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Comment by Justinas Lingevicius, Charlemagne Prize Academy Fellow 2021/22

The war in Ukraine reveals the folly of overly relying on the United States for defense. A perspective by Vincent-Immanuel Herr and Martin Speer published at The Washington Post on May 18, 2022.

Have a look at the new Charlemagne Prize Academy Report - On the Future of the Union! 

In recognition of their courageous and encouraging efforts to fight against brutal state despotism, torture, oppression and the violation of basic human rights by an authoritarian regime – and to campaign for democracy, freedom and the rule of law, the Board of Directors of the Society for...

On Thursday, 30 September 2021, we'll host the third edition of our Karlspreis Europa Summit, which is organised in cooperation with the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia. Join us live or virtually in Aachen!

The damages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in all aspects of life are far-reaching, multifaceted, and incalculable. The present policy paper comes in support of demands for increased economic resilience and argues that shortened – petit – supply chains that stretch from Berlin...

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the ever-increasing need for data flows within the EU and across sectors for economic and health recovery. Likewise, the European Strategy for Data, has outlined plans to develop an agile EU data economy, including the launch of Common European Data Spaces...

Policy Brief by Iulian Romanyshyn, Fellow of the Charlemagne Prize Academy and the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the University of Bonn. 

Read the full article written by our Fellow Iulian Romanyshyn and published by euobserver!

RELAY is a Jean Monnet project that aims at discussing the European Commission’s political guidelines and work programme with a wide and diverse array of stakeholders. Stakeholders will be able to provide input through a series of conferences, workshops, and working papers. At the end...

Read and download the Academy's annual report here!

A virtual conference on November 13th The Karlspreis Europa Summit 2020, organized in cooperation with the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, aimed to provide a forum for vital and lively debates between practioners from the realms of politics, science, economics, media, society...

Seeking for a ‘fresh start’, the European Commission is working on a new Pact on Migration and Asylum. Among other issues, the future of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is at stake. For a genuine ‘fresh start’ in asylum policy, our Fellow Marie Walter-Franke -...

Study by Federico Fabbrini, at the request of the AFCO Committee: A Political Compact for a More Democratic and Effective Union?

Happy Birthday! The Charlemagne Prize turned 70 years in 2020!

Due to the current Corona-situation, all anniversary celebrations had to be cancelled to decrease the spread of the virus. 

The Charlemagne Prize Foundation organized a Breakfast Discussion at the Munich Security Conference 2020, aiming to dive deeper into the discussion on current reform proposals presented by the European Commission. The keynote speakers were Margaritis Schinas, Vice President of the European...

The Charlemagne Prize Academy was officially kicked-off during a Karlspreis Europa Summit on November 14th, organized in cooperation with the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia. Next to various discussions on the key issues of Europe's future, such as security, sustainability, social...

November 5th, 2019: The Launch of the Charlemagne Prize Academy is officially launched at a press conference in Düsseldorf, presented by the Minister President of the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, the Minister of State for International Cultural Policy at the...

The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen is the oldest and best-known prize awarded for work done in the service of European unification. The Academy will therefore tie on a high-level Network, just expanded by our laureate 2019: Antonió Guterres.