GlobalFocus Center

📍At Yerevan Dialogue 2026, GlobalFocus Center will participate in two panels.
🟦 Black Sea Security and Connectivity in an Evolving Euro-Atlantic Environment
Together with the The German Marshall Fund of the United States, we’ll be exploring how shifting security dynamics in the Black Sea are increasingly linked to regional connectivity, infrastructure development, and strategic competition—with implications extending well beyond the region.
🟦 From Connectivity to Opportunity: Boosting EU–Armenia Trade and Investment
Oana Popescu Zamfir will join the president of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan. Focusing on Armenia’s growing role as a regional hub, this discussion will examine how connectivity, reforms, and EU alignment can translate into concrete trade and investment opportunities.
Join us in Yerevan to be part of the conversation.🔗

Europe can no longer afford to regard the Sea as a distant periphery. It has become both a frontline and a backbone of connectivity, where Europe’s economic security, democratic resilience, and geopolitical credibility converge.

The EU Strategic Approach to the Black Sea and the foreseen Hub, which Romania has offered to host in the port city of can be instrumental in moving from conceptual framework to effective implementation.

The Black Sea Roundtable 'Securing the Black Sea:
Translating Strategy into Action', convened last month in Constanta by the GlobalFocus Center with the support of its partners*, gathered senior policymakers, defence and foreign affairs officials, and representatives, academics, think-tankers and private-sector experts to discuss the transformation of the EU Black Sea Strategic Approach from a vision into a framework of action.

The full findings and policy recommendations are available in the report: https://www.global-focus.eu/2025/10/from-strategy-to-action-implementing-the-eu-black-sea-strategic-approach/

* The German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Romania, Orbotix Industries, the ‘Mircea cel Bătrân’ Naval Academy, the Center for Information and Documentation on NATO in Moldova, the Ministerul Afacerilor Externe/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania, Forțele Navale Române, Primăria Constanța

From Strategy to Action: Implementing the EU Black Sea Strategic Approach - GlobalFocus GlobalFocus Center, in partnership with the German Marshall Fund, and with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Orbotix Industries and the Naval Academy in Constanta...