August 25, 2025 The European Union’s development strategy is at a crossroads, facing a global “polycrisis” that demands a new approach. Our latest policy brief argues for a fundamental overhaul, drawing on rich discussions from the ETTG-PISM dialogue on resilience held earlier this year in Warsaw to explore how incorporating
We had the pleasure to co-host, alongside the EADI Working Group on the EU as a Development Actor and the College of Europe, an academic/practitioner seminar titled “Directions of EU Development Policy under von der Leyen II” in Natolin, Poland, on October 7th. This seminar, organised in collaboration with Sebastian
Description and credits: View of São Paulo Estaiada Bridge in Brazil, by Cifotart, via iStock We are proud to announce the latest policy brief authored by our Director Iliana Olivié and María Santillán O’Shea (Elcano Royal Institute) titled “The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development”. This comprehensive analysis offers critical
Three concurrent crises — climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine — have combined to worsen food insecurity and malnutrition around the globe. Extreme climate events are becoming more frequent and severe, magnifying the already higher food prices caused by agricultural supply chain disruptions precipitated first by the pandemic and now by geopolitical turbulence. The Rome Based Agencies are called to provide concrete and effective responses to these multi-crises. This report is the result of an Open Consultation Forum organised with IFAD running candidates in June 2022.
Geopolitics has an important role to play in securing the health of both people and planet. Indeed, businesses cannot be asked to govern the planet’s health if some of the most polluting countries in the world are not on board. Successful governance of planetary health depends on geopolitics and cross border implementation. It also demands that special attention be paid to the interlinkages between businesses, environmental justice and inequalities. All of these are crucial to advance the universal right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
The present study is the product of the European Think Tanks Group (ETTG) collaboration aiming both to propose a definition of SDG alignment and to provide concrete principles to further operationalise and promote such alignment in practice.
