Spain and Poland: strategic partners in a Union in flux

The Elcano Royal Institute is a think-tank for international and strategic studies that analyses world events and trends from a Spanish, European and global perspective.

The Analyses of the Elcano Royal Institute (ARI)are short pieces - of around 3,000 words - on aspects of current international affairs considered to be of relevance to Spain, its foreign policy or its security. In broad terms ARIs are intended to have a predictive bearing on events.The Directors and analysts of the Polish Institute of International Affairs and the Elcano Royal Institute held a meeting in Madrid on 11 December 2014. At the encounter, which was also attended by the Polish and Spanish Secretaries of State for European Affairs, the two think tanks (which maintain a strategic partnership) discussed their countries’ future in the EU, security issues in the common neighbourhood and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.