What von der Leyen’s State of the Union says about the state of EU foreign and security policy.

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For decades, the European Union built its prosperity on a quiet assumption: that others would take care of the hard parts. The United States provided security. Russia supplied cheap energy.…

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At the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague, allies pledged to spend 5% of GDP on defence by 2035 – including 1.5% for resilience and security-related investment. Yet what counts towards this 1.5% remains un...

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Eine Studie zeigt, dass seit dem Ukraine-Krieg 135 Sicherheitsabkommen in Europa geschlossen wurden. Machen sie den Kontinent sicherer?

Europe’s defence map is being redrawn. Our new Böll EU Brief tracks over 160 defence partnerships signed since 2014 among EU countries, the UK and Ukraine – most of them after Russia’s full-scale inva...

Roderick Kefferpütz & Villy Søvndal think the time has come to lay the groundwork for the possible accession of Greenland, Iceland, and Norway.

Ex-Vizekanzler Habeck verlässt den Bundestag. Die Grünen hätten ihre neue Rolle nun gefunden, sagt er der taz. Und dann gibt er Julia Klöckner noch eins mit.

Roderick Kefferpütz & Villy Søvndal think the time has come to lay the groundwork for the possible accession of Greenland, Iceland, and Norway.

Northern EU accession is becoming a political possibility that requires attention. Bundling enlargement could help build momentum. A carefully sequenced enlargement round that includes both Nordic and...

Die nächste EU-Erweiterungsrunde dürfte den Norden betreffen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine Studie der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, die analysiert hat, warum Norwegen, Island und Grönland schon sehr bald d...

Northern EU accession is becoming a political possibility that requires attention. Bundling enlargement could help build momentum. A carefully sequenced enlargement round that includes both Nordic and...

Northern EU accession is becoming a political possibility that requires attention. Bundling enlargement could help build momentum. A carefully sequenced enlargement round that includes both Nordic and...

In a pivotal week for transatlantic trade relations, the new EU Böll Brief “Trading partners? Europe's options against Trump’s tariffs“ analyses the potential consequences of rising US tariffs on Euro...

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The European Union is not merely facing a series of overlapping crises, but the simultaneous unravelling of the geopolitical, economic, and democratic orders that have long underpinned its stability a...

Donald Trump is back in the White House and with him, a foreign policy that openly questions the sovereignty of allies, undermines democratic values, challenges European security commitments, and disr...

EU-India relations are key for the von der Leyen II European Commission, as the is also looking to expand its circle of key partners, against a backdrop of uncertainty over transatlantic relations.

The EuroPolicy civic association and the EURACTIV Slovakia portal, in cooperation with the Prague office of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, invite you to an online discussion titled Slovakia and the new l...