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

The EPC is the brainchild of French President Macron in direct response to the Russian war in Ukraine. He introduced the idea on 9 May 2022 in his speech celebrating the end of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), one of his other ...

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

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.

What You Need To Know: On June ... of French President Emmanuel Macron, was launched last year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine as an intergovernmental forum for political discussions on the future of Europe....

March 24, 2023 - As the Prime Minister moves his focus to foreign policy, he should beware those bearing gifts, says John Keiger. President Macron's brainchild, the European Political Community, could, despite Brexit, lead to ever closer European control.

The European Political Community (EPC) is Europe’s newest political forum. The EPC is the brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron. It was born in October 2022 in Prague, with forty-three European leaders taking part in its inaugural summit.

May 16, 2023 - This week’s Council of Europe summit was hastily arranged for a date just a couple weeks ahead of the second meeting of the EPC, which will see 47 political leaders gather at a castle near Chișinău in Moldova on June 1. ... Some of those involved with the Council are unimpressed with Macron’s diplomatic efforts.

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.

5 days ago - 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 Macron at the Conference on the Future of Europe ...

October 6, 2022 - The ECP was France's President Emmanuel Macron 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.

August 1, 2022 - Speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on May 9th, Emmanuel Macron called for a ‘European Political Community’ (EPC), a club to foster co-operation between the EU and its neighbours.

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 ...

October 8, 2024 - This alone gave value to this new platform, a brainchild of French president Emmanuel Macron in 2022, with the stated goal of building “strategic intimacy” among Europeans through informal and inclusive discussions on shared challenges for ...

May 26, 2023 - On May 9, 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron suggested the idea of the EPC, arguing that "the European Union cannot be the only means of structuring the continent," in the face of Moscow's expansionism, with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, ...

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.

May 5, 2026 - After all, the EPC is a baby of his own: the loose grouping of all European states bar Russia and Belarus was conceived by Macron himself in 2022 in the aftermath of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.