Executive board member @bertelsmannST Frmr Director @dgapev and OSF Europe/Centralasia. Latest books: „Krisenzeit“ and „Final Call“ (EU between US & China)
Jun 11 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Take-aways 🇺🇦 Recovery Conference #URC2024.
Top level commitment from EU countries & US to support Ukraine fight back invasion, to continue reconstruction during war & to step up when war is over. An important message as EP elections also strengthened Russia-friendly far-right.
Ursula von der Leyen confirms: Accession negotiations with Ukraine are likely to start before the end of June, so before Hungary takes over EU Presidency.
This will hopefully give negotiations on security framework a push, as EU accession will not solve this issue. 2/
Sep 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
After 8 months of work we will present our report on EU institutional reform to the General Affairs Council today.
Thank you to @annaluehrmann and @LaurenceBoone for tasking the 12 of us to develop ideas on the what & how. A 🧵on how our idependent expert group worked 1/6
While the group's composition is Franco-German, we worked with many other Europeans - former & active decision-makers, advisers, experts from EU & candidate countries.
Thanks to all of you for significant input! It helped us select & sharpen recommendations & develop the "how".