China’s recent military exercises around Taiwan highlight its escalating ambitions and hybrid tactics aimed at reshaping the ...

The second meeting between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul has shown that a settlement is a distant prospect. To strengthen ...

By stationing troops in Lithuania, Germany sets a precedent that other European powers may soon be pressed to emulate.

Once a beacon of progressive hope, Tunisia’s economy teeters on the brink and its president jails opponents and scapegoats ...

Britain’s new Strategic Defence Review largely ignores its largest and closest partner, the EU. To ensure its NATO first approach doesn’t become a NATO only one, London should expand its ...

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Piotr Buras, head of ECFR’s Warsaw office, for a 15-minute rapid-response episode dissecting the outcome of Poland’s presidential election.Yesterday, right-wing ...

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Tiago Antunes, ECFR associate senior fellow at and former Portuguese secretary of state for European affairs; and Nicu Popescu, ECFR distinguished policy fellow ...

The EU and South Africa should accept political differences and pursue a pragmatic partnership, mutually strengthening ...

Berlin – The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) today launched its new data platform, an open-access repository designed to unlock the wealth of information from ECFR’s public opinion polls.

European leaders seem to care about the EU’s external image. In January, an ECFR poll showed that people outside Europe had more faith in the EU’s global standing than Europeans themselves. This ...

The EU was a bystander in relations between Turkey and Cyprus, which deteriorated in 2011 owing to the gas exploration dispute in the Eastern Mediterranean. The EU would like to see a settlement in ...

As the MENA region descended into chaos, Europe lacked a coherent strategy beyond reaching for the chequebook Regional chaos and the resulting refugee flows precipitated an existential crisis for the ...