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Nicoletta Pirozzi


Nicoletta Pirozzi is head of the EU programme and institutional-relations manager at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), specialising in EU politics and institutions, Italian foreign policy and international security. She is president of MondoDem, a progressive foreign-policy network, and a founding member of ProgressiveActs.

Nicoletta Pirozzi

EU-Africa relations need a new strategy

Nicoletta Pirozzi 12th December 2022

Deeper and more systemic relations between the European Union and Africa, Nicoletta Pirozzi writes, would benefit both continents.

Realising Europe’s geopolitical vocation

Nicoletta Pirozzi 14th October 2022

Can the European Political Community be the backbone of a new European security architecture? Nicoletta Pirozzi asks.

EU foreign & security policy: flexibility and leadership

Nicoletta Pirozzi 4th July 2022

Nicoletta Pirozzi argues that to mitigate its foreign policy dysfunctionalities the EU needs to end the unanimity requirement.

Has the war in Ukraine made the EU a geopolitical actor?

Nicoletta Pirozzi 2nd May 2022

Suddenly, Nicoletta Pirozzi writes, the EU’s ‘geopolitical’ claims have become essential, not aspirational.

Democracy and security in the EU’s neighbourhood

Nicoletta Pirozzi 28th February 2022

Nicoletta Pirozzi opens a Social Europe column by sketching the political vision the EU must hold out to its neighbours such as Ukraine.

Grassroots online support and progressive political innovation

Nicoletta Pirozzi 15th May 2019

There is a widespread sense of a crisis of representation in Europe. Can a platform for crowdfunding and volunteering support political innovation?

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