The European Council on Foreign Relations

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How can the European Union and its member countries increase their global reach? How should the EU pursue its interests and values through trade and aid policies? Can European civilian and military capabilities be deployed with greater effectiveness in the world?s conflict zones?

Publications

How to stop the demilitarisation of Europe

08 Nov 11

Building sustainable EU military power at a time of defence cuts

The European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2010

30 Mar 11

A survey of 80 European foreign policy components over 6 issues

Towards a post-American Europe: A Power Audit of EU-US Relations by Nick Witney & Jeremy Shapiro

02 Nov 09

Europe has the US president it wished for, but does Barack Obama have the strong transatlantic partner he wants?

Can the EU rebuild failing states? A review of Europe?s civilian capacities.

16 Oct 09

Have broken promises and treating Afghanistan, DR Congo and Iraq like Bosnia left the EU without the capacity to prevent fragile states from becoming failing states?

Re-wiring the US-EU relationship

20 Jan 09
With the pivotal change of leadership in Washington, the US and the EU may have an ideal moment to strengthen the US-EU institutional bond.

Re-energising Europe's Security and Defence Policy

29 Jul 08
European governments cannot afford to move at the speed of the slowest, argues Nick Witney, and should push for a 'multi-speed' Europe on ESDP

New World Order: The balance of soft power and the rise of herbivorous powers

24 Oct 07
A global public opinion survey shows that there is growing public support for a more multi-polar world, and 35% of world citizens would like to see the EU's influence to grow.

Commentary

Commander Obama

Undoing Bush's foreign policy legacy will be a huge challenge for Obama. But what can Europe do to help?

Destination Washington

The G-20 Summit this week-end in Washington offers a good opportunity to reflect on what Europe wants to achieve, both internally and externally.

Czechs raise the stakes on Lisbon

Andrew Duff - 10 Nov 08
All being well with Europe, the Treaty of Lisbon would now have been ready to come into force on 1 January. But all is not well.

The global financial crisis: opportunities for change

Andre Wilkens - 10 Nov 08
The world's severe economic downturn must be addressed alongside and not to the exclusion of other problems, says ECFR Council Member Andre Wilkens.

What now?

Once he enters office, President Obama will bring a profound challenge to the comfortable introversion of many EU governments.

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In the Press

France Culture
09 Feb 12

Justin Vaïsse gives an Analysis of US presidential elections

Spravy Pravda
09 Feb 12

Spravy Pravda reviews ECFR's European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2012

Svenska Dagbladet
09 Feb 12

ECFR's Scorecard 2012 appears in a leader article by Svenska Dagbladet

Bloomberg TV
08 Feb 12

Ulrike Guérot is interviewed about Angela Merkel's handling of the eurocrisis

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