EU/Europe

Research

Dr. Peter Becker

Senior Associate

peter.becker@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- EU, Europe
- Economics, trade, resources
- EU budget and finances
- EU internal market
- EU regional policy
- EU sectoral policies
- Economic Governance
- Principles of European integration
PD Dr. habil. Annegret Bendiek

Senior Fellow

annegret.bendiek@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- Digitalisation, cyber, technology
- EU, Europe
- Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
- Digital Policy and Cyber
- EU foreign policy
- European Union
Projects
- European Repository of Cyber Incidents (EuRepoC)
Jakob Bund

Associate

jakob.bund@swp-berlin.org
Projects
- European Repository of Cyber Incidents (EuRepoC)
Dr. Oliver Geden

Senior Fellow

oliver.geden@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- EU, Europe
- Energy, climate, environment
Projects
Dr. phil. Ronja Kempin

Senior Fellow

ronja.kempin@swp-berlin.org
phone:+49 30 88007- 223
Areas of Expertise
- EU, Europe
- Security and defence policy
- France
- Germany
- Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)
- Defence and security policy / Armed forces
- EU foreign policy
- Populism
Dr. sc. pol. Kai-Olaf Lang

Senior Fellow

kai-olaf.lang@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- EU, Europe
- Baltic countries
- Central and Eastern Europe
- EU Eastern Partnership
- EU enlargement policy
- European Union
Dr. agr. Bettina Rudloff

Senior Associate

bettina.rudloff@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- Agriculture policy
- Crisis management
- Development cooperation
- EU foreign trade policy
- Foreign trade policy
- Global nutrition
Dr. Felix Schenuit

Associate

felix.schenuit@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- Climate policy
- EU climate policy
- EU institutions
- European Union
Projects
- Upscaling of Carbon Dioxide Removal (UPTAKE)
- State of CDR Report
Paweł Tokarski, PhD

Senior Associate

pawel.tokarski@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- EU, Europe
- Economics, trade, resources
- France
- Italy
- Economic Governance
- European Union
- Eurozone
- Financial and debt crisis
Marina Vulović, PhD

Visiting Fellow

marina.vulovic@swp-berlin.org

SWP Publications

- Felix Schenuit
- Domenik Treß
Scaling Industrial Carbon Dioxide Removal: Policy Options for a Short-Term Strategy
- German
SWP Comment 2025/C 13, 09.04.2025, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025C13
- Marina Vulović
Was Trumps erneute Präsidentschaft für die Konflikte im Westbalkan bedeutet

Auch wenn der Westbalkan noch nicht im Fokus der neuen US-Regierung steht, dürfte die Region weiterhin von Interesse bleiben – als möglicher Schauplatz eines außenpolitischen Kurswechsels hin zu Transaktionismus und wirtschaftlichen Eigeninteressen in der US-Außenpolitik, meint Marina Vulović.

Kurz gesagt, 07.04.2025
US ohne AID?

Der schnelle und umfassende Rückzug der USA aus der internationalen Zusammenarbeit hat weltweit bestürzte Reaktionen ausgelöst. Welche unmittelbaren Folgen und Herausforderungen dies – auch über die Abwicklung von USAID hinaus - mit sich bringt, legt dieses 360 Grad dar.

360 Grad, 04.04.2025
- Peter Becker
Die Zukunft der Europäischen Kohäsionspolitik

Wege der Reform

SWP-Studie 2025/S 05, 26.03.2025, 36 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025S05
The EU’s Raw Materials Diplomacy: Serbia as a Test Case
- German
The Rule of Law and Sustainability as Benchmarks for Europe’s Raw Materials Cooperation

SWP Comment 2025/C 10, 12.03.2025, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025C10
- Bettina Rudloff
The EU between unilateral sustainability approaches and bilateral trade agreements

Paths to better partnerships

Research Division EU/Europe, Working Paper Nr. 05/2025, March 2025, 47 pages
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Projects

The British-German Outlook Group is a yearly exchange organised by SWP together with our partner Chatham House and kindly funded by the German Foreign Office. The Outlook Group brings together officials and leading expert of both countries for an exchange on the future of Europe, British-German relations and joint foreign policy interests.
SWP Berlin and CEPS are joining forces to set up a High-Level Group on bolstering EU democracy to develop and disseminate policy recommendations to strengthen EU democracy, to be published within a dedicated report in September 2023.
The Daimler U.S. European Forum on Global Issues is hosted by the Brookings Institution (Washington), the Centre for European Reform (London) and the SWP, with the support of Daimler AG. Its objective is to conduct a regular, confidential dialogue on international politics involving leaders and think tanks from the United States and the European Union.
The European Policy Institutes Network participates in the debate about Europe’s future by publishing expert analyses, and works to improve mutual understanding through discussion of national discourses. Its members are think tanks and policy institutes from almost all the EU member-states and accession candidates.
The Forum is a closed event for selected experts from think tanks, academia, journalists and government institutions from Germany and Italy, held alternately in Berlin and Rome since 2017. It aims to exchange views on the most important topics for the current political and economic agenda of the European Union.
The German-Spanish Dialogue is conducted by SWP and its partner, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), with support from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Currently interest centres on the challenges of European integration and the European and foreign policies of Spain and Germany.
The aim of the project is to provide up-to-date information, data and analyses on cyber attacks in order to raise awareness of cyber security threats.
The Covid-19 pandemic was and continues to be an endurance test for global and European health governance. Health governance refers to all institutionalised forms of social and political coordination aimed at developing and implementing binding rules and non-binding standards on health issues, or providing collective health goods for the benefit of society.
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere (Carbon Dioxide Removal, CDR) is essential to achieving greenhouse gas neutrality in Germany, Europe and globally. A wide range of terrestrial, geological, material-based and marine CDR approaches have been proposed, and the scientific understanding of each method varies greatly.
UPTAKE aims to facilitate the sustainable upscaling of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods by developing a set of robust strategies through technical, theoretical, and practical analysis accompanied by interactive dialogue within a CDR stakeholder forum.
The research project accompanies the German government’s “climate foreign policy” strategy from its inception to its implementation.

British-German Outlook Group

The British-German Outlook Group is a yearly exchange organised by SWP together with our partner Chatham House and kindly funded by the German Foreign Office. The Outlook Group brings together officials and leading expert of both countries for an exchange on the future of Europe, British-German relations and joint foreign policy interests.
CEPS-SWP High-Level Group on bolstering EU Democracy

SWP Berlin and CEPS are joining forces to set up a High-Level Group on bolstering EU democracy to develop and disseminate policy recommendations to strengthen EU democracy, to be published within a dedicated report in September 2023.
Daimler EU-US-Program

The Daimler U.S. European Forum on Global Issues is hosted by the Brookings Institution (Washington), the Centre for European Reform (London) and the SWP, with the support of Daimler AG. Its objective is to conduct a regular, confidential dialogue on international politics involving leaders and think tanks from the United States and the European Union.
Debate on the Future of Europe

The European Policy Institutes Network participates in the debate about Europe’s future by publishing expert analyses, and works to improve mutual understanding through discussion of national discourses. Its members are think tanks and policy institutes from almost all the EU member-states and accession candidates.
Italo-German Strategic Dialogue

The Forum is a closed event for selected experts from think tanks, academia, journalists and government institutions from Germany and Italy, held alternately in Berlin and Rome since 2017. It aims to exchange views on the most important topics for the current political and economic agenda of the European Union.
German-Spanish Dialogue

The German-Spanish Dialogue is conducted by SWP and its partner, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), with support from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Currently interest centres on the challenges of European integration and the European and foreign policies of Spain and Germany.
European Repository of Cyber Incidents (EuRepoC)

The aim of the project is to provide up-to-date information, data and analyses on cyber attacks in order to raise awareness of cyber security threats.
Health governance in crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic was and continues to be an endurance test for global and European health governance. Health governance refers to all institutionalised forms of social and political coordination aimed at developing and implementing binding rules and non-binding standards on health issues, or providing collective health goods for the benefit of society.
Governance of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDRSynTra)

Removing CO2 from the atmosphere (Carbon Dioxide Removal, CDR) is essential to achieving greenhouse gas neutrality in Germany, Europe and globally. A wide range of terrestrial, geological, material-based and marine CDR approaches have been proposed, and the scientific understanding of each method varies greatly.
Upscaling of Carbon Dioxide Removal (UPTAKE)

UPTAKE aims to facilitate the sustainable upscaling of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods by developing a set of robust strategies through technical, theoretical, and practical analysis accompanied by interactive dialogue within a CDR stakeholder forum.
International Climate Policy and Multilevel Governance (Ariadne)

The research project accompanies the German government’s “climate foreign policy” strategy from its inception to its implementation.

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