National dialogues with partners in European countries

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. It is held alternately in Berlin and London.

Project Lead: Nicolai von Ondarza

German-Irish Joint Vision Forum

Since 2018, the SWP and the Institute for International and European Affairs have been bringing together experts from think tanks and foreign ministries in Germany and Ireland for the German-Irish Joint Vision Forum. The forum provides a platform for discussing issues relating to European integration, German-Irish relations and the two countries' shared foreign policy interests. The annual event, funded by the Federal Foreign Office, alternates between Berlin and Dublin.

Project Lead: Nicolai von Ondarza

German-Spanish Dialogue

The German-Spanish Dialogue is run in conjunction with our Spanish partner CIDOB and is held alternately in Berlin and Barcelona or Madrid. The focus is on current challenges in European integration and the European and foreign policy of Spain and Germany. The participants include researchers, members of parliament, civil servants and media representatives from both countries.

Project Lead: Nicolai von Ondarza

Italian-German Strategic Dialogue

The dialogue forum is a closed event organised jointly with the leading Italian think tank IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali) and attended by high-ranking representatives from business, government and think tanks, as well as journalists from Germany and Italy. It has been held alternately in Berlin and Rome since 2016. The aim is to promote the exchange of views on the most important issues on the European Union's current political and economic agenda.

Until 2018, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation was the SWP and IAI's partner in Rome, and from 2019 to 2021, this role was taken over by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES). Since 2022, the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS) in Rome has been our cooperation partner.

Project Lead: Paweł Tokarski