🚨 One week to go: join Thijs Van de Graaf with Jilles van den Beukel, Brendan Devlin and Maria Pastukhova for a timely discussion on Europe’s energy security in an age of conflict.
Register here: shorturl.at/jpSQB
#Energy #Geopolitics #Europe #EnergySecurity #EnergyTransition
🚨🗓️ BIG’s European Sovereignty Days are coming up. ⬇️
In the run-up to Europe Day, we’re convening a season of vital and insightful conversations with leading European experts on energy, climate, digital and defence. Join us - and let's think BIG together.
🔗 Info and registration: shorturl.at/s0H9y
Hi from the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, Alastair! You might appreciate one of our latest pieces. ➡️ big-europe.eu/publications...
SAFE was designed as a source of cheap loans, backed by EU joint borrowing, to support Europe’s rearmament. Yet the funds are not immune to politicking. Our latest map shows how defence spending is shaped by political and institutional tensions, as well as military necessity. ➡️🔗 shorturl.at/fcuXN
The direct language from Donald Tusk and Micheál Martin on Hungary’s links with Russia marks a shift: from projecting cohesion at all costs to confronting the rupture within. What is now taking shape is a recalibration: a recognition that unity cannot simply be declared, it must be defended.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Europe is still operating by the logic of a world that no longer exists. From Gaza to the Gulf, the 'Old Normal' is crumbling. Martin Leng argues Europe’s strategic interest lies in recognising that the old rules no longer apply.
🔗 shorturl.at/7IOV8
Europe’s pharma sector is facing a ‘three-body problem’ of AI, US pricing pressure and Chinese innovation. To endure, it must adapt. In a new BIG Briefing, Milena Richter sets out the challenges - and opportunities - for Europe’s competitiveness, resilience and room for action. 🔗➡️ shorturl.at/zjv04
In a new BIG op-ed, @franspaulvdputten.bsky.social
argues the EU needs a clear China strategy now, not in the middle of a crisis. As US–China rivalry sharpens, Europe must stop reacting under pressure and define its interests, its limits, and its strategic autonomy. 🔗 shorturl.at/wsxX1
🌍BIG, the Clingendael Institute and the Egmont Institute organised a workshop focused on how Member States can make the Global Gateway work in practice - from Team National structures and Team Europe to private-sector engagement and partner-country needs. 🔗 Read post-event report: shorturl.at/HRaGp
Amid the fog of an unwanted war, Europe has shown sang-froid. But can it now show coherence? In her latest for BIG, Claude-France Arnould warns that EU overreach and institutional rivalry risk undermining Europe’s credibility.
🔗 Read her full take: shorturl.at/0SsuO
Europe needs strategic foresight that is politically usable, not just bureaucratically cautious. A new BIG paper by Kate O’Riordan and Eliott de Smedt Day argues for scenario planning to build a stronger pan-European strategic culture.
🔗: shorturl.at/vbUXj
The 21st century human experience is one of relentless flux and systemic upheaval. Yet in Europe at least, we have far more in common than a sense of atomisation in a breaking world - hard-won unity as a source of meaning and a foundation for action. ➡️🔗 shorturl.at/viGIn
@europeanfuture.bsky.social
☂️ Nuclear deterrence with a European dimension is becoming an operational reality. Between American strategic withdrawal and the Russian menace, Macron has offered a glimpse of what operationalization looks like.
Read the full analysis by Claude-France Arnould here: shorturl.at/8UL5i
🛢️ As Gulf tensions rattle energy markets, Europe is again reminded of its exposure to external fossil fuel shocks.
In our 4 BIG Questions interview, @thijsvandegraaf.bsky.social says diversification helped - but real security means cutting fossil fuel dependence.🔗Full interview: shorturl.at/mgOPD
🧩As geopolitical risk reshapes investment, partnerships and market access, companies are starting to embed it into strategy - not just risk management.
BIG’s Thomas Laffitte explores how firms are bringing geopolitical judgement into corporate governance. 🔗 Full paper here: shorturl.at/GD6jK
In a dangerous world, the EU is under pressure to step up defence spending. Our new Report by @vestertborger.bsky.social takes stock of the financial mechanisms, budgetary politics and hard choices behind the existential challenge of our time – defending Europe.
📖🔗 Read it here: shorturl.at/JaHoh
On the 4th anniversary of land warfare’s grim return to European soil, BIG convened an expert webinar to take stock of the situation on the ground – and reflect upon the wider geostrategic implications of Ukraine’s struggle. Watch the conversation below ⬇️ or read the report here: shorturl.at/C37EZ
Four years of war in Ukraine has turned geopolitical positioning into domestic political rifts. Across Central/Eastern Europe, populists are using this divide to their advantage, with the upcoming Hungarian elections – and Orbán’s latest manoeuvres – a telling case in point. ➡️🔗 shorturl.at/6vQfJ
The EU’s #SAFE instrument will make nearly €150bn of loans available for Member States to buy weaponry and defence systems. Investment plans for FR, CZ and HU are still under assessment by the Commission - but for 16 others, the Council of the #EU is now releasing the funds. Here's who gets what. ⬇️
Join us to reflect on Ukraine’s resilience, Europe’s reckoning and the strategic questions demanding answers.
On 24 February, BIG is hosting a webinar on Ukraine’s endurance and Europe’s strategic choices, with Mariana Budjeryn, Ed Arnold and Oleksandra Azarkhina.
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/UAaRg
Europe is looking to the stars in 2026 - but “failure to launch” is a real risk 🔭 Uncoordinated national “coopetition” can fragment delivery. In his latest essay for BIG, Alban Guyomarc’h argues tech roadmaps can bridge rhetoric to deployable systems.
Read the full article here: 🔗 shorturl.at/0KaDO
Time for Brexit Britain to come in from the cold? With the ‘Special Relationship’ turning sour, and the next UK-EU summit pencilled in for the spring, BIG’s Martin Leng argues that the UK should re-embrace its European destiny while it still remains politically possible. ➡️🔗 shorturl.at/5m157
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Faced with the New America, a compelling new narrative of who ‘We’ are is a vital ideological bulwark. Writing for @euractiv.com today, BIG's Director @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social calls on Europe to relearn the ‘language of power’ – and reclaim the power of language.
🔗 Read here: shorturl.at/8XojK
At tomorrow’s #EU–#India Summit, a partnership with real geopolitical weight meets its moment of truth. Brussels leans on rules and standards; New Delhi defends policy space. BIG’s Valeria Santi examines why bridging the governance gap is now the central geopolitical task. ⬇️
🔗 shorturl.at/brYB5
While Mark Carney may have charted a new strategic direction in #Davos, Trump’s Greenland climbdown reveals that Mark Rutte's flattery and diplomacy remain essential survival skills.
BIG's @hanskribbe.bsky.social dissects the repercussions from an Alpine summit like no other. ⬇️
🔗 shorturl.at/epJuF
The #EU’s shift away from #oil and #gas is good news for the planet – but for its fossil fuels suppliers, the picture is more complex. Writing for Nature Energy, BIG Fellow Thijs Van de Graaf explores the moral and geopolitical dilemma behind Europe’s green transition. ➡️ shorturl.at/xp26D
🗺️ Most maps push the Arctic to the margins. On a polar projection, the High North is an operational arena – shipping, cables, air corridors, early warning and SAR. 🧭🧩
💡 BIG’s map shows how Arctic connectivity reshapes distance, access and influence.
🔗 Check the map here: shorturl.at/PG6fE
🎙️ BIG's @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social spoke with @euscream.bsky.social for their latest episode. What next after the geostrategic wake-up call in the High North?
🔊⬇️ Listen here now:
Spotify: shorturl.at/6QESm
Web: shorturl.at/8v6HY
#Greenland #Denmark #Trump #USA #Security #Defence