As we navigate an evolving disaster risk landscape in Europe, we should acknowledge the lessons we have learned and the progress we have made in finding solutions to some of the challenges we have been grappling with. Several initiatives funded by the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) have...

This analytical report provides an overview of cyber-enabled hybrid interference in the Western Balkans, along with recommendations on how to improve approaches to effectively counter these threats. To this end, the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) designed and conducted a s...

In December 1984, an agreement between the European Commission and the European University Institute laid the foundation for what would become the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU). The HAEU has since become the EU institutions' official archival centre for the preservation and ac...

2024 has confirmed how much Europe is in danger. From Ukraine to the Middle East, via South Caucasus, the Horn of Africa or the Sahel, conflicts and crises have been multiplying on our doorstep. Not forgetting the rising tensions in the South China Sea. All of this at a time where the US commitm...

The EU’s foreign and security policy is in urgent need of a reboot. The EU’s current approach to foreign policy was designed for a world at peace, where multilateralism was strong and global rules and norms were upheld. That world has vanished. We now live in an age of contestation and growing g...

Over the last half century East Asia has become the global economy’s manufacturing hub. Powerful trends have made a military conflict in East Asia, especially over Taiwan, more likely since 2016. The most important of these are China’s rapid military modernisation and increasing number of hostil...