At a time of change across the Atlantic and within Europe, especially with the ongoing Brexit negotiations, it is essential that Germany and the United Kingdom prevent divergences from growing.
On 18th March 2019, ELN Policy Fellow Dr Katarzyna Kubiak took part in a closed-door meeting of the Security and Defense Policy Working Group of the German Social Democratic Party in Berlin. Katarzyna briefed German MPs on the INF Treaty.
The culmination of the yearlong INF drama, beset with mutual accusations, now places Europeans under enormous pressure to address the ensuing security challenges.
On November 21-23, ELN Policy Fellows Alice Billon-Galland and Katarzyna Kubiak participated in the 2018 Weimar Young Perspectives at Genshagen Castle, near Berlin.
There have been many misconceptions around the European Intervention Initiative (E2I), launched in 2017. Amid a promising start, sticking points are mostly tests for Franco-German cooperation. Read ELN Policy Fellow Alice Billon-Galland’s conclusions in her latest piece for the Berlin Policy Journal.
ELN Policy Fellow Alice Billon-Galland was quoted in the Washington Post discussing the weak position of Europe’s core leadership after Angela Merkel’s decision to step down as party leader.