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About ESPAS
The European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) provides a framework for cooperation and consultation at administrative level between the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, and the European External Action Service, with the European Investment Bank, the Committee of the Regions, the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Union Institute for Security Studies and the European Court of Auditors as observers, to work together on medium and long-term trends facing or relating to the European Union.
Shaping Europe's future:
Global trends and strategic choices
European Foresight Days
18-19 November 2021 Live streaming
More information2021 ESPAS Annual Conference
Shaping Europe's future:
Global trends and strategic choices
The 2021 ESPAS annual conference will be held - virtually - on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 November, with successive days hosted by the European Commission and European Parliament.
We will meet again this year with the coronavirus pandemic still seriously disrupting the lives of citizens around the world. This crisis has not only shone a light on our collective lack of preparedness for existential threats or shocks, but revealed and indeed accentuated fault-lines in both the international community and our own domestic societies. It is forcing us to think more intensively about the challenges and choices that are likely to confront Europe in coming years and about how best to make the transition to the kind of future we would like to see.
ESPAS Conference, 18-19 November 2020
Thinking about the Future: Europe's Road to 2030
CORONAVIRUS AND KEY GLOBAL TRENDS
Moderator: Christian Leffler
AMERICA AND TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS
Madeleine Albright
Former US Secretary of State
FORESIGHT AND THE FUTURE
Moderator: Simonetta Cook
Latest Foresight publications
- European Commission 2021 Strategic foresight report : The EU’s capacity and freedom to act
- Joint Research Centre (JRC)’s Science for policy report : ‘Shaping & securing the EU’s Open Strategic Autonomy by 2040 and beyond’
- ESPAS report 2019 : Global Trends to 2030
About ESPAS
An Inter-institutional EU Project
ESPAS provides a framework for cooperation and consultation at administrative level to work together on medium and long-term trends facing or relating to the European Union.
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