October 16, 2023 - Often characterised as a European UN General Assembly, a marketplace for ideas and unscripted speed-dating between leaders of nearly 50 countries and four EU bodies, the European Political Community (EPC) is increasingly rudderless and unable to meet expectations. President Macron’s brainchild, the EPC was inaugurated one year ago during a summit at Prague Castle to serve as a photo opportunity to signal a Europe-wide rejection of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

October 6, 2022 - Besides the 27 member states of ... so-called "EU+" gathering. The brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron, the EPC serves as a platform for political coordination for European countries....

October 6, 2022 - Besides the 27 member states of ... The brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron, the EPC serves as a platform for political coordination for European countries....

July 18, 2024 - The brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron in 2022, shortly after Russia’s full-scale attack of its neighbor, it was meant to bring the rest of Europe closer politically -- “strategic intimacy,” as Macron first put it.

July 8, 2024 - The EPC is seen as the brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron.

October 1, 2024 - Launched in 2022, the ECP was the brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron, meant to provide a platform for political dialogue and cooperation while including countries aspiring to join the EU and those happy remaining outside the bloc.

May 19, 2025 - This week more than 45 leaders will gather under his leadership in Blenheim Palace for the fourth meeting of the European Political Community (EPC). The EPC summit is the brainchild of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who called for the ...

PARIS, Oct 3 (Reuters) – UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s decision to join the inaugural summit of a pan-European grouping this week has given a boost to the initiative, a brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron that some have written off already as just another talking shop.

October 3, 2022 - PARIS, Oct 3 (Reuters) - UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's decision to join the inaugural summit of a pan-European grouping this week has given a boost to the initiative, a brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron that some have written off ...

October 6, 2022 - The summit is the brainchild of Macron, who hopes it can bring together European nations from within and outside the EU.

October 6, 2022 - A brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron, the EPC brings together the 27 member states of the European Union and 17 other countries

These would-be members needed to be offered something other than accession that would deliver them real benefits, quickly. Some in Paris saw the EPC as an alternative to enlargement while others thought it could be complementary. Hence Macron’s words on May 9th were ambiguous: “joining [the EPC] would not prejudge future accession to the EU necessarily”.

July 16, 2024 - The EPC was the brainchild of Emmanuel Macron, the French President, who sought to create a wider circle of European allies in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

July 11, 2024 - The EPC was Macron’s brainchild.

November 3, 2025 - A1: The idea for an EPC was not entirely new. In 1989, late French president Francois Mitterrand first envisioned a post-Cold War forum that could convene European Economic Community members (a precursor to the European Union), Russia, and central and Eastern European countries, but the idea failed to garner enough support. President Macron since Brexit has been exploring ways to bring the United Kingdom back to the table to discuss common security issues for the continent.

July 20, 2024 - The grouping was the brainchild of Macron, who oversaw its first meeting in Prague in 2022. He designed the gathering as an informal platform to discuss shared concerns without the need for black and white deals or statements at the end: a kind ...

No longer would nations in Europe’s periphery wait decades to know if membership was a reality, and if so when. However, the EPC cannot and should not create a two-tiered Europe. Macron’s initiative bears a striking resemblance to a similar proposal by François Mitterrand.

Moreover, Macron mentions the European Political Community (EPC), one of his flagship initiatives launched in 2022, as the appropriate instance to build this new security paradigm.

The EPC, the brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron, was introduced without prior consensus among European leaders.

October 7, 2025 - The 47 EPC participating states are home to 689.5 million people, constitute 8.7 percent of the world's population and represent about 23.5 percent of the global GDP. The European Political Community was proposed by the French president Emmanuel ...