EUCO Debrief is our series of policy responses to the regularly published conclusions of the European Council. Each time the European Council meet for a summit, TEPSA gathers its leading academics to comment on the conclusions, analysing alliances formed, maintained, and broken, investigating the policy implications of the consensus reached, and prescribing solutions to move Europe forward. This month, our experts focus on a number of important topics discussed at the European Council: updates on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, EU energy policy in the context of the war, the state of play as regards EU-China relations, and more.

This month, in addition to the foreword by TEPSA Secretary-General Jim Cloos, our expert contributors include: 

UKRAINE – RUSSIA

• Ondřej Ditrych, Institute of International Relations Prague (IIR), Czech Republic
• Olesya Tkacheva, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) of the Brussels School of Governance, Belgium

ENERGY

• Nuno Gama de Oliveira Pinto, Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI-NOVA), Centre of International Relations at Iscte-University Institute in Lisbon (CEI-ISCTE), and ISG – Business & Economics School, Portugal.

EU-CHINA RELATIONS

• Mihai Sebe, European Institute of Romania, Romania
• Ondřej Ditrych, Institute of International Relations Prague (IIR), Czech Republic