If AI saves a team 10h a week, what do [think tanks] do with that time? Do they chase more outputs? Or do they invest in storytelling [] and engagement – the things that deepen impact? Asks @designbysoapbox.bsky.social @johnschwartz.bsky.social. Up to us all to make sure it's the latter. @ecdpm.org

Writing for the algorithm? @cfieschi.bsky.social talking to @catherinedevries.bsky.social. Can something be 'shareable' without losing its complexity? What do you think @sbeverts.bsky.social @anthonyzach.be @garethbxl.bsky.social ?

At the #Dynamig conference in rainy and #EUCO locked Brussels. ‘Improving living conditions in countries of origin can be effective in reducing migration’s aspirations and migration pressures’. One of the interesting findings that came from the analysis of #EUTF. Interesting policy implications

@catherinedevries.bsky.social interviews @casmudde.bsky.social. Very interesting and insightful as usual. catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

US ambo on #DMA & #DSA: “..if the intent is to inflict economic pain on competitors outside of Europe to help European companies, that’s something that the United States would object to […] You can’t have legislation that punishes companies from . . . your ally.” US tariffs then? @financialtimes.com

Immensely sad. RIP Robert Redford. 😢

Indeed, another spectacle of internal divisions that we could have easily done without.

These Dutch guys deserve your support. They bring discarded fishing and flower bulb nets to Ukraine. To protect people and lives. All volunteers doing the right things. But donations have dropped, so time we all step up.

Everytime you want to override fear with numbers you will fail - advice to politicians by Kata Tüttő - president of CoR at the opening of #europcom

A third of the @undp.org budget today comes for programmes countries themselves. UNDP Ahunna Eziakonwa on agency, multilateralism that goes beyond NY, Brussels and Geneva and not choosing sides.

At the European Parliament for the @ettg.bsky.social conference on the next steps for Eu development policy. @shirinwheeler.bsky.social moderating @billgates.bsky.social and International Partnerships commissioner Síkela. Cuts and changing policy priorities obviously centre stage.

🙃 Sad that while outside #Italy they call it a crucial #referendum, the current government is pushing people not to bother voting to prevent reaching the 50% threshold. 🙃 #iovoto

@adamtooze.bsky.social loved your FT piece today. The sort of stop-and-think articles I am happy to start my day with. More EU cooperation of course, but how would you push current leaders to actually do it? #EUdefence

✏️ Very good and useful read on how to shape a better research question. And, more generally, a place to help you write better. ✏️ Good resource for us @ecdpm.org

[Commentary] #GlobalEurope: The #AU-#EU partnership - Closer ties or common worries? By @virginiamucchi.bsky.social | @ecdpm.org www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...

Very glad that in a crowded policy space @euiss.bsky.social and @ecdpm.org joined forces to put the spotlight on EU-AU relations. Partners in the storm we called it - attracting a room full of people and energy. Doesn’t happen every day in Brussels. Read here what it all means:

After the meeting between European and African ministers we organised a debrief to hear how things went...Very well, they told us. But is it true? My write-up. @ecdpm.org @euiss.bsky.social

As the next #EUAU ministerial approaches, we suggest different ways to move the relationship between the two continents forward. @ec.europa.eu @eudiplomacy.bsky.social

📝 EU investment in the Lobito Corridor is sometimes seen as a ploy to disrupt Chinese infrastructure dominance in Africa, but the reality on the ground is more complicated, and EU investments unclear. Read the paper 👉 bit.ly/4lAPbT3

Our latest paper on the Lobito corridor...

Love "Democrats show a pulse" 😂 About time.

It's all about strategic #differentiation. Our latest commentary by @chloeteevan.bsky.social @amedinil.bsky.social and Karim Karaki on making the EU more competitive through smart partnerships.

📅 Next week! We are hosting the Kenyan ambassador to the EU and others in our Brussels office to discuss how the EU can rethink its approach to international partnerships in the face of emerging challenges. Registration and info 👉 bit.ly/3R0uNMW

📣 The retreat of USAID disrupts development aims across the globe. The EU will have to respond to maintain its development ambitions - but how? Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/4ioX7on

26 out 27 exposes a huge disunity, @politico.eu ?? It shows that one country disagrees. Nothing huge there. And not the first time it happens. #EUCO

But are EU foreign ministers even talking to each other today?The reactions seem to be all uncoordinated... #EU #ukraine #trump

Foreign policy ideas emerging... #Merz #Germanelections

Angry, violent and totally unpredictable....

Very different times....

🔔 3 days left to apply 🔔 We are looking for a junior fundraiser with expertise in business development and project management to join our institutional relations and partnerships team in Brussels. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3Bu4g6P #vacancy #hiring

Our second 2024 highlights video is out. @ecdpm.org

"If you study migrants, you should also hear from them" dynamig.org/publications...

We started interviewing our experts on @ecdpm.bsky.social's most significant projects of 2024.... First one up... @anna-knoll.bsky.social, head of our Migration and Mobility team!

“Mechanisation leads to the decay of taste, the decay of taste leads to the demand for machine-made articles and hence to more mechanisation, and so a vicious circle is established,” George Orwell, The road to Wigan Pier, 1937

A very interesting launch, a book with human stories that make the more jargony climate-security nexus narrative very compelling! A line from our EEAS discussant on those affected by climate change stuck with me: "many of them never knew abundance, but the knew predictability". Food for thought.

One question to my fellows @bsky.app friends - and friends of friends. Is the hope that the 'other' platform will die one day, or if all of us leave it, we will not simply help create two bubbles that do not talk to each other? And how useful will that be? @jonworth.eu @anthonyzach.be

Interested in international cooperations and EU foreign policy? Help us complete our starter pack!

I guess this might not be necessary true now....

Exactly.

Unlike @thierrybreton.bsky.social, 'I don't think we can expect Henna Virkkunen to get into online battles with Elon Musk' - @ecdpm.bsky.social Chloe Teevan on the new VP for #tech, security and democracy. You never know.. youtu.be/exQO3lJaZvM?...

Our first reactions to the mission letters of Jozef Sikela - new commissioner for International Partnerships - and new High Representative Kaja Kallas. More to come... @ecdpm.bsky.social www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Weekly Compass is back! Subscribe here!! 👉 shorturl.at/IHfzM This week, we publish the first paper of a project on Europe, China and the Global South. We talk about #Mpox vaccines...and much more. @ecdpm.bsky.social 📷 bit.ly/4gjqb03

📅 How can we use the growing demand for critical raw materials to promote green industrial development and sustainability in Africa? ECDPM's Alfonso Medinilla will be speaking at the WTO Public Forum

📣 Commentary | #EU #cooperation #GlobalGateway The EU's approach to international cooperation has suffered from slow progress and a lack of political direction. How could von der Leyen turn this around in her second term? Read in full 👉 bit.ly/4f8fDQO

And we are now also officially on @bsky.app. Welcome @ecdpm.bsky.social ...

The final episode of the second season of @ecdpm.bsky.social podcast series on #gender is online. We talk with Lydia Charles Moyo, founder of the Tanzanian organisation, Her Initiative, that helps women and girls become financially independent. A great story. ecdpm.org/work/yes-fin...

We have collected all our recent work on gender and international cooperation in a handy new dossier. In it we also have information on what we @ecdpm.bsky.social are doing to mainstream gender throughout our research.