GEO-POWER-EU Holds 3rd Consortium and General Assembly Meeting in Chișinău

GEO-POWER-EU Holds 3rd Consortium and General Assembly Meeting in Chișinău

On June 2–3, the GEO-POWER-EU consortium held its third in-person Consortium and General Assembly meeting in Chișinău, Moldova, hosted by project partner IDIS “Viitorul”, to discuss ongoing progress and next steps across all project activities.

The meetings were kicked off by Liubomir Chiriac (Executive Director, IDIS “Viitorul”) and Prof. Nikolaos Tzifakis (Coordinator, GEO-POWER-EU & Professor, University of the Peloponnese), who set the tone and outlined key priorities for the next phase of the project. Over the two days, partners engaged in substantive discussions across the project’s work packages, covering progress on EU enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood research, advances in geopolitical competition and strategic autonomy analysis, the development of the EU Neighbourhood policy framework, dissemination and exploitation planning, and financial coordination. A key part of the agenda was the strategic foresight workshop conducted by VE Insight, which brought together consortium partners in four working groups to map geopolitical scenarios for the EU candidate region, covering the Western Balkans and Associated Trio countries for the 2026–2031 period. The exercise was framed through the lens of five major external actors: the EU, the US, China, Russia, and Türkiye. Participants identified the end-state of the war in Ukraine, the 2028 US electoral cycle, and the credibility of EU enlargement as key inflection points shaping whether the region drifts, integrates, or fragments.

The meetings concluded with a shared commitment to further advance the project’s research, coordination, and dissemination activities in the next phase.