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From Boom to Bust: How can Germany Restart its Economic Engine?

This event will not be livestreamed. The German economy contracted in 2023, due to persistent inflation, high energy prices and weak foreign demand. Industrial activity, household income and government expenditure all declined while gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 0.3%. Current forecasts indicate marginal growth in the short to medium term. In addition, the unwinding […]

Vital Questions on the Largest Enlargement in the EU

1. You led your country to join the European Union 20 years ago, known as the Big Bang enlargement. What are the most important benefits of membership for your country? In which areas does your country still lag behind the older Member States? Mikuláš Dzurinda, former Prime Minister of Slovakia: The past two decades have […]

April 2024

April was all about our 7Ds for Sustainability project! Building on our efforts to contribute to future-proofing EU policy in various areas, this month we published our 7Ds In Depth focusing on debt, decarbonisation, defence, democracy, demography, de-risking globalisation, and digitalisation. Head to our website to read all 7 papers here!

Populism and its Impact on Conservative & Centre-Right Politics – Thinking Talks Ep.15 with Tim Bale

Migration Update April 2024

Welcome to the Migration Update April 2024. This curated news selection brings together many of the most important developments in the migration policy area over the last month, including recent ones tied to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The purpose of these news summaries is to provide a factual base for migration debates within the […]

Russian Economy: Still Standing, But Stuck

This analysis is a follow-up to the comprehensive report “From Bad to Worse: The Continuing Effects of Sanctions on Russia”, which was published by the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies in June 2023. We continue to analyse the nuanced effects of Western sanctions against Russia two years since the beginning of Putin’s full-scale invasion […]

EU Policy. Rapid militarisation jeopardising climate, claim NGOs

Ionela Maria Ciolan, research officer on security and defence at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, told Euronews that investment in the defence industry and arms production “shouldn’t be hindered” by climate change considerations.

Amelia Andersdotter

Amelia Andersdotter is Senior Advisor at Swedish cloud-service provider Safespring. Previously she was the Senior Standards Manager at Sky Group, ensuring the strong representation of operator interests in WLAN standardisation, especially with regard to energy saving in home networks. Amelia was a Member of the European Parliament in the seventh legislature and a member of […]

Milda Kaklauskaitė

Milda Kaklauskaitė is a Senior Manager at the European Cyber Security Organisation. Her fields of expertise cover support for small and medium-sized enterprises, market deployment, cybersecurity investments and international cooperation. She has previous professional experience at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and in the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania. Milda holds a […]

Roberta N. Haar

Roberta N. Haar is Professor of Foreign Policy Analysis and Transatlantic Relations at Maastricht University within the field of International Relations. She teaches courses in International Relations, in particular foreign policy. She is the Principal Investigator for the REMIT EU Horizon Project, for which the EU Commission and the UK awarded €3 million over four […]

Horst Heitz

Horst Heitz is Secretary-General and Special Representative for SMEs of the Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE). In this capacity, he joined the Steering Committee of SME Connect (SMEC) in 2017 and was appointed chairman in the same year. Since 2012, Horst Heitz has been Executive Director of the SME Europe of the EPP (SMEE). Additionally, […]

Daniela Vono de Vilhena

Daniela Vono de Vilhena is Deputy Executive Secretary of Population Europe in Berlin, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. She has previously been a postdoctoral researcher at the Comparative Life Course and Inequality Research Centre at the European University Institute, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Longitudinal Educational Research at the […]

Anna Matysiak

Anna Matysiak is Associate Professor and head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Labor Market and Family Dynamics, Warsaw. Her expertise covers family dynamics and men’s and women’s labour market outcomes. She is Principal Investigator for the European Research Council project Globalisation- and Technology-Driven Labour Market Change and Fertility, and a national leader of the Horizon […]

Anna Kurowska

Anna Kurowska is an Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw and serves as vice-head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Labor Market and Family Dynamics. Currently, she is leading two research projects funded by the National Science Centre in Poland: one on the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for the lives of working families; the […]

Tado Jurić

Tado Jurić is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb and in the Department of Demography of the Faculty of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb. He received his Ph.D. from the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany. His main research areas are migration from Croatia and southeastern Europe, […]

Arnstein Aassve

Arnstein Aassve is a Professor at Bocconi University. Having previously received two European Research Council grants, he is currently leading the Horizon Europe project, FutuRes: Towards a Resilient Future of Europe, which focuses on education, employment and health in an era of ageing. His publications span political science, sociology, economics, demography, econometrics, and global and […]

Nicolai Von Ondarza

Nicolai Von Ondarza is the head of the EU/Europe Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). Since 2013 he has organised the British–German Outlook Group, a yearly exchange between the SWP, Chatham House, the German Federal Foreign Office and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Previously he held various […]

Adérito Vicente

Adérito Vicente is a nuclear policy scholar who holds a Ph.D. in Political and SocialSciences from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Currently a NonResident Fellow at the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation and an External Researcherat the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, he has held academic positions atJames Madison University, the James Martin […]

Christian Mölling

Christian Mölling is the Research Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), and heads the Security and Defence Programme. For more than two decades, he has been researching and publishing on geopolitics, security and strategy with a special focus on defence, armament, industries and technology. Christian advises top level stakeholders in German ministries […]

Alessandro Marrone

Alessandro Marrone is Head of Defence Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), where he manages research projects and publications related to European and transatlantic security as well as to Italy’s defence policy. Since 2018 he is also Professor at the Istituto Superiore di Stato Maggiore Interforze of the Italian Ministry of Defence, after four […]

Paola Tessari

Paola Tessari is Senior Researcher in the Security Programme at IAI – Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome), where she leads EU-projects on non-conventional threats, with a focus on CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) and critical infrastructures protection. Since March 2022, she has also been involved in IAI’s activities in the framework of the EU Non-proliferation […]