Christian M. Bissinger holds a B.A. from Sciences Po Paris (FR) and a M.Sc. in European Affairs from Lund University (SE) and is a candidate in European Political and Governance Studies at the College of Europe. His research focuses on EU CFSP/CSDP, with emphasis on EU economic statecraft, inter-institutional cooperation, European Party Politics and defence governance. With prior commitments and professional experiences in Franco-German and European contexts, he is involved in YATA Sweden.
Against the backdrop of geopolitical fragmentation and weaponised interdependence, this policy brief examines how the EU aims to reconcile open markets with the imperatives of economic security, arguing that FDI screening and ‘Buy European preference’ form a dual-pronged approach towards (open) s…
How can the EU design digital infrastructure ensuring both security and civil rights for times of peace and crisis? The answer lies in resilience by design, through frameworks like the EUDI Wallet, NIS2 Directive, and the IEA, which create distributed, interoperable system. This proactive archite…
Based on a “Coalition of the Willing” approach, this brief considers legal and institutional avenues that enable to bypass the unanimity trap within the Council of the EU to ultimately ensure the long-term support for Ukraine. By elaborating on the repurposing the immobilised Russian State assets…
