European Resilience
European Resilience sits within our Drivers of Instability & Effects on our Democracies program, focusing on exploring the governance challenges facing European democratic institutions in changing geopolitical, environmental, and technological circumstances.
Parlement européen Strasbourg, France by Frederic Köberl (@internetztube)
Europe is undergoing a period of rapid and consequential institutional transformation, from both internal and external systemic pressures. Decisions about defence integration, data sovereignty, space governance, and public communication are being made - and need to be made - in shifting geopolitical, technological and systemic circumstances, and at a pace that outstrips the established norms of democratic deliberation. The legitimacy of these decisions - and the resilience of the institutions making them - is not guaranteed.
GIE Foundation's European Resilience program examines the governance challenges facing European democratic institutions across interconnected domains: How European institutions sustain democratic legitimacy and public trust while responding to civilisational pressures that demand rapid, coordinated action. It looks at where governance is working, where it is failing, and where targeted policy intervention can make a material difference to stability and resilience in Europe.
This program is led by Davide E. Iannace, in collaboration with Sara Pane, Maia Sacchetto, and Kristina Bilimenko.
Orbit Without Order: The Costs of Fragmented Space Governance
The rules governing outer space were written for a world of state actors and Cold War rivalry. They have not kept pace with technological acceleration and the economic, political and international instability of the modern era. This Commentary examines how the fragmentation of space governance - from the Artemis Accords to the rise of private mega-constellations - is producing strategic dependencies and democratic accountability gaps that European institutions are only beginning to reckon with - and where and how Europe needs to shore up its policy on space governance.