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)
Elie Cavigneaux

Visiting Fellow

elie.cavigneaux@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- EU, Europe
- European Union
- Justice and Home Affairs in the EU
- Migration policy
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
Projects
- Upscaling of Carbon Dioxide Removal (UPTAKE)
- State of CDR Report
Leona Tenkhoff

Associate

leona.tenkhoff@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- Energy, climate, environment
- Europe
- Climate policy
- EU climate policy
Projects
- State of CDR Report
Paweł Tokarski, PhD

Senior Associate

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

Visiting Fellow

marina.vulovic@swp-berlin.org

Research Support

Max Becker, M.A.

Research Assistant

max.becker@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- EU, Europe
- Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)
- EU foreign policy
- Populism
Deborah Franke

Assistant

Deborah.Franke@swp-berlin.org
Johanna Flach

Student Assistant

johanna.flach@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- EU, Europe
Leonie Oechtering

Student Assistant

leonie.oechtering@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- Energy, climate, environment
Gabrijela Boskovic, M.A.

Information and Data Manager

gabrijela.boskovic@swp-berlin.org
Ela Grudziewska-Klick, Dipl.-Bibl.

Information and Data Manager

ela.grudziewska-klick@swp-berlin.org

SWP Publications

- Paweł Tokarski
US Stablecoin Regulation Increases Pressure on Europe
- German
The American Genius Act establishes clear rules for stablecoins. The associated risks could create difficulties for the EU – and increase the pressure to counter with a digital euro, writes Paweł Tokarski.

Point of View, 29.07.2025
- Paweł Tokarski
Stablecoin-Regulierung in den USA: Druck auf Europa wächst
- English
Mit dem sogenannten Genius Act schafft die US-Regierung klare Regeln für Stablecoins. Die damit verbundenen Risiken könnten für die EU zur Herausforderung werden – und den Druck erhöhen, mit dem digitalen Euro gegenzuhalten, meint Paweł Tokarski.

Kurz gesagt, 24.07.2025
- Marina Vulović
Nationalismus und die Studierendenproteste in Serbien

Seit Monaten demonstrieren Studierende in Serbien gegen die Regierung. Die Proteste sind vielfältig – und voller historischer Bezüge. Sie als nationalistisch einzuordnen, wird ihrer gesellschaftlichen und politischen Komplexität jedoch nicht gerecht, meint Marina Vulović.

Kurz gesagt, 23.07.2025
- Peter Becker
- Ronja Kempin
Europas Verteidigungsfähigkeit durch klare Aufgaben und Ziele stärken

Für zusätzliche Finanzen müssen zunächst die Prioritäten der EU-Sicherheit definiert werden

SWP-Aktuell 2025/A 35, 22.07.2025, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025A35
- Nicolai von Ondarza
»Kensington-Vertrag«: Deutschland und Großbritannien rücken enger zusammen

Mit dem deutsch-britischen Freundschaftsvertrag verstärken Berlin und London ihre Zusammenarbeit in unsicheren Zeiten. Das Abkommen stärkt auch das E3-Format als Schaltstelle für die europäische Sicherheit, meint Nicolai von Ondarza.

Kurz gesagt, 21.07.2025
- Jakob Bund
Hand and Glove: How Authoritarian Cyber Operations Leverage Non-state Capabilities

An Integrated Understanding of Both Is Required to Recalibrate Political and Legal Responses

SWP Comment 2025/C 30, 26.06.2025, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025C30

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External publications

- Johanna Flach
- Nicolai von Ondarza
A tale of three partnerships

in: UK in a Changing Europe, 06.08.2025
- Nicolai von Ondarza
Europe’s humiliation is a comms strategy – and that’s the problem

Ostentatious humiliation may bring Europe some breathing space in the short term. But that will be worthles unless we effectively and jointly reduce dependency on the US.

in: Euractiv.com, 05.08.2025
- Raphael Bossong
Migrationssteuerung: „Wenn man die meisten irregulären Asylbewerber abschrecken wollte, müsste man drastisch werden“

Interview von Ricarda Breyton, in: Welt.de, 03.08.2025 (Bezahlschranke)
- Max Becker
- Nicolai von Ondarza
A Fluid Parliament: Changes in the Composition of EP Political Groups Ahead and After the 2024 Elections

in: Michael Kaeding, Manuel Müller, Alexander Hoppe (eds), The 2024 European Parliament Elections. The Future of Europe, pp 37–46, Springer Cham, July 2025

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-89455-8_4
- Kai-Olaf Lang
Schutz der EU-Außengrenzen: Warum Innenminister Dobrindts Polen-Besuch so wichtig ist

Interview von Florian Zelt, in: SWR Aktuell, Südwestrundfunk, 21.07.2025
- Raphael Bossong
Dobrindts Migrationsgipfel

Interview von Tobias Oelmaier, in: Das war der Tag, Deutschlandfunk, 18.07.2025

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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.
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.
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.
The »State of Carbon Dioxide Removal« report is a global, independent scientific assessment of carbon dioxide removal research, development, demonstration, deployment, perceptions, scenarios and policymaking.

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.
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.
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.
State of CDR Report

The »State of Carbon Dioxide Removal« report is a global, independent scientific assessment of carbon dioxide removal research, development, demonstration, deployment, perceptions, scenarios and policymaking.

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