The EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy will be headed by a new director from October 1st. Zdeněk Beránek, who has worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as Deputy Ambassador in Washington, has been appointed the new Director. After seven years, he replaces Vladimír Bartovic, who has been with the Institute since 1999. Also, current Deputy Director Martin Vokálek will be in a new position as Executive Director.

Our intern Agathe Helluin has written a Policy Brief on "A New Start on Migration": this is how the European Commission described the new pact on migration and asylum presented at the 2020 State of the Union speech in September. This new pact undoubtedly captures the expectation that the EU will fully reshape its migration policy by recognising its limits and shortcomings.

In the next Policy Paper, Lucie Vinařská writes about what changes in the fight against climate change may be brought about by the upcoming parliamentary elections, which will take place this autumn both in the Czech Republic and in neighbouring Germany.

We invite you to the next debate in the series "What EU do we want to have in 2025?" on the European Defence. The debate will take place on Wednesday 8 September from 17:30 to 19:00.

EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy is looking for a Head of Decarbonisation of Industry. For more information, including requirements, please see the attached PDF. Applications will be accepted until 23 September.

In her blog article, our intern Agathe Helluin focuses on Czech politics, particularly on Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and his style of political campaigning, which includes topics such as migration.

The Think Visegrad platform, which brings together think tanks from the Visegrad countries, including the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, is offering 8 visiting fellowships to non-Visegrad expert fellows for the period Autumn/Winter of 2021. The duration of fellowships varies from 6 to 8 weeks (based on agreement with the hosting institute).

We would like to invite you to another debate from the series "What EU do we want to have in 2025?" This time we will discuss the topic of European Trade Policy. The debate will take place on Thursday, 17 June 2021 from 17:30.

We invite you to the EU debate ± on the European foreign policy in the Belarusian context. The debate is organized with the support of Jean Monnet Chair TeDEUSS - Teaching and debating EU small states' security at FSV UK and co-financed by the European Union's Europe for Citizens program.

We cordially invite you to the Opening Ceremony of the Conference on the Future of Europe! Vladimír Bartovic, director of our institute, will also speak among 10 personalities who will answer 10 questions about the future of Europe from 10 different groups of Czech groups of citizens.

In another Policy Paper, this time from Lucie Vinařská, who has long been dealing with the Czech Republic's approach to environmental protection in the EU, we present a new climate and energy package called Fit for 55, which aims to virtually reduce emissions to 55% compared to 1990.

We would like to invite you to another debate from the series "What EU do we want to have in 2025?" This time we will discuss the topic of European Health Union. The debate will take place on Monday, 31 May 2021 from 17:30.