GAIA-X: an opportunity for the European digital sovereignty?
In the debate over European digital sovereignty which is still unsolved, GAIA-X features opportunities, challenges, and discrepancies.
Future of Europe
Expectations, competences and power: understanding the dynamics of EU institutions in tackling the COVID-19 crisis and setting the tone for the Conference on the Future of Europe
It is vital to understand all its power dynamics before judging the EU’s performance while dealing with these multidimensional crises.
Living with COVID-19: The thinking behind Spain’s lockdown exit plan
Spain’s lockdown exit plan is based on four pillars: proper data and healthcare capacities, geographical asymmetry, a two-way street with different speeds, and subsidiarity and co-responsibility.
EU-Japan cooperation on defence capabilities: possibilities?
EU and Japan have interest in developing defence capabilities and research but these challenges and cooperation is conditioned by a shifting geopolitical landscape.
Life beyond multilateralism? COVID-19, European strategic autonomy and Spanish foreign policy
COVID-19 raises questions whether international politics will be characterised by a renewal of multilateralism or an aggravation of great power competition.
The influence –and weakness– of Spain’s European policy in the face of the pandemic: from a diagnostic to proposals and recommendations
This paper analyses the position of Spain in the EU’s management of the present health and economic crisis.
Rules-based connectivity, maritime security and EU-Japan cooperation in the Indian Ocean
This paper puts forward a number of specific proposals to further EU-Japan maritime security cooperation in the Indian Ocean region.
European defence should not be the casualty of ‘the Great Lockdown’
Defence should be included in the critical sectors as the EU renegotiates its next long-term budget that will seek to boost recovery.
Thirty years of EU-Mediterranean Policies (1989-2019): an assessment
This working paper seeks to present a critical overview of the EU’s latest major Mediterranean policies, analysing the context, the text and the pretext of each of these policies.
Will European defence survive Coronavirus?
Given the magnitude of the Coronavirus and its potential impact on the world economy, we may have to expect budget cuts.
Iran, Libya, Turkey, and COVID-19: a ‘geopolitical Commission’ put to the test
The outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has put the new ‘geopolitical Commission’ under another stress test.