Jeske van Seters
Four institutes joined forces to call for new beginnings in European Development Cooperation
Jeske van Seters | 24 February 2025
The October 2009 issue of The Broker featured an opinion piece from 3 current directors and 1 former director of leading European development institutes that formed the start for this discussion blog. The 4 institutions – DIE based in Bonn, ECDPM…
read moreEU change–makers discussing the implications of a ratified Lisbon Treaty for the EU’s external action architecture
Mikaela Gavas , Jeske van Seters | 28 October 2025
At Ermonville in December 2008 and in London in April 2009, a group of around 50 politicians, policy-makers and analysts gathered to discuss Europe’s role in development and to think through practical and effective operational structures. As a fol…
read moreRatifying Lisbon: what could it mean for ‘the field’?
Jeske van Seters , Niels Keijzer | 01 October 2025
As is normal to any prospective analysis, considering the future role of Europe in the world is accompanied by a large degree of both possibilities and uncertainty. The consequences of the results of the second Irish referendum notwithstanding, Eu…
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