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06/05/2024
The Lammy Doctrine, A Conversation With The Shadow Foreign Secretary
For the next political cycle in the UK, David Lammy is the man Keir Starmer has appointed to lead Britain's diplomacy if Labour wins the election. In a wide-ranging interview, he outlines his plan of action, his global doctrine and the search for more integrated cooperation with the EU.
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31/01/2022
The Double Integration Doctrine, a Conversation With Sabine Weyand
In this long in-depth interview, Sabine Weyand outlines her vision of the geopolitical challenges facing the European Union. In light of the shift from a rules-based order to a power-based order, the Director General of the European Commission's DG Trade and former Deputy Chief Negotiator for the Brexit negotiations looks at the meaning of open strategic autonomy, the dynamics of EU-China relations and the state of the transatlantic bond. From the carbon tax at the border to the deployment of a new anti-coercion instrument, Sabine Weyand also gives an overview of the main ongoing dossiers that should enable the Union to "Act according to its interests while preserving its openness”.
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25/10/2021
How green are electric vehicles?
As electric vehicles go mainstream, they face a persistent question: are they as green as advertised? Various life cycle assessments have confirmed that yes, electric vehicles are a more climate-friendly option than traditional vehicles. However, they can still have their own environmental impacts.
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08/09/2021
Elements For A Doctrine: In Conversation With Charles Michel
Can the Council - this institution of "first instance" now at the heart of the Union's political dynamics - articulate a doctrine? In the longest interview of his mandate, its president, Charles Michel, discusses his understanding of internal geopolitical dynamics, the lessons of Afghanistan and the essential ingredients to articulate a common European narrative between China and the United States.
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28/06/2021
Openness versus helplessness: Europe’s 2015-2017 border crisis
Hugo Brady – now a senior advisor at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development in Vienna – was previously advisor and speechwriter to Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, from January 2015 to December 2019. He gives an insider perspective on the often bellicose debates between EU leaders during this period; analyses Europe’s crisis response; and explains how smaller states protected their interests.
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22/06/2021
What the EU can do in and with the Indo-Pacific
In this founding text, the HR/VP Josep Borrell delineates for the first time the broad lines of his doctrine on the Indo-Pacific. According to the head of European diplomacy, the Union must adopt a strategic approach to this region of the world, in terms of trade but also in terms of security.
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14/06/2021
Voting Methods in Regional French Elections: a Democratic Device that has Become Dangerous
The "mixed" electoral system used for French regional elections is an exception in Europe. Designed to respond to a crisis situation in the 2000s, it now seems outdated. François Hublet proposes in this paper to re-establish from 2027 onwards a proportional representation list system at the regional level, with a threshold of 5% or 10%.
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31/05/2021
Russian chairmanship of the Arctic Council: The Awakening of a Giant
The meeting held on May 20, 2021 marked the beginning of Russia's rotating chairmanship of the Arctic Council. There are several indications that the country intends to promote its interests in the region, while playing the card of multilateralism and cooperation with member countries.
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24/05/2021
Italy and Europe will rise or fall together
In this working paper, economist Andrea Capussela offers a critical perspective on the Italian recovery plan. In his view, the recovery must use another scale: Europe. In return, the Union must also rely on the peninsula. A bold approach, to be read in the continuity of the proposals of Jean Pisani-Ferry and Olivier Blanchard for France.
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17/05/2021
« We want to involve citizens to build the future of Europe », a Conversation with David Sassoli
Elected to the presidency of the Parliament on July 3, 2019, 10 years after his first election as an MEP, David Sassoli has faced in a year and a half of presidency a series of crises (migration, mistrust of citizens towards Europe, social movements, populism, health crisis, management of the Brexit...). The Grand Continent met him before the launch of the Conference on the Future of Europe. In this interview, the longest given to a magazine, he comes back on the current role of this institution, as well as on his vision to face the challenges of the European Union in the face of crises, inside and outside its borders.
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06/05/2021
A Contingent Economic Strategy for the Next Phase
The large-scale stimulus plan adopted by Congress at the initiative of the Biden administration and the increase in growth forecasts that quickly followed have given rise to a debate in France and in Europe: should we do the same? If not, are we in danger of stalling?
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27/04/2021
The European Commission as a Political Engine of European integration, in conversation with Martin Selmayr
In this conversation, Frédéric Mérand and Martin Selmayr discuss at length the experiences and practices of decision-making within the European Commission. The sociologist and the technocrat sketch a political portrait of this technical institution perceived as very opaque.
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31/03/2021
Defeating terrorism and saving art: fighting the same battle
The global art and antiques market today presents a series of risks: geopolitical, security, diplomatic, economic... In this working paper, introduced by a foreword by Pierre Buhler, Elie Cavigneaux proposes regulatory solutions on a global scale.
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20/01/2021
China at the gates of the European power grid
In an increasingly digitalized industrial economy, power infrastructure becomes the target par excellence. As these networks go hand in hand with the European construction, they will be crucial for greater European solidarity in terms of energy.
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18/01/2021
Exclusive interview with Michael Mann, EU’s Ambassador at large for the Arctic/Special envoy for Arctic matters
In his longest and most critical interview, the European Union's Ambassador for the Arctic, Michael Mann, returned to the definition of European engagement in the region, in the context of broad consultations aimed at redefining the contours of the Union's Arctic policy.
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23/12/2020
Planting budgetary time bombs in Africa: the Macron Doctrine En Marche
Is the Macron doctrine in favor of a Euro-African axis really serious? According to two economists, the Paris consensus will extend the Wall Street consensus on the use of public-private partnerships in development assistance. This large-scale risk-neutralization strategy actually poses significant dangers to African states' budgets.
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07/12/2020
Polylateralism as the way forward, a conversation with Pascal Lamy
Serving as President of the Paris Peace Forum, Pascal Lamy, in this exclusive interview with le Grand Continent, puts forth the global strategy and doctrine behind this initiative : in a world which will remain chaotic despite Donald Trump’s disappearance, polylateralism appears to be the key to address the crisis of multilateralism.
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07/12/2020
Towards subsidiary crisis management
Our trilingual report with a foreword by Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn suggests "subsidiary crisis management", a novel approach inspired by the institutional response of Germany, Switzerland or Belgium during the crisis, as a way to make our crisis response more regionally flexible and citizen-centric.
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22/07/2020
Public debt and COVID-19. Paying for the crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean
The COVID-19 crisis has been an exceptional, unexpected and exogenous shock to countries across the region. Meanwhile, abundant liquidity remains in international capital markets, making this crisis different to past global crises. International coordinated action must contribute to solve debt sustainability problems and respond to the impact of the crisis.
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13/07/2020
A visa for the European dream
At a time when a historic recovery plan is being drafted, the EU Heads of State and Government are expressing a desire for solidarity-based reconstruction and economic and fiscal harmonisation. A common visa and tax credit for technological and scientific talents would give a concrete effect to this effort.
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06/07/2020
Seven ideas for a European Cultural Recovery Plan
For years, the only people who have been talking passionately about Europe are its enemies. If pro-Europeans want to be able to fight against their vision, the first thing to do is to step outside the established framework, even if it means risking controversy. An innovative policy paper by Giuliano Da Empoli.
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22/06/2020
Sustainable and innovative financing tools against epidemics
Heterogeneous data, knowledge and profiles that rarely meet must be brought together to give shape, during the crisis, to the world that will come after. Groupe d’études géopolitiques releases today, within the framework of the Covid-19 Geopolitical Observatory, its fifth working paper, signed by Pauline Deschryver, with a foreword by Guido Schmidt-Traub, Executive Director UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
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16/06/2020
EU crisis and reform : is differentiated integration the answer ?
The Covid-19 pandemic reinforces the crises of integration that the European Union has experienced in the past decade. The asymmetric Corona shock exacerbates the existing divides in economic performance and fiscal health between Northern and Southern European member states and puts new pressures on the cohesion of the Eurozone.
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08/06/2020
How to treat Africa’s Covid-contaminated debt ? An innovative proposal
The Covid-19 pandemic reveals and accentuates structural economic imbalances, including high indebtedness, for most African countries. Alleviating the debt burden for low-income African economies which nonetheless bear specific debts, is a puzzle that leads to the examination of diverse and probably complementary solutions.
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01/05/2020
The impact of Covid-19 on work : telemigration, relocation, environnement
What is the impact of Covid-19 on work ? This working paper published by Groupe d'études géopolitiques, gives an initial assessment of the possible widespread of teleworking, between telemigration, relocation and environmental impact.
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