The European Union’s New Energy Policy: Vulnerability, Security, and Cooperation
This paper asks whether institutionalized cooperation among EU member states has been an efficient model for responding to the shift in power relation…
Category: Energy & Climate
The Lobito Corridor Beyond Geopolitical Competition: Infrastructure, Critical Minerals and Regional Development
Officially launched in May 2023 under the G7 Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, the Lobito Corridor received further political endo…
Energy Infrastructure as a Strategic Target: Intelligence and Security Challenges for Europe
European energy security is no longer only a question of supply, storage and import dependence. It is also a problem of infrastructure warning.
The Future of Energy in the CFSP
The "Future of Energy in the CFSP" project aims to examine and clarify the EU's energy insecurity. The study considers data collected from Eurostat an…
Globalisation under strain: a political and economic analysis of EU governance in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine
Russia’s war against Ukraine has exposed vulnerabilities in the European Union’s model of economic interdependence, particularly its reliance on R…
Decolonising the Green Transition: Hegemony, Extractivism and EU-Chile Lithium Relations
In its drive towards net-zero emissions, the European Union’s climate targets depend on sourcing critical minerals, such as lithium, from the Global…
Why Brazil Matters for European Energy Security: Pragmatic Decarbonisation and Green Reindustrialisation
This paper argues that Brazil should be comprehended as a strategically relevant partner for European energy security in the context of the EU’s dec…
India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor: Securing Europe’s Energy Autonomy and Trade Resilience Against Polycrisis Risks
Announced at the 2023 G20 summit in New Delhi, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is a multimodal network of rail links, ports, hyd…
Collective Benefits, Local Costs: Governing Critical Raw Materials in the European Union
The EU has spent around €1.8 billion on critical raw materials since 2014, barely enough to open one and a half mines the size of Finland's Sakatti.…
Between Standards and Interests: Does the EU Still Have Any Influence in the Middle East?
Germany wore rainbow wristbands in Doha while signing a 15-year LNG deal. This paper dissects the EU's structural contradiction in the Gulf — real l…