OTT Talks returns with co-hosts Enrique Mendizabal and Goran Buldioski, in conversation with Nathalie Tocci, Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome and former adviser to the EU High Representative.
Nathalie likens today’s European context to “One Battle After Another,” describing interconnected external and internal challenges, from the war in Ukraine and wider conflicts to threats to liberal democracy, including pressures from Putin’s Russia, Trump’s America, and Europe’s own nationalist-populist forces. She reflects on how foreign policy and think tank work have shifted since 1999 toward a more crowded, public, less specialised space, arguing impact comes more from framing questions than issuing recommendations.
Nathalie contrasts national and EU-level influence, outlines think tank leadership priorities—strategy, funding, management, mentoring, and visibility—and discusses shrinking core funding alongside well-endowed illiberal institutions.
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