Carnegie Europe Projects

Moving beyond rhetoric that calls for Brussels to face its challenges, the Europe Head-to-Head project proposes a continent-wide debate on what the EU must do to meet the moment, navigating the increasingly difficult global landscape to deliver for its citizens.

Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022, presents the EU with its biggest foreign policy challenge in three decades. The bloc has to operate outside of its comfort zone and forge a new common strategy toward the countries of its Eastern neighborhood as well as Russia.

Contemporary Georgian society is divided over questions of politics, religion, and ethnic identity. If the country is to make progress in building a European state, careful analysis and frank discussion of the many social and political issues that polarize Georgians are essential.

The Reshaping European Democracy initiative aims to analyze, debate, and help improve the state of European democracy. It takes a composite look at innovations and trends across Europe’s civil society, citizen participation, digital technology, political parties, and institutional reforms, and assesses how they are shaping the future of democracy in Europe.

In mainstream Western narratives, Ukraine is often viewed through the geopolitical prism of East-West confrontation. Carnegie’s Ukrainian Voices project aims to foster a more informed understanding of the country’s complex political and social dynamics by spotlighting Ukrainian experts’ insights that combine analysis and personal experiences.