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.

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

November 8, 2022 - 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 brainwaves.

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.

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.

November 3, 2025 - The idea was introduced by French president Emmanuel Macron in a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on May 9. The initiative was initially met with skepticism before rapidly gaining traction as its intentions were clarified.

1 week 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 ...

May 16, 2023 - The arrival of a new kid on the block — Emmanuel Macron’s European Political Community (EPC) — has forced the Strasbourg-based Council to defend its patch.

August 1, 2022 - That explains why there has been some ambiguity about what kind of body the EPC would be and what it would do. Emmanuel Macron called for a ‘European Political Community’ (EPC), a club to foster co-operation between the EU and its neighbours.

October 17, 2023 - At its core, the EPC is an audacious initiative piloted by French President Emmanuel Macron. It was Macron’s vision to inaugurate this particular forum, conceived in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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 ...

January 22, 2026 - The European Political Community (EPC) has been derided as a deceptive ploy to sideline the enlargement process, or simply a characteristically grandiose but vague proposal coming from the French. What should it be?

Shortly after his re-election, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a new initiative, the European Political Community (EPC), in a speech to the European Parliament highlighting the urgent need for a faster method of integration.

April 29, 2024 - Europe is and should ‘never be the vassal of the US’, Macron argued. Moreover, Macron mentions the European Political Community (EPC), one of his flagship initiatives launched in 2022, as the appropriate instance to build this ...

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, ...

July 18, 2022 - In his speech at the closing ceremony ... map of the European Continent. He talked about the creation of a new "European Political Community" (EPC) that would include both EU members and non-member states....

July 16, 2024 - According to Macron, the EPC is meant to establish ‘a new space for political cooperation, security and cooperation in the fields of energy, transport, investment, infrastructures the movement of people and in particular our youth’ across Europe, including EU and non-EU countries.