Happy Holidays from Strategic Europe!
At the end of a tumultuous year, Strategic Europe takes a moment to thank our readers for your inspiration, support, and engagement.
At the end of a tumultuous year, Strategic Europe takes a moment to thank our readers for your inspiration, support, and engagement.
Dear loyal, recent, and new readers:
We are going to take a break after a tumultuous year. Foreign policy has never been so challenging. Predictability is precious and rare. One thing is certain: it is our huge gratitude to all our readers for your contributions in print and across social media and for supporting and engaging with us in such an inspiring way. We wish you all very peaceful holidays and a great start to 2015. We resume our Strategic Europe blog on January 5, 2015.
Jan Techau and Judy Dempsey
Europe’s digital future cannot hinge on Washington’s whims or the outcome of elections every four years. To achieve a level of technological autonomy, Europe needs targeted investments and responsible innovation in key sectors.
Through diplomatic skill and strategy, French President Macron is making a recovery after a series of domestic and international setbacks. He now has a unique opportunity to expand Europe’s margins of maneuver on the global stage.
Moscow has been dialing up its hybrid attacks on European democracies. Are information operations the most effective tool in Russia’s arsenal—and how can European governments and societies fight back?
The EU has vowed to be more receptive of its partners’ needs and concerns. To ensure the “listening to others” mantra does not become a performative quick fix, the union must clarify how this commitment fits with its desire to exert geopolitical power.
Donald Trump’s victory underscores the need for the EU to rethink its political economic model. As it adapts its policies, the union must recognize the trade-offs between its quest for economic security and its global identity as a champion of the rules-based order.