Ionela Maria Ciolan
@ionelaciolan
🇪🇺 Foreign policy, Security & Defence @MartensCentre; ReThink.CEE Fellow @gmfus; fmr @natopapress @epc_eu & @CEPA; Fulbrighter @UCBerkeley; My views
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https://www.martenscentre.eu/article-author/ionela-ciolan/ 03-03-2015 08:30:18
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As Europe ramps up defence production, big money is needed to do so. Since March European Commission has called on European Investment Bank to do more to finance defence programs. But a closed-door conversation this morning at the Martens Centre shows the Bank is still in dubio over weapons (🧵 1/6)
"The stakes are high for #Moldova in the constitutional referendum. Moscow’s hybrid war may intensify illegal financing of pro-Russian parties, political tactics, vote-buying and political bribery." An analysis by Ionela Maria Ciolan ispionline.it/en/publication…
Join me tomorrow to unpack the results of #MoldovaVotes - referendum & Presidential elections - with Iulian Groza & Ionela Maria Ciolan epc.eu/en/events/Key-…
🇲🇩 A Quiet Victory: Key Takeaways from Moldova’s EU Membership Referendum 🇲🇩 #Moldova’s recent #EU membership #referendum passed with a razor-thin majority.🗳 🔍 Dive into the full analysis by Ionela Maria Ciolan & Mihai Mogildea Institute for European Policies and Reforms. 👉 martenscentre.eu/blog/a-quiet-v… #FocusFuture
🇬🇪 🇲🇩 #Georgia and #Moldova at the Ballot Box: What impact on EU #Integration & #Enlargement? 🇬🇪 🇲🇩 Join us for expert insights - featuring Thomas Hagleitner Kornely Kakachia Iulian Groza Tomi Huhtanen & Teona Lavrelashvili- on these pivotal elections. 🔗 martenscentre.eu/event/georgia-… #FocusFuture
We were honored to host brilliant speaker in-person and virtually Dmytro Shulga Felix Hett Wojciech Przybylski George Visan Ionela Maria Ciolan Michal Matlak Pavel Havlicek Igor Janke - Układ Otwarty #ValeriyChaly Olena Tregub #IvanNagornyak #ChristopherForst Pavlo Rad Oleksiy Goncharenko etc. 16 countries represented!
🛡️A New Era for European #Defence Policy 🛡️ 👥The EU’s newly-appointed Commissioner for Defence Andrius Kubilius will provide his insights in an exclusive discussion with Camille Grand and Tomi Huhtanen at #EIF24. 🗓️Register below: 👉 martenscentre.eu/event/eif-24/ #FocusFuture
Join us in #Brussels on 5 December at 4:00 PM for a public debate "Shielding European Democracy: Scenarios from Central Europe" with Ionela Maria Ciolan, Magda Jakubowska, Rasťo Kužel, and Wojciech Przybylski. 🔗REGISTER HERE: visegradinsight.eu/event-brussels… 👉 Key questions include how Europe can
It's not every day that your work is praised by a 🇪🇺 Commissioner 😊. Thank you for the kind words Andrius Kubilius 🙏 and congrats to my colleagues who contributed to this proposal for the White Paper on European Defence Daniel Fiott Christian Mölling Mihai Chihaia and #KlausWelle
⏳Time is running out! 12 Dec: Don’t miss this critical conversation on how Moldova & Georgia are standing strong against Russian interference. 🎙️With experts: 🔷Ionela Maria Ciolan – from Martens Centre 🔷Thomas THALER 🇪🇺🇦🇹🇧🇪 – from APCO Brussels 🔷Vassilis Ntousas from German Marshall Fund Register👇
💡 A Meaningful Discussion on Democracy Yesterday, with our partner APCO Brussels, we discusssed how to strengthen democracy and resilience against the risk of foreign intervention. Thanks to our speakers Ionela Maria Ciolan, Thomas THALER 🇪🇺🇦🇹🇧🇪, Vassilis Ntousas & everyone who joined!