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The French White Book: a Contribution to the European Council ?
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by Myrto Hatzigeorgopoulos The Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN) and Egmont hosted a conference on “The French Continue reading →...
Renewed Ambitions for NATO?
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by Myrto Hatzigeorgopoulos On 17 June 2013 ISIS Europe attended the “Renewed Ambitions for NATO” event, organised by Carnegie Europe Continue reading →...
A more coherent EU “Peace Policy”?
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by Myrto Hatzigeorgopoulos On 6 June 2013, ISIS Europe attended the experts’ workshop on ‘A More Coherent EU “Peace Policy”?’, organised by the Brussels office of the Friedrich Ebert Continue reading →...
Gas in East Mediterranean: a complicated story
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by Elena Marda The Energy Roundtable Breakfast organised by the Institute Français de Relations Internationales (IFRI) on 4 June 2013 on ‘East Mediterranean New Offshore Gas Resources: What’s in for Continue reading →...
Time for CSDP to become pragmatic?
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by Myrto Hatzigeorgopoulos What can one expect from the December 2013 European Council on Defence? What importance will be given to the discussions on the future development of the Common Continue reading →...
Should the EU become a mediator?
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by Elena Marda Should the EU become an international peacemaker? Does the EU have the leverage to become one? Would a European Institute of Peace be of added value? These Continue reading →...
Kenya after the elections
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by Lorène Fara-Andrianarijaona On 28 May 2013, the Hanns Seidel Foundation organised a high level conference on “Challenges of integrity: political processes and leadership in Kenya”. Peter Kenneth, presidential Continue rea...
Breaking down the Walls: improving EU-NATO relations
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by Myrto Hatzigeorgopoulos On 27 May 2013, ISIS Europe attended the presentation of the latest publication of the Centre for European Studies (CES) entitled “Breaking down the walls: improving EU-NATO Continue reading →...
Women in peace: from theory to practice
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by Lorène Fara Andrianarijaona On Tuesday 21 May 2013, Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) – Brussels organised a conference on “Gender, violence and war: how successful has the international Continue reading →...
Idées pour renforcer l’influence régionale de l’UE
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by Francois Ducrotté - Bruxelles, 15 Mai 2013, présentation du rapport ”Think Global-Act European. Thinking strategically about the EU’s external action” (Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute,...
Elections in Pakistan: still far from a ‘Pakistani Spring’
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by Elena Marda The recent Pakistani elections have received sustained attention by the world media and the appointment of Nawaz Sharif as Prime Minister spurred optimism regarding the relations of Continue reading →...
MENA: players, plans, positions
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by Myrto Hatzigeorgopoulos The first day of the two day conference on “Europe’s Southern Neighbourhood” organised by Carnegie Europe, in collaboration with Egmont, the European Parliament and the Swiss Federal Continue reading &rarr...
Syria’s opposition: who is who?
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by Lorène-Fara Andrianarijaona On Wednesday 8th of May, CNAPD (Coordination Nationale d’Action pour la paix et la Démocratie) invited Mr. Paul Delmotte, Professor and specialist on Middle-East, to help to Continue reading →...
Muslim Democracy ASAP?
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by Elena Marda The latest Committee of Foreign Affairs at the European Parliament was not an ordinary one. This time it was a high level session on ‘Understanding Political Islam: Continue reading →...
North Korea: Give a break
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by Francois Ducrotté Back in the days of the Japanese occupation between 1910 and 1945, the ones who resisted the Japanese were the Koreans from the North. Let’s give a break Continue reading →...
The carrot without the stick: Kosovo and Cyprus
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by Elena Marda With the carrot of European integration hanging above their heads, Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and Serbia’s leader Ivica Dacic finally reached a 15 point Continue reading →...
BRICS: threat or opportunity for EU?
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By Myrto Hatzigeorgopoulos ‘BRICS is not a threat, BRICS is an opportunity’. Those were the closing remarks of Ambassador Mxolisi Nosi, Ambassador of South Africa to Belgium, Luxembourg and Continue reading →...
Much ado about what the EU can do in Syria
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by Elena Marda On April 24th, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung along with IKV Pax Christi presented its new policy paper on ‘What can the EU can do in Syria’ in Continue reading →...
Egypt – A new ally to defend women’s right to protest?
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by Francois ducrotté Even after two years, Egypt still doesn’t have a strong central government which could be able to push the political process forward, as well as the economy and social cohesion. Today, what is happenin...
North Korea 2.0 – The use of social media as traditional media
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by Francois ducrotté North Korea and South Korea are still in state of war including different tensions such as: Nuclear, propaganda, cyber attacks, tunnel, invasion, role of the major powers etc. There are no really conclusions or answers as...
