After one year of war in Ukraine, it is evident that European countries must significantly increase their defence spending and rebuild their capabilities. Whilst it is true that Germany has taken some independent steps forward regarding defence, this is not detrimental to collective European defence efforts. In fact, greater Franco-German cooperation (and a more defence-minded...Read More
Dr Karine de Vergeron, head of the GPI Europe Programme, took part to the workshop “EU strategic autonomy in a contested security order” organised by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and CEPS in Brussels from 3rd to 5th May. Dr de Vergeron also just published the following expert commentary on Franco-German cooperation in defence and EU...Read More
Dr Karine de Vergeron, Associate Director and Head of GPI Europe at the Global Policy Institute, participated in the roundtable workshop “Mega-Regions and European Security”, organised by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, CEPS and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy on the 7th November in Vienna at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s Regional Office for International Cooperation.Read More
Karine Lisbonne de Vergeron, associate director and head of the Europe Programme of the GPI delivered the keynote address « Global Challenges for EU Cultural Diplomacy » as part of the international symposium PD-PCF UC Reactik entitled « Cultural Diplomacy in the 21st century: Theorising global, supranational, national and regional intersections », which she co-organised....Read More
The Global Policy Institute is very happy to announce the release of the Update of the 2015 Perceptions Study funded by the EU Foreign Partnership Instrument and edited by PD-PCF and PPMI to which GPI Associate Director and Head of the Europe Programme, Dr Karine de Vergeron, contributed as Team Leader for the Report on...Read More
The most recent India-EU summits, held on 15 July 2020 and 8 May 2021, significantly enhanced the strategic dimension of the bilateral relationship. India was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the European Union when representatives of the then EEC met with several Indian diplomats based in Europe in 1961. But...Read More
GPI Associate Director and Head of the Europe Programme, Dr Karine Lisbonne-Szais de Vergeron, has been nominated to the Scientific Council of the Robert Schuman Foundation, a leading European research and studies centre with offices in Paris and Brussels: https://www.robert-schuman.eu/en/scientific-council The Global Policy Institute congratulates Dr Lisbonne-Szais de Vergeron for this great achievement.Read More
Dr Karine de Vergeron, Associate Director & Head of Europe of the GPI, took part to the Virtual Conference Panel “External Perceptions of the EU in Times of Global Crises: Continuity and Change?” organised by COST ENTER, the European Network for Cooperation in Science and Technology and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand with...Read More
We are pleased to announce the publication of the new Routledge volume Changing Perceptions of the EU at Times of Brexit, to which Dr Karine Lisbonne de Vergeron, Associate Director of the GPI and Head of its Europe Programme, contributed a chapter entitled “A Shift of Strategic Interests: Indian Elite Perceptions of Europe after Brexit”...Read More
Dr Karine Lisbonne de Vergeron, Associate Director and Head of the GPI Europe Programme at the GPI, was invited to contribute to a new IIEA report on “The Multilateral Order Post-Covid: Expert Voices”. Other leading international affairs experts that have contributed to this timely report include Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs...Read More
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