How can Europe avoid getting ‘pulverised’ in a titanic geo-economic clash between the US and China?
Arguably, it’s the defining question of our times. As commerce and power are becoming inseparable, the EU faces new dilemmas that require greater strategic awareness and more centralised decision making.
Yet within the siloed governance culture of Brussels, geostrategic decisions tend to be ‘improvised, opaque and prone to bureaucratic tunnel vision’.
Writing in Euractiv, Shearwater Partner Hans Kribbe explains why the formation of an EU Economic Security Council offers a pragmatic and effective way forward.
London – 12 June: Abigail Morris, the former Director of Communications at the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), is joining Shearwater Global as an Associate Partner.
Inside the civil service during election year. A distinguishing feature of the British political system is the speed and seamlessness of the transition to a new government following a General Election. That is at least in part due to having a permanent civil service, which stays in place throughout the pre and post election period...
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– Lord Jo Johnson, Chair of International Advisory Board