Eventi di attualità

Overcoming the Hungarian and Polish vetoes is key to (at least partially) unblocking the EU budget: a pot of 1.8 billion euros, including the Next Generation EU package. These funds are an essential lifeline to European economies, after an estimated 7.4% drop in GDP this year.

What other steps are necessary to unlock the Recovery Fund for good? Will Europe be able to achieve this long-sought goal? When will the money be spent, and what for? Will we see a stronger and closer European Union emerge from the pandemic? 

The Horn of Africa remains one of the most dynamic regions on the African continent. The political transition that started in Ethiopia little more than two years ago led to virulent domestic developments, as shown by the recent warfare in Tigray. But the Horn also crucially consists of other countries, most notably Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti.

How are ongoing dynamics in Ethiopia impacting the region’s political and security prospects? What trajectories are other states in the area following? How are their external – regional as well as non-African – relations evolving?