The European Council on Foreign Relations

A marginalised Britain makes EU break-up more likely

2011-11-03T15:58:20+00:00

The actions of Britain's coalition government are making it more likely that we will see the EU disintegrate, leaving behind a saved Eurozone that marginalises all those outside it - including Britain itself.

Why enlargement-lite will not save the Arab Spring

2011-10-25T09:30:08+00:00

The European Union has a vital role to play in helping consolidate the transitions of the Arab Spring. But first they need to rethink their approach and develop a new foreign policy for the Southern neighbourhood: Enlargement lite will not work.

Europe’s multipolar neighbourhood

2011-10-04T08:03:42+00:00

The upheavels in North Africa are further evidence that the EU's neighbourhood has fundamentally changed, both to the south and to the east. In response, the EU needs to develop a real foreign policy to deal with this increasingly competitive region.

Why China wants a G3 world

2011-09-12T08:37:54+00:00

Despite the fashionable talk about BRICS and the G2 of Washington and Beijing, we really now live in a G3 world that combines US military power and consumption, Chinese capital and labour, and European rules and technology.

A tribute to Ron Asmus

2011-05-02T10:45:43+00:00

A personal tribute to Ron Asmus, Brussels Office Executive Director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, from Mark Leonard, Director of ECFR.

Bring Germany in from the cold on Libya

2011-03-31T13:37:10+00:00

It is too early to write obituaries for European foreign policy, argue Mark Leonard and Justin Vaïsse in this opinion piece for European Voice that draws on key themes that emerge from ECFR's European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2010.

In Memoriam: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa

2011-01-10T11:06:56+00:00

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, one of ECFR's founding members, died in December. Thomas Klau and Mark Leonard reflect on his life and work, and invite those who knew him to send us their own messages for publication on this special web page. Read ECFR's tribute, those of other colleagues and details of a memorial service at the European University Institute here.

LeonardEASblueprint

2010-03-26T16:51:50+00:00

Building the EAS is not simply about backroom Brussels politics and bureaucratic infighting. It is about giving Europe the means to punch its weight in a changing world

The 20 year crisis security times mark leonard

2010-02-05T12:55:20+00:00

Response to the Haiti tragedy; the struggling mission in Afghanistan; the economic crisis. The west is in a '20 year crisis'.

How to deal with a more assertive China mark leonard

2010-02-04T12:47:36+00:00

Western governments need to show they are getting serious. Otherwise we will end up with another Copenhagen.

Europe must rediscover its power the guardian leonard

2009-12-01T15:41:28+00:00

The EU needs to take a good look at its relations and position in the world ? Lady Ashton is well placed to integrate its strengths.

Wall Street Journal Leondard European elections

2009-06-09T08:45:49+00:00

The next generation of EU technocrats will need to be populists as well.

Big Brother versus YouTube

2008-07-17T11:52:51+00:00

For China, the Olympics are no longer a sporting event - they are a battle to define how the country is seen by its citizens and the world.

mark leonard on china olympics boycott

2008-02-16T09:01:45+00:00

Spielberg was right to step down but governments should look at China's policies within a historical context, and have a strategy for influencing Beijing beyond the summer of 2008.

mark leonard what does china think

2008-02-11T09:08:00+00:00

China is emerging not just as an economic giant, but as a powerhouse of ideas about politics, economics and world order. Its own model of globalisation could re-shape much of the world.

PR Russia power audit

2007-11-07T04:38:15+00:00

Despite its economic strength and military might, the EU has begun to behave as if it were subordinate to an increasingly assertive Russia. Read ECFR's "Power Audit" of EU-Russia relations.

Drafting a global player

2007-10-17T09:22:00+00:00

Unless something goes badly wrong, EU leaders will agree a new treaty at this week's summit in Lisbon. This opinion piece was published by the Wall Street Journal.