The conference room at ECFR's London office was packed this morning with guests who came to hear Joseph Nye and Mark Malloch Brown discuss geopolitics.

Read the transcript or listen to audio of the ECFR European Foreign Policy Scorecard's US launch, held at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC

On the 20th of April, in Rome, ECFR held the Italian launch event for the European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2010.

ECFR London today hosted a Black Coffee Morning on the thorny question of Who leads the EU? Our guest speakers were Federiga Bindi, advisor to the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Katinka Barysch, Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform, and David Rennie, political editor and Bagehot (and former Charlemagne) columnist at The Economist.

ECFR London today held a discussion session on What Next for Libya? The audience heard answers to this question from a military perspective, from a humanitarian standpoint and from Libyan National Transitional Council itself.

Jürgen Habermas used his speech at an event co-hosted by ECFR Berlin and Mercator to criticise political elites for shirking their responsibility for delivering Europe to its citizens

The launch of ECFR's European Foreign Policy Scorecard in Brussels included high-profile guests and vigorous debate over Europe's challenges in being an influential actor on the global stage.

The two lead authors of the Scorecard - Justin Vaisse and Hans Kundnani - were joined by John Peet of the Economist and ECFR director Mark Leonard for a packed Black Coffee Morning at ECFR's London offices to discuss the project and European foreign policy

Aryeh Neier, President of the Open Society Foundations, spoke about the Arab revolutions from the perspective of a human rights advocate at an ECFR London Black Coffee morning today. He talked about being an accidental eye witness to the protests in Cairo, about why the current revolutions are different to 1989, and how Obama can play an 'inspirational role'.

ECFR’s Madrid office hosted a series of meetings to discuss the German role in Europe last 23 February 2011 in Madrid. Ulrike Guérot, senior policy fellow and head of ECFR’s Berlin Office, talked about how European is the new Germany with journalists from the main Spanish newspapers during a media lunch.