Experts & Staff

Teresa Coratella

Programme Manager, ECFR Rome

Areas of expertise

Italian foreign policy, Poland in Europe, Visegrád Group, geopolitics and International Relations

Languages

Italian, Polish, English and basic French

Biography

Teresa Coratella is the programme manager at the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Rome office.

Coratella joined ECFR as an advocacy and communications officer in February 2011. Previously, she worked for the Warsaw-based Institute for Eastern Studies as programme assistant in charge of partnerships and development. She contributed to the organization of high level international conferences on foreign policy issues in several European capitals. She holds an MA in European Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe, Natolin Campus, with a focus on the EU as a regional actor. She holds a BA in International Relations and wrote her final dissertation on Polish foreign policy between 1989 and 2004. Coratella is a member of WIIS(Women in International Security). She is a native speaker of Italian and Polish and speaks fluent English and basic French.

Draghi race: Italian voters and Russia’s war on Ukraine

Draghi’s approach to Italian and EU policy on Russia is at odds with the public mood in Italy. He will need to act quickly if he is to convince voters at home to support his foreign policy choices.

Italy’s challenging divorce from Russia

Russia’s war on Ukraine has prompted urgent changes in Italian foreign policy. Rome’s efforts to distance itself from Moscow are creating major challenges at home.

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Articles

Draghi race: Italian voters and Russia’s war on Ukraine

Draghi’s approach to Italian and EU policy on Russia is at odds with the public mood in Italy. He will need to act quickly if he is to convince voters at home to support his foreign policy choices.

Italy’s challenging divorce from Russia

Russia’s war on Ukraine has prompted urgent changes in Italian foreign policy. Rome’s efforts to distance itself from Moscow are creating major challenges at home.

Views from the capitals on COP26

COP26 concluded on 13 November with the Glasgow Climate Pact, an agreement that sets out the next phase of the fight against climate change. The pact may have disappointed many, but views of it vary a great deal depending on where you sit. Below, experts from three of ECFR’s offices – in Rome, Paris, and Berlin – discuss the implications of the deal.

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