Foreign Policy in Europe’s Borderlands

Europe is in flux. The union is racing toward European Parliament elections, and public debates are increasingly dominated by inward-leaning discussions over Europe’s future, not to mention Brexit.  

The risk is that EU foreign policy will take a back seat, just when it is all the more necessary. From Ukraine to Algeria and from Armenia to the Western Balkans, new political players who want to initiate change are emerging across Europe’s Eastern and Southern neighbourhoods. Any paralysis on EU foreign policy regarding the union’s borderlands would be strategically and geopolitically shortsighted.  

This event will be held in the framework of the Horizon 2020 EU-LISTCO project and will feature remarks by Heather Grabbe, director of the Open Society European Policy Institute, Pol Morillas, director of the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), and Thomas Risse, professor of International Relations at the Freie Universität Berlin. Judy Dempsey, nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor-in-chief of the Strategic Europe blog, will moderate.  

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