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Join us for the launch of World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics by Bruno Maçães, followed by an in-depth discussion on tech sovereignty featuring leading thinkers in geopolitics and technology. big-europe.eu/2025-03-12-tec…

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"In dagen van crisis werken verbijstering en angst verlammend. Daarom dunkt mij de kracht ons mentaal een pad naar de toekomst te banen zeker zo onmisbaar als het vermogen ons militair tegen nieuwe dreigingen te verdedigen." Mijn afscheidsessay NRC nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/02…

Avec son ouverture à Poutine, Trump change la donne. Pris de court, les Européens se sont réunis 2 fois à Paris. Pourquoi ces sommets d'urgence ? Pourquoi à Paris ? Et, surtout, qui parle au nom de l’Europe ? J’en parle dans mon op-ed pour Le Monde.🔗 lemonde.fr/idees/article/…

Don’t miss our interviews as part of the 1989 Project that looks at this important historical turning point. 💬'The year 1989 was a Big Bang' - Andrei Grachev, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s last spokesperson in conversation with Rem Koolhaas and Luuk van Middelaar

📢 TOMORROW | Join us at 5:00pm for our event ‘Tech sovereignty – What does it mean?’ 📖 “World Builders” book launch with political philosopher and author Bruno Maçães, in discussion with our director Luuk van Middelaar Luuk van Middelaar 🗪 Followed by an in-depth discussion on

C’est un honneur d’accueillir Claude-France Arnould chez BIG pour penser à ses côtés la défense européenne. Sujet ô combien crucial à l’ère Poutine et Trump.

Delighted to host a stellar panel on AI and geopolitics Brussels Institute for Geopolitics last week. Brimming with ideas, a real intellectual feast! Tks Bruno Maçães, Ophélie Coelho and Daniel Mügge!

🚨 As European leaders gather in Brussels for the European Council summit, we are delighted to welcome Herman Van Rompuy, the first full-time President of the European Council, to BIG’s Advisory Council. 🚨 We look forward to his insights from a career at the pinnacle of

#Europe and its future in historical context via Financial Times on.ft.com/3QSPVos

Geweldig om op tv te spreken over het historische keerpunt in Amerikaans-Europese relaties met niemand anders dan Francis Fukuyama. In 10 minuten van de landing in Normandië en de val van de Berlijnse Muur tot aan de dubbele schok van Poetin en Trump.

Last week, I had the pleasure of moderating this excellent high-level exchange on energy and climate diplomacy. Grateful to participants for having brought deep insights and a strategic mindset to the table. I hope it will provide impetus ahead of COP30 in Belem, Brazil.

The Trump supernova that Europe didn’t see coming.  My editorial for Brussels Institute for Geopolitics on how Europe was blindsided to structural shifts in US domestic and foreign policy – in the making since long before this MAGA-inspired conflagration. big-europe.eu/publications/2…

The EU is issuing burner phones to US-bound staff over spying fears. BIG's Luuk van Middelaar talking to FT Europe, says “Washington is not Beijing or Moscow but an adversary prone to using extra-legal methods to further its interests & power.” ft.com/content/20d067…

“Europe has to get ready for a rougher world order where we have to be able to defend ourselves” Director Luuk van Middelaar talks to FRANCE 24 English about Europe’s place in a world of increasing geopolitical rivalries. france24.com/en/tv-shows/ta…

🇪🇺 Celebrate #EuropeDay with BIG on 9 May 🇪🇺 w/ Herman Van Rompuy, H. Mościcka-Dendys & Undine Ruge in conversation with Luuk van Middelaar on 'Who Speaks for Europe?' 📍 Open house at BIG + 🎻 by Lascar String Quartet. big-europe.eu/2025-05-09-ope…

📺 On Nieuwsuur, BIG director Luuk van Middelaar discusses the current turning point in US-European relations with none other than Francis Fukuyama. From the Normandy landings and the fall of the Berlin Wall to today’s world of Trump 2.0, talk of Greenland annexation and Russia’s

Luuk van Middelaar (Luuk van Middelaar): "We live in a post-Atlantic world. For Trump, ‘transatlantic’ means nothing—Europe must chart its own path. Strength is the only language understood by Trump and Putin. We must protect our political freedoms from the global rise of

Grateful for this good and timely conversation. An honour Jan Lipavský. Europe has the power of ideas.

Un grand merci Clément Beaune pour le passage chez BIG ce matin. Une conversation riche et importante pour la France et l’Europe sur notre défense collective.