News from the Jacques Delors Centre

Ronja Kempin from the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik and Nicole Koenig from the Jacques Delors Centre discuss whether the Strategic Compass heralds a new era in EU security policy.

In an interview in Deutschlandfunk for "Europa heute", Deputy Director Nicole Koenig spoke about the Strategic Compass and the enduring gap between ambition and reality in EU security policy. 

Lucas Rasche and Nicole Koenig explain the crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border from a migration and geopolitical point of view.

In our series of briefs and podcast episodes "Wahl spezial" we explore the challenges for the new German government in five core fields of European policy: migration policy, rule of law, foreign and security policy, industrial policy, and economic governance. 

The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan was another wake-up call for the EU, says Nicole Koenig, the only question is whether Europe is really waking up now. 

In this episode of our podcast series EU to go, Thu Nguyen and Nicole Koenig talk about the German Presidency in the Pandemic Paradox.

In an article by the press agency AFP, Nicole Koenig predicts a change of tone in transatlantic relations.

"A geopolitically assertive EU is needed more than ever“ argue Nicole Koenig and Nils Redeker in their article on Euractiv.com. The State of the Union speech provides a momentum for the EU to sketch its power agenda.

The ongoing health and economic crisis is tricky for NATO as “there will be less defense spending” states Nicole Koenig.