Judy Asks: Can the EU Ever Be Strategic?

A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey each week on a European topic in the news.

In this feature the question was: Can the EU Ever Be Strategic?

The experts were:

+ Cornelius Adebahr - Nonresident fellow at Carnegie Europe
+ Rosa Balfour - Senior fellow and acting director of the Europe Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and member of the Steering Committee of Women in International Security (WIIS) Brussels
+ Kris Bledowski - Council director and senior economist at the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation
+ Steven Blockmans - Senior research fellow and head of EU foreign policy at the Centre for European Policy Studies
+ Fraser Cameron - Director of the EU-Russia Centre
+ Thanos Dokos - Director general of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
+ Kristina Kausch - Senior resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States
+ Denis MacShane - Former UK minister for Europe
+ Artis Pabriks - Member of the European Parliament
+ Marc Pierini - Visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe
+ Gianni Riotta - Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
+ Daniela Schwarzer - Director of the Research Institute at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
+ Constanze Stelzenmüller - Robert Bosch senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
+ Nathalie Tocci - Deputy director of the Italian Institute of International Affairs
+ Ben Tonra - Professor of international relations at the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin
+ Pierre Vimont - Senior fellow at Carnegie Europe

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Future of the EU: which scenarios are the most likely to unfold? http://www.europeansources.info/record/future-of-the-eu-which-scenarios-are-the-most-likely-to-unfold/

ESO: Background information: Challenges for the EU [What Think Tanks are thinking] http://www.europeansources.info/record/challenges-for-the-eu-what-think-tanks-are-thinking/

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