1, and the Influence Competition in the CEE Region
Ever since the inception of the China-CEEC (Central and Eastern European Countries) Initiative in 2012, officials and politicians in many Western European countries as well as the European Union have …
The Franco-German Motor Revs Up
At a joint videoconference on May 18, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron proposed a €500 billion Recovery Fund to help EU member states rebound from the …
