by Anna Diamantopoulou President of DIKTIO ECFR Council Member The EU should look to its own history as it aims to secure its own interests and resolve tensions in the eastern Mediterranean. The United States’ geopolitical retreat and China’s growing aggressiveness, together with the latter’s normative incapacity to lead, should impel Europe to adopt a…
The Annual Actions Report of DIKTIO 2019-2020
Friends of Europe marks its first Board of Trustees meeting since the COVID-19 crisis with an announcement of the appointment of 29 high-level new members to its Board of Trustees. On the agenda is the outlook of the European Project post-Covid, and the way in which Friends of Europe can best contribute. The outcomes and…
DIKTIO participated in the annual General Assembly of the members of FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies). About 60 member organizations and observers – members from all over Europe, discussed the progressive agenda on which all actions of FEPS are based, while members voted to approval of the 2019 accounts and annual report, report on…
Anna Diamantopoulou President of DIKTIO; ECFR Council Member; Former European Commissioner and Minister The European Commission’s response to the coronavirus faces at least five fundamental challenges – all of which create significant opportunities for Europe. When I joined the European Commission, the first rule I learnt related to the mantra “the country I know best”.…
A COVID-19 CONVERSATION: PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE An online discussion on Covid-19 and its impact in the global level organized by DIKTIO held on 24th of April. Dr. Harvey Fineberg, a former dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, Provost of Harvard University and President of Institute of Medicine, is the Chair of the Standing Committee on…
Christian Leffler, Former Deputy Secretary General of the EU External Action Service Upon retiring from public service, I left Brussels early March for a family break in New Zealand. Little did I know, or even imagine, that we would return, three weeks later, to a radically transformed reality. Self-isolation was not on the agenda when…
Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies Member of DIKTIO’s International Advisory Council The Covid-19 crisis will dramatically reshape the EU’s response to all other crises it has faced in the last decade. “What strange days we are living in”, a Spanish friend wrote to me yesterday – and strange they are. We…
Giles Merritt, Founder and Chairman of “Friends of Europe” and DIKTIO’s International Council Member, wrote an article calls on the European Union’s leaders to abandon their national measures and commit to total solidarity in the face of the Corona virus crisis. How shaken should be our faith in governments’ handling of the Corona virus? At…
DIKTIO supports the Appeal for a European Answer to the Coronavirus Threat! All citizens are invited to sign this Appeal, which was promoted by philosophers Roberto Castaldi and Daniel Innerarity and signed in 1 day by over 400 personalities from academia, civil society, business community, institutions from all over the EU, and even from countries…