Between 2020 and early 2022, the West was in disarray, which prompted Putin to think Europe and the US were not paying attention to #Ukraine , said Fiona Hill.

On #EuropeInsideOut , she and Thomas de Waal discussed the future of Russia's neighbors ➡ europe-inside-out.simplecast.com/episodes/what-…

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Join Crisis Group's President Comfort Ero and angel saz-carranza as they dissect the surge of authoritarianism and its repercussions for EU-Africa relations.👇

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🇬🇪 | Georgia's Youth Protests Call for an EU Policy Rethink

The EU's failure to use strict conditionality emboldened Tbilisi to pursue regressive policies.

Brussels should adjust its democracy support strategy & empower grassroots.

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Radical-right parties are expected to make significant gains in the upcoming #EUelections2024 .

Today at 5pm, Rosa Balfour, Zsuzsanna Szelenyi, Pekka Haavisto, and Ivana Dragicevic will discuss what this would mean for European #democracy & EU foreign policy.

Join ➡️ carnegieendowment.org/events/2024/05…

📢 Carnegie Europe seeks an editor in chief to steer the 'Strategic Europe' blog into an exciting new chapter.

If you're a media professional with a network in Brussels & a passion for making foreign policy punchy and accessible, apply by Friday, May 17: carnegieendowment.applicantpro.com/jobs/3332592

🛡️ | In the past decade, #defense has been the domain with the largest number of major new EU initiatives.

But the growing European security field should be made more inclusive, accountable, and transparent, argue Ricardo Farinha & Richard Youngs ⤵️

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Georgia is a puzzling case: it is still a #democracy with an opposition but has a bizarre elite that says it wants to join the EU but makes overtures toward Russia, said Thomas de Waal on #EuropeInsideOut .

Listen to his conversation with Fiona Hill ➡ europe-inside-out.simplecast.com/episodes/what-…

NATO should play a bigger role in ensuring that the West helps Ukraine win the war.

Institutionalizing allied support to Ukraine would ensure sustainability & continuity in operations regardless of national governments, says Anna Wieslander.

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🌍 | The EU's fate is intimately entangled with developments across the world, and while globalization has lost momentum, but it will not be reversed.

What people think of Europe and its policies will have an impact on both, writes Stefan Lehne .

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Amid a global race for #AI supremacy, Europe wants to set standards for AI regulation while maintaining a technological edge.

To succeed, it must navigate an increasingly crowded & competitive AI global governance landscape, writes Dr Raluca Csernatoni.

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Berlin could have used its special relationship with Israel to mediate the conflict with the Palestinians, but squandered that opportunity.

Its mealy-mouthed criticism of Israel's relentless bombing of Gaza reveals 🇩🇪's inconsistency, says Judy Dempsey.

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The effectiveness of the EU's strategic partnership framework is being called into question.

One issue is that the EU engages with partners through multiple diplomatic instruments in pursuit of different objectives, write Meltem Müftüler-Baç & Ezgi Uzun Teker.

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