Emerging security challenges in NATO’s southern neighbourhood

Ian O. Lesser. ARI 79/2019-3/7/2019.

NATO has always had a southern exposure. Today’s strategic environment provides a new context for this traditional question, but also raises fundamental questions of geography, alliance politics and a shared approach to risks.

The EU after the elections: a more plural Parliament and Council

Piotr Maciej Kaczyński. ARI 76/2019 - 26/6/2019.

What is the new balance of power in the EU’s institutions following the May 2019 elections?

Sánchez must snatch the Economic Vice-presidency for Spain

Miguel Otero-Iglesias & Ilke Toygür. Expert Comment 20/2019 - 11/6/2019.

Spain deserves a top job in the EU and Pedro Sánchez is determined to get it. For a country that is strongly pro-European and the fifth-largest (fourth, if Britain quits) economy in the Union, it is embarrassingly underrepresented. 

EU policy in the face of the Chinese challenge

Mario Esteban & Miguel Otero Iglesias. Expert Comment 18/2019 (English version) - 6/6/2019.

While the change in the European Commission’s narrative on China is highly significant, it is not at all clear how this will translate into the foreign policy of the various member states.

Subject and object: Europe and the emerging great-power competition

Luis Simón. Expert Comment 17/2019 - 30/5/2019.

The growing rivalry between the US and China compels Europeans to wake up to some hard facts. One of them is that we live in a world that is increasingly defined by great-power competition, in which the norms and institutions Europeans hold so dear may well take a back seat. 

EU-Japan EPA and SPA: more than a partnership, a necessary turning point for both

Ana María Goy Yamamoto. Expert Comment 16/2019 - 29/5/2019.

With just few weeks for the opening of the G20 summit in Osaka on 28-29 June, the stakes that the world economy faces are higher than ever. The current US-China trade turmoil is precisely what Japan and the EU are trying to avoid.

Spain’s influence in the European Parliament: an historical survey and predictions for the new political cycle

Ilke Toygür & Carlos Carnicero Urabayen. ARI 56/2019 - 21/5/2019.

The European parliamentary elections in May 2019 represent a major opportunity for Spain to increase its influence in the EU.

Legal challenges and the practicability of disembarkation centres for illegal migrants outside the EU

Arndt Künnecke. ARI 53/2019 - 16/5/2019.

This paper analyses the legal challenges and practicability of establishing of disembarkation centres for illegal migrants outside EU territory.

The US and the Iran Nuclear Deal: rejoining is wiser than destroying

Elcano Royal Institute. 8/5/2019.

Twenty one Directors and Senior Fellows of leading European think tanks calls on the US to reconsider its approach to the JCPOA and preserve the nuclear deal.

The bundle of sticks: a stronger European defence to face global challenges

Pedro A. Serrano de Haro. WP 03/2019 (printed edition) - 7/5/2019.

This paper describes some of the main initiatives developed by the EU in the field of security and defence during the last three years and how this has led to a stronger engagement with key international partners. It concludes with some reflections regarding the value of the EU as a platform for cooperation to face global challenges and on strategic autonomy.