Future and outlook

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Régis Genté

10 March 2026

   Never before has the former Soviet republic of Moldova been so close to Europe. Thanks to the war in Ukraine and a resolutely pro-Western head of state and government, European authorities have accelerated the implementation and negotiation procedures for its accession to the European...

Future and outlook

 
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22 December 2025

The Schuman Network, an initiative of the Foundation, is working to promote the sharing of ideas on a European scale. With 21 members from 13 European countries, the Schuman Network is a forum to pool research on current European issues. Since its launch, over 195 studies have been published.

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Gender equality

 
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Fondation Robert Schuman

23 December 2025

The Foundation has published profiles of 27 'European Women of Influence' to highlight the decisive role played by women in the construction and influence of the European Union. Founded on the values of equality and human rights, Europe is also being built by women who innovate, make decisions and...

Africa and the Middle East

 
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Louis Caudron

14 October 2025

Official development assistance (ODA) is in trouble. It is in crisis. In the United States, Donald Trump decided, one month after returning to the White House, to abolish the USAID programme, which managed US ODA amounting to $64 billion in 2023. While the European Union and its Member States...

Strategy, Security and Defence

 
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Amiral (2S) Bernard Rogel

18 November 2025

When the Soviet empire collapsed in the 1990s, the existential threat to our borders became a thing of the past. At the time, we did not realise that this would only be temporary in the grand scheme of history. Taking a deep breath, we entered a period known as the ‘peace dividends’,...

Elections in Europe

 
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Helen Levy

24 February 2026

On 22 March 2026, Slovenians will go to the polls to elect the 90 members of the lower house of parliament, the Državni Zbor, in an election called by President Natas Pirc Musar on 6 January. In the last general elections in 2022, this country of just over 2 million inhabitants overturned Janez...

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Emmanuel Macron's speech on nuclear deterrence on 2 March marks a major shift in French nuclear doctrine in the interests of European security. With several Member States already signalling their interest, some by signing agreements with France, the new French concept of 'forward deterrence' could ultimately constitute a genuine European revolution capable of ensuring the continent's security.

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Ukraine Russia

 
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Paul Gogo

15 July 2025

Following the failure of negotiations on Ukraine, the Kremlin's attitude should be viewed through the prism of its fears and obsessions. ‘I consider Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours,’ Vladimir Putin declared on 20 June at the St Petersburg...

Editorial

 
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2 March 2026

On 28 February, against a backdrop of growing tensions over Iran's nuclear programme and following the regime's bloody crackdown on popular uprisings, the United States and Israel made 'the choice of war' by launching a series of coordinated strikes against military and strategic targets. Faced with this new phase of escalation in the Middle East, Europe is prioritising law and diplomacy, faithful to the democratic values on which it is founded, and is committed to preserving peace, the price of which it knows only too well after so many conflicts.

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