As the EU is asserting itself as an Indo-Pacific player by working with existing multilateral groupings, it maintains a degree of strategic ambiguity, especially regarding China. While this ambiguous stance may limit cooperation with the Quad on traditional security issues, the Quad and the EU hold the potential to jointly deliver on several, cross-domain transnational issues.
The proposed CBAM policy has been met with vehement opposition from the BRICS countries and major exporters. The EU must engage with its external trade partners to ensure it meets its emissions commitments by 2050. The question is how?
Holding a near monopoly in semiconductor manufacturing, Taiwan should seek to sustain the global supply chain and maintain its “silicon shield”. In particular by expanding its outreach abroad through cooperation with other partners such as the EU.
2020 has presented the planet with a globalised crisis that has put countries to the test worldwide. In these difficult
The 47th G7 Summit was held in Cornwall (UK) from 11-13 June 2021. After a year of unprecedented uncertainty and tragedy due to the Covid-19 pandemic, G7 leaders met to discuss joint actions to fight the spread of the pandemic collectively, stop climate change and help economies recover. They pledged to make 2021 the year of multilateralism’s renaissance.
The Indo-Pacific, lacking all-encompassing security structures such as an “Asian NATO”, is facing rising tensions, including geopolitical rivalries, contested territories and territorial waters. To face this new environment and become strategically autonomous, the Council of the European Union published its EU Strategy for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
The Investment Court System (ICS) in the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement is interesting, but does it solve existing issues around international investment arbitration?
The virtual meeting between the leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) that took place on the 12th of March
With the 2021 Presidential Election, Mongolian citizens elected their new Head of State on 9th June 2021, amidst the country’s first serious Covid-19 outbreak. Currently facing some challenging times, we assess the impact of the country’s elections and look ahead at developments in EU-Mongolia relations.