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🎙️ Is it now or never for EU tech? We discuss the current geopolitical shifts and what happens next as Europe looks to global partners for cooperation and inspiration.

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🎬 With a significant shift in global finance renewing momentum behind debt swaps, our director San Bilal speaks to Policy Center for the New South on the potential for developing countries.

#AES2025

📣 The EU's new €2 trillion budget proposal has landed. Our expert Andrew Sherriff, having followed five previous MFF negotiations, shares his initial take.

As experience teaches us: with EU budgets, "it's not how they start, but how they end."

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📣 A new "suspension clause" in the EU's external budget marks a significant hardening of its #migration policy. But will it work?

Our migration lead Anna Knoll questions the practical implications of the new #MFF

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📢 Internship opportunity - final call!

We are looking for an operations & events intern to join us in Brussels!

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Domestic & international priorities in the EU’s next long-term budget (MFF 2028-2034) The new long-term budget proposed by the European Commission – the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2028-2034 – does mark a significant shift from the past, in an effort to better empower the EU ...

🌍 A 176% nominal increase for EU external action is a major headline. But what will this bigger budget actually be for?

@sanbilal.bsky.social analyses what we know of the upcoming Global Europe instrument and what it means for global partnerships.

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#MFF #GEI

📝 The EU's €200bn 'Global Europe' instrument is set to reshape external action. But how? We have created an in-depth guide of what is new, what is at stake, and how EU external action is set to change.

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A companion guide to the Global Europe instrument proposal On 16 July 2025, the European Commission unveiled its eagerly anticipated proposal for the next EU long-term budget – the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for 2028-3034 – introducing a new Global...

📝 The EU's €200bn 'Global Europe' instrument is set to reshape external action. But how? We have created an in-depth guide of what is new, what is at stake, and how EU external action is set to change.

Read the guide 👉 bit.ly/4eXQrwA

Centering African Voices: Why EU Migration Policy Should Include African Perspectives  | ISPI As West African states reassess their partnerships and Europe clings to a containment logic, migration cooperation risks becoming a missed opportunity unless it embraces shared priorities, local owner...

📣 Why do so many EU migration policies fall short in Africa? A major reason is the persistent failure to include African perspectives.

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📢 Are you a current or recent student interested in European foreign and development policy?
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🔔 Covering 82 publications, 28 events and all the work we do behind the scenes, the ECDPM Annual Report for 2024 is available now!

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🎙️ The EU won't achieve digital sovereignty by innovation alone.

New #podcast with @robin.berjon.com

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📝 In the Central Sahel, conflict, climate change, and fragility are deeply interlinked. Environmental peacebuilding could be a key initial strategy to unify the EU's fragmented approach in the region.

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🧵The Race for Critical Minerals

The EU is slow to act on critical minerals, lacks mining capacity, and needs partners like China to build full value chains in Africa, says Karim Karaki from @ecdpm.org.

🎙️ Our brand new podcast series is out now! The EU needs new global partnerships to prosper, and we interview leading policymakers, industry leaders and experts on how to get there.

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YouTube video by ECDPM What is digital sovereignty and how can Europe achieve it?

I had a wonderful conversation with Gautam Kamath for the @ecdpm.org podcast.

If you're into digital infrastructure and sovereignty, you should check it out!
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🎙️ From American AI, app stores and services to Chinese apps and infrastructure, Europe feels like it has lost its digital sovereignty.

But what does that mean? And how will global partners be key in regaining control?

New #podcast:
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📝 As the EU prepares its next #MFF, the call for a more impactful external action budget is clear. But how can it achieve flexibility without losing accountability?

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How the EU's Global Gateway Shifted from Development to Geostrategic Interest | ISPI The EU’s initiative is evolving from a development-focused plan into a strategic investment tool aimed at advancing the bloc’s economic, geopolitical and security interests, with a stronger role for t...

📣 The EU's Global Gateway is rapidly shifting from development policy to prioritising European economic, geopolitical and security interests. But can this be balanced with its values?

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@sanbilal.bsky.social for ISPI

Effective aid programming in the next MFF (Part 1): Graduation and differentiation In the first of a two-part brief, Philippe Van Damme explores how the EU can align its economic and geopolitical interests with its founding values and pursuit of mutually beneficial partnerships. He ...

📝 As the gap between development rhetoric and delivery grows wider, how can the EU align its economic and geopolitical interests with its founding values?

And can it become capable of truly mutually beneficial partnerships?

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📝 The world doesn't lack solutions for children, but lacks the investment to scale them.

For @savechildreneu.bsky.social, ECDPM's Katja van der Meer examines the political and funding challenges in prioritising children’s rights in EU external action.

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📣 As negotiations for the upcoming EU budget intensify, it's tempting to view external action as a secondary priority. Our latest commentary argues this is a strategic miscalculation.

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📣 The EU and Africa seem to speak the same language on climate but have clearly diverging priorities. Can this be an opportunity in disguise?

Poorva Karkare argues the key is strategic interdependence, leveraged through green industrialisation.

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📣 Fresh from #FFD4, ECDPM Director @sanbilal.bsky.social reflects on the trajectory of development finance, with three major takeaways to transform key agreements into outcomes for global development.

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📣 As EU legislators consider cuts to development aid, new evidence highlights that foreign aid delivers strong mutual benefits. If the EU values competitiveness, aid must be a substantial component of its next budget.

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The EU’s playbook for African minerals amid China’s dominance - PubAffairs Bruxelles With China remaining dominant in the field of critical raw materials, Poorva Karkare and Karim Karaki argue that the EU can draw lessons from it and carve out a complementary and indispensable role to...

[Commentary] #CRMs: The #EU’s playbook for #African minerals amid #China’s dominance, by Poorva Karkare and Karim Karaki | @ecdpm.org

🔔 We are in Seville for #FFD4 as leaders meet to tackle the crisis in development finance.

Director San Bilal moderated a UN Brussels and @feps-europe.eu event on key issues of international cooperation for improving financing for development.

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📣 If the gap left by the collapse of USAID is too large for the EU to fill on top of its current contributions, what is the next best response?

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