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Migration to Europe – is North Africa Europe's boarder guard?

Schäfer, Isabel (2015)
The Current Column, 08. June 2015

The transit states in North Africa are facing pressure on several different fronts, whether socio-economic crises, political conflicts, transit migration from sub-Saharan Africa or the externalisation of EU migration control.

Urban labs beyond Europe: the formation and contextualization of experimental climate governance in five Latin American cities

Roll, Michael / Florencia Almansi / Jorgelina Hardoy / Simone Gatti / Ariadne Samios / Lucas Turmena / Mariana Campos / Gorka Zubicaray (2024)
External Publications

The winding road to renewed Europe-Africa partnership in post-COVID world

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Carl Michiels / Geert Laporte / Natalie Tocci / Sara Pantuliano / Sebastian Treyer / Vera Mazzara (2021)
External Publications

Once the dust of the COVID-19 crisis settles, it will be time to build a new foundation for Europe-Africa relations. As the EU searches for allies in a post-COVID world, a group of seven European think tank leaders looks at how to build a stronger Europe-Africa axis in the multilateral system.

Working better together? A comparative assessment of five Team Europe Initiatives

Keijzer, Niels / Iliana Olivié / Marie Santillán O’Shea / Svea Koch / Gabriel Leiva (2023)
External Publications

Europe’s role in post-COVID MENA

Online, 13. October 2020

The Covid-19 Pandemic has increased socio-economic vulnerability, with the potential to undermine social justice and peace across the MENA . Whether this results in increased pressure on Europe’s border security, asylum and health systems is unclear, but the demand for Europe to act in support of vulnerable communities in MENA countries…

2009 - the year of Europe? Yes, we must!

Grimm, Sven (2009)
The Current Column, 12. January 2009

Development cooperation and stability in South-Eastern Europe: a Herculean or a Sisyphean task?

Wittkowsky, Andreas (1999)
Briefing Paper 5/1999

Just energy transition partnerships in the context of Africa-Europe relations: reflections from South Africa, Nigeria and Senegal

Hege, Elisabeth / Chukwumerije Okereke, / Sébastian Treyer / Youba Sokona / Youba Kingiri / Niels Keijzer / Fatima Denton (2022)
External Publications

Reshaping global Development: will Europe lead? An argument and a call for action

Berman, Thijs / Bengt Braun / Margret Jay / Filip Kacmarek / Louka Katseli / Simon Maxwell / Dirk Messner / Ana Palacio / Laurence Tubiana / Kevin Watkins (2014)
External Publications

Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und humanitäre Hilfe

Keijzer, Niels / Julian Bergmann (2022)
External Publications

A five-point plan for dealing with the refugee crisis: there are no small solutions to big problems

Messner, Dirk (2015)
External Publications

Trump, Brexit, populism – wither multilateralism and liberal world order?

Thomas Henökl (2017)
The Current Column, 19. January 2017

Never before has the change of administration in the United States caused this much concern globally, and never before has an US-President incited so much tension ahead of taking office.

Treating migration as a security threat won’t make it go away

Furness, Mark (2016)
External Publications

EU engagement with Africa on migration: a change of approach required

Castillejo, Clare (2018)
Briefing Paper 9/2018

The EU's approach to addressing migration from Africa is undermining development principles and relations with African partners, while failing to achieve results. This paper examines the limitations of the EU’s current approach and argues that more constructive engagement on migration is required.

Europe, the IMF, and the developing countries

Wolff, Peter (2011)
The Current Column, 26. September 2011

The EU-CEAP impacts on developing countries: an analysis of the plastic packaging, electric vehicles and batteries sectors

To, Jenny (2022)
Discussion Paper 12/2022

The discussion paper analyses opportunities and challenges of the European Union Circular Economy Action Plan (EU-CEAP) for developing and emerging countries (DECs) with a focus on the plastic packaging, electric vehicles and batteries sectors.

Agenda for sustainable development: what are the EU’s ambitions?

Hackenesch, Christine / Niels Keijzer (2016)
External Publications

Bringing development policy (back) in the picture

Hackenesch, Christine / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch (2024)
The Current Column, 29. January 2024

Continuing the current direction of assertively and pragmatically pursuing the EU’s geostrategic interests carries the risk of fuelling conflicts of interest with a more assertive Global South.

What should (and what should not) be done to ease the Syrian refugee crisis?

Furness, Mark / Annabelle Houdret (2015)
The Current Column, 08. September 2015

In recent weeks the flood of Syrian refugees seeking protection in the EU has developed into a crisis without precedent in recent European history.

Policy for a rules-based multipolar world

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Axel Berger (2025)
The Current Column, 24. February 2025

Over the next four years, the new German government, as a driving force in Europe, must throw its full weight behind securing the rules-based order.