Policy Watch

Policy Watch

U.S. Emerges as Key Diesel Supplier to Europe Amidst Shifting Dynamics in Global Energy Trade

In a strategic shift, the U.S. supplies Europe's rising diesel demand amid efforts to reduce reliance on Russian fuel. Imports reach a 2018...

Policy Watch

European Concerns: Battling ‘Atmospheric Jihadism

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin denounced Thursday in Luxembourg a “naivety” within European institutions in the face of an “atmospheric jihadism” which “allows...

Policy Watch

G7 AI Principles: Public Feedback Gathering

The Commission has launched a stakeholder survey ondraftInternational Guiding Principles for organisations developing advanced AI systems, which have been agreed by G7 ministers...

Policy Watch

Gaza siege: Borrell urges Israel to respect international law

Michel Borrell, the head of European diplomacy, on Tuesday called on Israel to respect international law. “Israel has the right to defend itself,...

Awareness

Awareness

Paris Summit: Boosting Atom Power Worldwide

Around fifteen ministers are meeting in Paris on Thursday and Friday for an international conference, under the aegis of the French government and the OECD, with a view to accelerating...

Public Diplomacy

Public Diplomacy

Orban’s Engagement With Belarus: Hungary’s Troubling Role

Hungary continues its race alone towards a diplomacy differentiated from that led by the EU. It is to Belarus that Orban stretches out...

Public Diplomacy

EU Diplomat’s Visit To Israel Rejected

Tensions have escalated between Israel and the EU’s foreign minister, following the latter’s criticism of Israeli settlement building and the demolition of Palestinian...

Public Diplomacy

Eurozapping: The European Commission Puts Pressure On Spain

In Spain, European funds are conditional on pension reform. The Spaniards may have demonstrated, they already have to work until they are 66...

Public Diplomacy

The European Union Launches The 18th Edition of The “Samir Kassir Prize For Press Freedom

The prize, awarded since 2006 by the European Union, pays tribute to the Lebanese journalist and writer Samir Kassir, who was assassinated in...

Politics Monitor

Politics Monitor

“More than 740,000 American jobs depend on French investments”

While being very cautious, Hector R. Brown, the new United States consul in Bordeaux who succeeded Alexander Lipscomb at the beginning of the year, has a sense of the formula....

Media Statements

Emmanuel Macron’s Foreign Policy Priorities: Conference Highlights

French diplomacy will be in the spotlight of the presidential agenda this Monday. Emmanuel Macron will indeed explain to the French ambassadors gathered...

Media Statements

Sahel’s Last Ally: Niger’s Westward Connection

3rd coup in the Sahel since 2020, after Mali and Burkina Faso, and 4th in West Africa with Guinea, the overthrow of President...

Media Statements

Resurgent Hawks: ECB’s Power Restored

Initially created on the model of the Bundesbank, the ECB had evolved profoundly under Mario Draghi, but German influences have partially taken over....

Media Statements

Cuba Condemns European Parliament’s Resolution

The Cuban Parliament on Wednesday strongly denounced a resolution passed by the European Parliament that criticizes the human rights situation on the island...

Media Statements

Cultural Exchange: Chrysoula Zacharopoulou Joins Canal France International

Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, in charge of development, the Francophonie, and international partnerships, opens...

Media Statements

Orban urges EU to maintain ties with Russia

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban promised on Saturday, February 18, 2023, to maintain ties with Moscow and urged other European countries to do...

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