Exciting 2 days in Brussels kicking off REUNIR Horizon Europe Project on making #EU's enlargement&eastern neighborhood policies fit for purpose in context of Russian & other threats. Public discussion focuses on most urgent question: how to keep momentum for enlargement in a world in turmoil?

What if the US really abandons Ukraine – and Europe along with it? Countries like 🇵🇱 and the Baltic states have ramped up their military spending, but Thorsten Benner tells The Wall Street Journal that unless 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 follow suit, fear will continue to spread. wsj.com/world/will-the…

New project REUNIR Horizon Europe Project GPPi: Anticipating authoritarian foreign influencing in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and making EU foreign policy fit to respond. #forecasting #foresight #enlargement #neighborhood gppi.net/project/reunir

For our blog this week Abi Watson (@abiwatson.bsky.social) and Philipp Rotmann from GPPi have compared the pursuit of joint working in the UK and Germany. Read below👇👇 reform.uk/comment/the-pu…

Enjoyed comparing attempts to improve shared working in the UK and Germany. In both cases: if political leaders decide that the only way to succeed is jointly and they agree that success really matters then joint working is successful. If not, it’s not.

For anyone in Prague (or online!) keen to learn about global governance, its challenges and the ENSURED consortium. 👇

🗞️📨 Our latest newsletter just dropped! In this issue: ✅a review of Afghanistan reviews; ✅what Berlin can learn from Ukrainians; ✅debating the future of humanitarianism; ✅two new Horizon Europe projects; ✅everything else we’ve been up to recently. mailchi.mp/gppi/never-say…

Why much of the German elite reaction to the one-sided focus of Berlinale speakers on Palestinian suffering was overblown & counterproductive (to put it mildly). A few points for Alex Marshall The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/02/27/mov…

📅 🌍 Don't miss our panel on strategic early warning and foresight in global security with Sarah Bressan @bressansar.bsky.social, GilMurciano, @MarieWgn & Julian Wucherpfennig! 🕒 Wed, 13.03.2024 | 6-7:30pm | On-Site Register now! ⬇️ hertie-school.org/en/events/even…

📽️ Good migration policy means moving beyond short-term crisis responses & toward sustainable co-development, says ENSURED's Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi (Maastricht University). In ENSURED, we'll examine the state-of-play in 🌍 migration & human rights governance and offer action points for the future.

When 🇷🇺’s war against 🇺🇦 eventually comes to an end, there will need to be a new order for peace in the region. Julia Friedrich and other experts will discuss how that could look at this Petra-Kelly-Stiftung event. 📆 March 20, 18:30 CET 📍 Online Register 👇 petrakellystiftung.de/de/afar/event%…

“No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all of your knowledge is about the past and all of your decisions are about the future.”(Ian Wilson) GPPi's new strategic #foresight portfolio is now live: gppi.net/issue-area/str…

📢 30 years after the atrocities, the study "German Foreign Policy and the Rwandan Genocide" is now available in 🇬🇧. Sarah Brockmeier-Large & Anton (Anjo) Peez took a look at the archival records of the Foreign Ministry in 2021. Thanks to GPPi for the cooperation. boell.de/en/2021/03/29/…

📽️ For global institutions to make better decisions, civil society needs a seat at the table, says ENSURED's Inés Pousadela (CIVICUS). How can global governance do better at including civil society voices? Some ideas 👇

The 1st step toward better global governance: a pretty website? Probably not. But big news: the ENSURED web hub is now live! 🎉 The website will house our research, policy briefs, blogs & events. Already, there's a lot of exciting updates... 👉 ensuredeurope.eu

The lost honor of Gerhard Schröder. It's not just Kremlin connection. Same fatal interplay of ego, ideology & profit turned Schröder into an apologist of 🇨🇳party-state. One of many in 🇩🇪elite. My congratulations on Schröder's 80th. Agenda Pública EL PAÍS. agendapublica.es/noticia/19155/…

Hard to imagine daily life at GPPi without the one and only Katharina Nachbar. But this is what we need to start preparing for. GPPi looks for new Communicator-in-Chief based in our Berlin office as of 1 Jan (or earlier). Please spread the word. gppi.net/about/jobs-int…

What does life under Russian occupation look like? I collected stories of Ukrainians who lived through occupation in 2022-23 to understand Russia's occupation practice and its human cost. Taken together, these individual experiences show a grim reality👇 gppi.net/2024/07/30/lif…