RANGE (Rethinking Assumptions in a New Geostrategic Environment) is a crowdsourced forecasting program focused on geopolitics and the transatlantic relationship.

Together with the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Richard Grieveson (Deputy Director, wiiw) and Christian Hanelt (Senior Expert for the EU Neighbourhood and the Middle East, Bertelsmann Stiftung) present a new study entitled: “Keeping friends closer: Why the EU should address new geoeconomic realities and get its neighbours back in the fold.”

The study sets out to measure the interconnectivity between the European Union and its neighbouring countries and to compare these interconnections with those of the EU’s peers and rivals: the US, China, and Russia.

Specifically, the study deals with interconnectivity in five areas: trade, finance, technology and know-how, infrastructure and labour mobility. In doing so, the study seeks to identify and measure the extent of these interconnections and to draw out the key geoeconomic implications for the EU.

This event occurred on February 17, 2023 in the “public square” of the 2023 Munich Security Conference.

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Bertelsmann Stiftung, presents results from our latest eupinions survey.