In een wereld waarin de democratie steeds meer bedreigd wordt, kijkt Itinera er nauwlettend op toe dat individuele rechten en vrijheden standhouden. Een betrouwbaar rechtssysteem is de basis, vertrouwen in de politiek moet de ambitie zijn van de overheid. Door te focussen op haar kerntaken, zorgvuldig om te springen met belastinggeld en rekenschap af te leggen.
European security cannot only be built from the top down. It starts with people—citizens who are aware, engaged, and prepared. Civil buy-in and resilience are not secondary or symbolic; they are foundational to modern security.
The 9th of May marked the European Union’s official ‘Europe day’. This celebration of ‘peace and unity in Europe’ stands in stark contrast with the world beyond.
With US president Trump living up to his campaign promise to quickly end the war in Ukraine through what Ukraine and Europe fear would be a Russian peace without their involvement, Europe collectively faces its 21st century Suez moment.
This episode of EuropeChats is a discussion between Marc De Vos, CEO of the Itinera Institute and author of “Superpower Europe: The European Union’s Silent Revolution”, and TEPSA Secretary-General Jim Cloos.
2025: soon as far from 2000 as from 2050! What are the inflection points and future questions on the road to 2050? Marc De Vos wrote his opinion on this in a short essay. Many questions that Itinera is deeply concerned with and on which it tries to exert impact on the possible answers.
‘We all know what we have to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we’ve done it.’ Thus spoke Jean-Claude Juncker as then President of the Eurogroup back in 2007.
A sense of defeatism hangs over the war in Ukraine. The Russian invasion is creeping forward and the frontline is showing cracks. President Putin is becoming more reckless in his attacks on civilians and cities.
If anyone in Europe still harbours any illusions about state of the world, a group photo from the last week’s BRICS summit in Kazan should suffice.
The European Union is in a state of revolution. In response to new global realities from the climate crisis to the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine to the emerging cold war with China, the EU is transforming into a federal superpower in a new world order.
