EU Institute for Security Studies - EUISS

📢 : The EUISS is hiring! Join our team in as a Senior Policy Analyst focusing on hybrid threats and their implications for EU foreign, security and defence policy.

⏳ Edit: ** Deadline extended to 3 July 12:00 CEST**
📌 Read more on the role and apply through our website: https://www.iss.europa.eu/about-us/opportunities/senior-policy-analyst-hybrid-threats
📅 Start date: September 2026
💼 Contract: 3 years, renewable for up to 2 further years

Despite Russian pressure, pro-EU PM Nikol Pashinyan won Armenia’s parliamentary election. But without a constitutional majority, the peace process with Azerbaijan remains fragile & will require sustained EU engagement, writes Ondrej Ditrych.

Read the commentary: shorturl.at/SfShp

While Western allies grapple with growing divisions, a China-led coalition seeks to reshape the international order.

The G7 summit in Évian comes at a pivotal moment.

Can the US and its allies overcome their divisions and forge a common strategic response?

Alice Ekman explains ➡️ shorturl.at/EEnkC

France's seizure of Russian-linked oil tanker is another example of a harder stance against Moscow's shadow fleet.

Russia shadow fleet serves a dual purpose: sustaining its economic lifeline, while serving as a tool of hybrid warfare against Western powers.

🛢️The shadow fleet facilitates a parallel oil trading system, allowing Russia to remain a major oil exporter and to operate outside the traditional, Western-dominated global market structure.

⚡ Russia is also weaponising the fleet's operations to carry out hybrid attacks on European critical infrastructure, severing energy and telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea.

⚠️ Shadow fleet vessels are typically old, leaky and uninsured. The risk of accidents is high and it's only a matter of time before a major environmental disaster occurs in European waters.

In 'Unpower Russia' Caspar Hobhouse calls on the EU to intensify efforts to disrupt this key instrument of Russia's war economy & hybrid warfare.

Read the analysis ➡️ shorturl.at/sDE4n