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Petra Gombalová Kyslingerová, Head of Division, Eastern Partnership, Regional Cooperation & OSCE, EEAS Pierre Vimont, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe; former Secretary General, European External Action Service; former Ambassador of France to the United States Chaired by Nicu Popescu, Director, Wider Europe Programme, ECFR In recent years there have been increasing calls on the EU to act more geopolitically in its Eastern neighbourhood. What policy changes do the EU and its member states need to envisage if the EU is to act more geopolitically and increase its influence in the Eastern neighbo...

The vaccine has not yet been approved by Europe's medicines agency but orders are piling in.

The vaccine has not yet been approved by Europe's medicines agency but orders are piling in.

2010: EU's new diplomacy in search of old élan? First EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana (l) with Russian president Vladimir Putin in 2003 (Photo: ec.europa.eu) Brussels, 28. Dec 2020, 07:37 The EU foreign service has changed from a man with a phone to "a very large ship" in the past 10 years, for Pierre Vimont - one of its quintessential insiders. But EU diplomacy needs to rediscover its former élan, Vimont said. Read and decide Get instant access to all articles — and 20 years of archives. 14-day free trial. Choose your plan Our exclusive news stories and investigation...

Does Brexit free Europe to seek closer union? Posted : 2020-12-25 14:31 Updated : 2020-12-25 14:31 European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters, where Brexit talks took place, in Brussels, Belgium, December 24, 2020. REUTERS-Yonhap British politicians often speak of Brexit as an opportunity to escape Brussels' shackles, but does the departure also free Europe to go its own way? London's departure strips the bloc of its second largest economy after Germany's, and of France's only peer as a nuclear-armed European military power. But it also removes the biggest sc...