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We are thrilled to inaugurate our new headquarters today with a packed room and a lively debate about #Energydiplomacy. Will Europe be able to secure affordable and clean energy and strengthen its industrial competitiveness?

We would like to thank the speakers and Maria Tadeo for a great panel discussion. The conversation doesn't end here! If you are interested in how Europe can use its strengths and secure a resilient energy landscape, download BIG ’s latest report 👉 big-europe.eu.

We are honoured to announce the inauguration of BIG's 7-member Board today. Under the leadership of Bundesministerium der Finanzen State Secretary Heiko Thoms (Chair) and president of Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento Rita Faden (Vice-Chair), it will provide strategic guidance and formal oversight. big-europe.eu/2024-05-13-big…

📢📰Join our team! We're hiring a Head of Communications at the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics. If you have top-notch media and communication skills, apply before 21 June 👉 big-europe.eu/2024-06-03-big…

Join our team at the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics! 🌍 Are you passionate about Europe and geopolitics? 🗞️ Do you have a deep understanding of the news cycle and media dynamics? ✏️ Apply before 21 June 🗓️ ⤵️

The #Paris2024 Games kick off amid tense geopolitics, but sports have always intertwined with state power. Fábio Colombo & Matěj Prásǐl explore how the geopolitics of sports can serve to foster unity, project power, but also channel rivalries. 🌍🏅 big-europe.eu/publications/2…

Acknowledging new economic security risks, the EU is drafting a toolbox of instruments. But we also need a strategic debate about the goals and reasons. Tomorrow, we will host a conversation between Hans Kribbe, Amb. Michael Clauß, Bruno Maçães Nathalie Errard Jim Cloos & Paola Tamma.

If economic statecraft is the use of economic policy for security goals, then what are those goals for Europe? In this new Brussels Institute for Geopolitics essay I explore some possibilities, drawing on the strategic narratives of W. Wilson, G. Bush and H. Kissinger. We learn from the best.

🇺🇸🗳️ As the world holds its breath, we present two essays on the next US president and Europe. Hans Kribbe draws lessons from Trump's first term and Damir Marusic decrypts Harris's potential direction. Discover the diptych here: big-europe.eu/publications/2…

The wait is over but is Europe ready for Trump 2.0? Resharing our editorial by Hans Kribbe Damir Marusic looking at what Europe got wrong during his first term and how it can do better. ⤵️ big-europe.eu/publications/2…

📺Tune in tomorrow (28 November) at 15:30 CET to the Livestream with Josep Borrell Fontelles in coversation with our Director, Luuk van Middelaar. It will be Mr. Borrell’s last public appearance before bowing out. ➡️ Follow LIVE: youtube.com/live/IVlhS3nWQ…

What do we mean by the Return of History to the Present? 🤔 Our Director, Luuk van Middelaar breaks it down in this piece looking at how Europe can regain its sense of history from three perspectives and anchor itself in this new geopolitical era. big-europe.eu/publications/2…

With one week until Inauguration Day, is Europe better prepared for Trump 2.0? Find out which European leaders cracked Trump’s code the first time around in this excerpt from Hans Kribbe's book, The Strongmen: European Encounters with Sovereign Power. big-europe.eu/publications/2…

20 January: as the Wheel of Fortune starts spinning faster, it's time to re-engage with history as a scholarly discipline. My essay for Brussels Institute for Geopolitics. big-europe.eu/publications/2…

“Governments need to do the heavy lifting. Any qualitative leap [on defence] can only come from increasing national budgets and optimizing their use.” 📖Read the full interview with Claude-France Arnould 👇 big-europe.eu/publications/2…

Trump will get his peace deal, one way or another, with meaningful security guarantees or without. But the broader and sobering strategic implications of Trump’s revolution are still poorly understood, as I argue in this Brussels Institute for Geopolitics piece👇big-europe.eu/publications/2…

The Trump supernova that Europe didn’t see coming.  My editorial for Brussels Institute for Geopolitics on how Europe was blindsided to structural shifts in US domestic and foreign policy – in the making since long before this MAGA-inspired conflagration. big-europe.eu/publications/2…

In this brilliant essay, ‘The EU’s Mackinder Moment’ BIG guest writer Professor Mark Gilbert at Bologna’s Johns Hopkins SAIS, re-visits the work of the ‘father of geopolitics’ to understand its significance to contemporary Europe. 📕 big-europe.eu/publications/2…

'We need not just the unpowerment of our rivals, but the empowerment of ourselves.' BIG’s Hans Kribbe spoke at today’s EU Institute for Security Studies Polish presidency of the Council of the EU seminar on how the EU can limit Russia’s influence — urging a clearer, stronger European offer in a geopolitical world.