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Study-Launch
“From Neutral Pillar to Strategic Partner. Towards a Comprehensive EU-North Africa Policy in the Age of a Rising China”
Relations between the European Union and North Africa are at a turning point in the age of a rising China. Even before the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the resulting breakdown in trade relations between the EU and Russia, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had announced the need to strengthen cooperation between the EU and Africa, and North Africa in particular. But not only the EU is strongly committed to deepen cooperation with Africa. China's relations with Africa and North Africa are strengthening. These are based primarily on Beijing's financial commitment and “investment appetite” in Africa, mainly North Africa.
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Quo vadis, Europa?
Wie geht es weiter nach der Konferenz zur Zukunft Europas?
Gemeinsame Visionen und konkrete Vorstellungen für Europa in einem EU-weiten Bürgerbeteiligungsprozess zu entwickeln klingt für jeden Bürger sehr reizvoll. Dieses Projekt „Konferenz zur Zukunft Europas“ wurde u.a. auch während deutschen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft mitgestaltet und mit pandemiebedingten Verzögerungen startete die Europäischen Kommission die Europäischen Bürgerforen. Derartige Konferenzen, die die Zukunft Europas in den Mittelpunkt rücken, zeigen sehr deutlich, dass sie mehr und mehr zu einer Revitalisierung der Debatten über Europa führen. Die Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, für die die Zukunft Europas eine Daueraufgabe ist, hat mehrere Europadialoge im Frühjahr 2022, in Anlehnung an die „EU-Zukunftskonferenz“ ermöglicht. Letztere bat einmal mehr den Anlass, christlich-demokratischen Positionen in den europäischen Diskurs einzubringen und für eine handlungsfähige, nach subsidiären Prinzipien und stabilitätsorientierten Kriterien strukturierte EU zu werben.
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The Morning After - France has voted
Online Event
The European Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung is very pleased to invite you to the next session of our event format "The Morning After". In this online format, we are monitoring the Parliamentary and/or Presidential Elections in European states and discuss the results with our KAS colleagues in the respective country. Furthermore, we try to assess the implications the result could have for the country’s relationship with the European Union. This session will focus on France, where the second round of the Parlamentary Elections is scheduled for 19 June 2022.
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EU-Serbia Relations between Accession and Alienation
KAS Europe Talks
The European Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung is very pleased to invite you to the next session of our event format "KAS Europe Talks". In this format, the European Office regularly organizes a discussion with the Director of another KAS Office, focusing on recent developments in the respective countries or regions as well as on the status quo of relations with the European Union. This event takes a closer look at Serbia and its relations with the EU after more than eight years of accession negotiations.
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Rethinking Global Trade – Where is it heading?
Virtual Debate of the KAS-BDI Working Group Trade
In the beginning of the year, many economists were cautiously optimistic towards global trade growth. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions have put global supply chains under increased strain, just as they were beginning to recover from the effects of the global pandemic. The resulting current rise in inflation, initially considered to be temporary by many Central Banks, is now expected to be a more long-term phenomenon due to the new geopolitical reality.
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The Dutch government between ambitious domestic plans and challenging developments abroad
Online Event
Almost exactly 100 days ago, the new government of the Netherlands was sworn in and concluded the longest negotiation period in the history of the country. This is all the more astonishing, since the incumbent four party coalition reaching from conservative liberal Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD) over social liberal Democraten 66 (D66) and Christen-Democratisch Appèl (CDA) to the Calvinist ChristenUnie (CU) has already led the country during the last legislative term. Nevertheless, the old and new government set out an ambitious plan to make the Netherlands climate-neutral, to ensure affordable housing in all parts of the country and to play a constructive role on the European stage, where the country has often expressed outspoken views, which regularly weren’t shared by the Southern EU member states.
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Geopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe
Conference
On behalf of the European Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Andrássy University Budapest, we are honoured to invite you to participate in our international conference "Geopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe".
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Think Digital! AI Act Status Update
How to balance potential risks and benefits of industrial AI in horizontal regulation
"Think Digital!" 2022 is a project by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Electro and Digital Industry Association (ZVEI). In a series of high-level political events in Brussels throughout 2022, we will bring together representatives from the European Institutions, think tanks, research institutions, civil society, and the private sector.
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The Strategic Compass – A true milestone in European Defence and Security Policy?
Online Event
"Europe is in danger" expressed the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy a few weeks ago. The famous statement of Josep Borrell may have sounded exaggerated to some ears but against the backdrop of a war at the gates of the European Union and the uncertain geopolitical future – also with a view to China and the global balance of power – the statement seems now more accurate than ever.
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Europe's greatest achievement – The Single Market as a way towards Post-Pandemic-Recovery?
Virtual Debate of the KAS-BDI Working Group Single Market 2022
In April 2020, one month after many European countries closed their borders to stop the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic, a letter, signed by 23 CEOs of leading European companies, called on EU leaders to turn the Single Market into the continents central instrument for economic recovery. Faced with the risk of rising unilateral action by EU member states, the industrial leaders argued that the response should be more, not less Europe.