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A New Threat to the EU: Lawfare

Globalization emphasizes competition between states by entailing the development of new tools, thus influencing state or company behavior. Considered a tool for international regulation, the law is an essential factor in foreign policy, used to protect and promote various interests. The term (…)

Monday 22 January 2024

404 Policy Not Found: Sweden and its relation to feminist foreign policy

You know that certain situation when you are feverishly searching for something on the internet, be it an old video, a post or an article and you keep coming back to the dead end 404 error? This is exactly what happened to us when we were looking for the Swedish Government’s Feminist Foreign Policy Handbook on their official government site. Because not only is the handbook on the site of the new government that has been in office since 2022, but the Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) itself is no longer to be found.

Monday 2 October 2023

The Need for a European Defence Policy

Eurobull has previously discussed the subject of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). It is one which comes up time and time again in federalist discourse, as a commonly stated key element of a federal state. A federal state is unimaginable without a body controlling foreign and (…)

Sunday 29 November 2020

China and the EU – Why Engagement with China Requires a Unified Strategy

Faced with crisis, including the present Covid-19 pandemic, Europe realizes again how “powerless in spite of its intentions” it is. This is how Dr. Feng Zhongqing, vice president of the Beijing-based China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, describes the current situation of the (…)

Thursday 2 July 2020

A stand for true reciprocity

The participation of Finland, Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands in the next phase of PESCO – the EU’s key defence cooperation framework – should be made conditional, by the Council, upon their reciprocal support of the Next Generation EU recovery package. At this crucial turning point, (…)

Wednesday 17 June 2020

The Munich Conference: the annual meeting for international security

A summary of the first edition of the European Magnifying Glass.

Saturday 4 April 2020

The Munich Security Conference: Where is the Franco-German tandem?

THE EUROPEAN MAGNIFIYING GLASS. The 56th Munich security conference took place on the 14-16th February 2020. This year, the main topic of this annual meeting, dedicated to international security issues, was the “decline of the West.” The European Union, especially the French-German partnership (…)

Saturday 4 April 2020

Brexit and its limited impact on European security

This year’s 56th Munich Security Conference attempted to shed some light on the decline of both Europe and the Western world. At the heart of negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom is the impact of Brexit upon European security and defence, which is turning out to be (…)

Tuesday 31 March 2020

Debate: On Iran, Europe Also Faces a Choice (Part II)

On January 23rd, 2020, the hands of the Doomsday Clock inched forward once again, this time stopping at only 100 seconds before midnight. The clock, which represents the likelihood of an imminent global catastrophe, is closer to midnight than ever before in its 73-year history. The most (…)

Thursday 20 February 2020

Debate: On Iran, Europe Also Faces a Choice (Part I)

On January 23rd, 2020, the hands of the Doomsday Clock inched forward once again, this time stopping at only 100 seconds before midnight. The clock, which represents the likelihood of an imminent global catastrophe, is closer to midnight than ever before in its 73-year history. The most (…)

Wednesday 19 February 2020

NATO: Brain dead or stronger than ever?

At the 70th anniversary NATO summit in London, which took place in December 2019, it was clear that the problems faced by the organisation have changed very little since its formation in 1949. Although the Soviet Union no longer exists, the threat of Russia still dominates much of the (…)

Monday 17 February 2020

European defence: advances were made, but where are they headed?

Since 2016, the European Union has changed its paradigm in the field of defence. But how can we give body and life to this Security and Defence Union? Only a true European defence project may ensure an overall coherence, and this will be the mission of the next Commission. After decades of (…)

Friday 10 May 2019