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In Prague, ICE took part in the Eurodebate of the Economic Journal, the portal Justicie and the Medical Journal, focusing on hot topics related to the future of Europe, under the title: Agenda for the new European Parliament and European Commission. The debate was attended by current and former high-ranking representatives of the Czech public and private sphere, among them Jaroslav Bžoch, Vice-Chairman of the Foreign and European Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, and Brigadier General Prof. Ing. Bohuslav Přikryl, PhD, Vice President of CSG Aerospace. The discussion focused on three important aspects that will certainly be high on the agenda of the future EC and EP: migration and the protection of the EU’s external borders, EU collective defence and the future of the European defence industry, as well as the Green Deal and its impact on the EU’s competitiveness..

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Environmental Changes and Migration: Bridging Disciplines for a New Research Agenda

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The Iran Conflict and European Energy Security: Two Months In

Russia is the biggest winner, Beijing is the broker. Europe has a small political window opened by Hungary’s election and has yet to build the architecture to use it. Institute for Central Europe — Mini-Brief | 12 May 2026 On 4 March, the first ICE brief on the Iran conflict identified five risks to European […]

When transparency becomes a vulnerability

A new ICE brief by our colleague Miro Sedlák raises a provocative but timely question: has @NATO’s hard‑won predictability become too easy to read? Drawing lessons from recent exercises, the piece shows how standardisation and openness – once stabilising strengths – can now generate operational blind spots. The piece is an important contribution to a growing […]

Europe’s Defence Industrial Awakening: The Governance Gap Behind the Spending Surge

The EU has built a rulebook for defence-industrial coordination and the first tranche of money to start funding the factories. Whether member states use either at the scale the moment requires is the question this brief leaves open. Institute for Central Europe — Policy Mini Brief | April 2026   Executive Summary On 30 March […]

The Iran Conflict and European Energy Security: One Month In

The post-Russia energy architecture was never post-geopolitical. It was just geopolitical in a different direction. Institute for Central Europe — Mini-Brief | 30 March 2026 On 4 March, five days into the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ICE published an assessment of the conflict’s energy implications for Europe. The brief identified five risks: commercial paralysis of […]

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“Today, no country in Europe can pretend that it can solve problems on its own. Every important issue in Slovakia has a European context. I believe that ICE activities will be a good contribution to understanding and unity in Europe. I have known Martin for many years and I know how much he cares about Europe being strong in terms of security and Slovakia being a stable and reliable part of it.“

Miroslav Lajčák – EU Special Representative for the Serbia-Kosovo Dialogue, former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

“With every European summit nowadays looking like a Shakespearean tragedy, bridging the gap between Western, Central and Eastern Europe is becoming a question of the survival of the European Union. In this cheerless context, the birth of the ICE is more welcome than ever. The Institute brings exactly what the current intellectual and political debates in Europe desperately need: tools and materials to promote better understanding across the continent.”

François Gemenne – Director of the Hugo Research Centre at the University of Liege and professor at the Institute of Political Science in Paris

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