International partnerships are a staple of EU foreign policy. Yet the European Union’s approach to such arrangements has long been somewhat counterintuitive: instead of conditioning who it works with ...

The deterioration of the security situation on Europe’s periphery in the last decade has raised expectations about the European Union’s contribution to crisis prevention, stabilisation, and ...

We live in an era of increasing strategic competition between states and complex security threats, where power politics have returned to stay. This is not the world we Europeans have chosen — it is ...

The Strategic Compass provides guidance and a common vision for strengthening the EU's security and defence policy by 2030. The Council approved the Strategic Compass on 22 March 2022, just a few ...

This event has been postponed until further notice. Please check back on our website for more information soon. In October last year the EU’s President Charles Michel declared, “2022 will be the year ...

Today the Council has formally approved the Strategic Compass, at a time when we witness the return of war in Europe. The Compass gives the European Union an ambitious plan of action for strengthening ...

Demonstrators hold placards reading "Putin, stop the war" as well as European Union and Ukrainian flags during a protest against Russia's military operation in Ukraine, in front of the European ...

Please join CSIS for a conversation with Vice Admiral Hervé Bléjean, Director General of the EU Military Staff. As the European Union prepares to release a new Strategic Compass outlining the bloc’s ...