My piece on prospects of why normalization between #Turkey 🇹🇷 and #Armenia 🇦🇲 — and Erdogan meeting Pashinyan— is so important ⬇️⬇️⬇️

What would Europeans have to do to support Ukraine in the long-war? My colleagues Gustav C. Gressel DUMOULIN Marie Piotr Buras and I try to scope it out: ecfr.eu/publication/su…

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Like it or not, a democratic national security strategy belongs, and should belong, to the elected poitical leadership, by me .

Less than an hour to go until this discussion on the different levels of Europe's energy trilemma - local, national and European. Come and join us!

In which we explore the soft bigotry of low expectations in US-German relations.

#ecfr22 Ivan Krastev: “Weakness is not a good starting point for any policy.”

#ecfr22 Ivan Krastev quoting Thomas Bagger: “The End of History was an American book and a German reality.”

#ecfr22 Sergey Radchenko: Russia’s clear calculation is that there is going to be an economic crisis in the West and that will fuel populist tensions and weaken Western resolve.

#ecfr22 Alex Soros: to appeal to the global south, the war in Ukraine should have been framed as an anti colonial struggle and as a battle for freedom.

ECFR is hiring someone to study the geopolitics of economic. Or maybe it is the economics of geopolitics. If you can explain the difference, you are probably perfect for the job, and also probably very annoying at cocktail parties. ecfr.jacando.io/career/job/8ff…

#ecfr22 Norbert Rottgen: there is a great danger in embarking on an EU enlargement process when we know that the result will be disappointment.

#ecfr22 Norbert Rottgen worries that the EU is using the principles of the previous “convergent” enlargements for what should be a geopolitical enlargement (to Ukraine). It won’t work in his view.

#ecfr22 Alexander Schallenberg Austrian foreign minister: Europe is losing the Western Balkans.