To restore its credibility, particularly in its pursuit of EU and NATO membership, Kosovo needs to demonstrate full alignment with Western policies. Sustained Western diplomatic engagement with both Kosovo and Serbia is essential in the coming months to prevent the already precarious security situation from deteriorating further.
What will the outcome of India’s general elections mean not just for India but for the EU? Both are facing an existential moment: India as a rising power seeking its place between the ‘like-minded’ and the ‘non-like-minded’, and the EU as a normative actor obliged to adapt to an increasingly transactional international order.
Contestation dynamics have intensified in recent years, to the point they are now driving global politics. We explore the convergence of diverse challenges to the current international order and how European leaders and policymakers should navigate this new reality.
At a time of increasing fragmentation, Europe needs stronger security and defence partnerships. We argue that the EU should forge closer ties with countries around the world on key issues of common security. But for partnerships to deliver on security and defence, they must be targeted, squarely focused on output and flexible.
On 24 May, the CFI project, led by the EUISS, co-organised a panel with the European Media & Information Fund (EMIF) at the State of the Union conference, hosted by the European University Institute in Florence.
On May 17, the CFI project hosted the Countering Foreign Interference (CFI) Network meeting, bringing together the Brussels-based Community of Practice focused on tackling Foreign Information and Manipulation Interference (FIMI) within the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).
