HR/VP Blog – Last week, at the European Council, we had a first exchange on the Net Zero Industry Act and the Critical Raw Materials Act presented recently by the European Commission. This legislative package has major implications for our foreign policy. We need to avoid that our ambitions to reduce excessive dependencies could be considered as a kind of ‘green protectionism’, as I have heard...

HR/VP Blog – 2022 was marked by the return of high intensity war to the European continent with the invasion of Ukraine launched by Vladimir Putin. This war and its global consequences dominates logically the yearbook that I have just published, like in previous years, bringing together several of my blog posts, op-eds and speeches published in 2022.