EPC experts: Looking ahead to the EU leader's retreat

Feb 11, 2026
EPC ROUND-UP
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Elizabeth Kuiper
Associate Director and Head of the Health and Societal Resilience Programme (HSR)
Corina Stratulat
Associate Director and Head of European Politics and Institutions Programme
Liza Saris
Policy Analyst and Project Manager
Paweł Świeboda
Senior Visiting Fellow
Varg Folkman
Policy Analyst
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In a world of geoeconomic fragmentation, economic coercion and intensifying US-China competition, Europe faces hard choices.

At Alden Biesen, leaders will debate reducing strategic dependencies, countering economic coercion, scaling EU firms, and advancing a Savings and Investment Union in a rapidly shifting geoeconomic landscape.

Ahead of the meeting, European Policy Centre analysts assess what this means for EU competitiveness, strategic autonomy and global positioning.

With Mario Draghi and Enrico Letta shaping the debate, can the retreat deliver real momentum before the March European Council?

Read EPC experts’ takes below:

 

 

 

 

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