Jacob Kirkegaard
Former Senior FellowJacob Kirkegaard is a former Senior Fellow at GMF.
Media Mentions
European elections were supposed to be the far right’s day. But the center held.
Europe is set to pick a new Parliament. Here’s why the far right will likely do well.
To EU’s leaders, poison released by David Cameron’s Brexit blunder has lost its sting
The EU's alternative to the Chinese Silk Road seeks its space in Latin America after the Celac summit [Translated from Spanish]
Jacob Kirkegaard, DW, EU deal to reduce consumption highlights divisions within the bloc
Jacob Kirkegaard, NYTimes, Germany Hopes to Outrace a Russian Gas Cutoff and Bone Cold Winter
Jacob Kirkegaard, SCMP, Ukraine war propels ‘multilateral momentum’ on China-focused ‘Nato for trade’, experts say
Jacob Kirkegaard, Naftemporiki, 1 trillion The cost of the war for world GDP - The estimates of 7 international actors
Jacob Kirkegaard, NYT, Officials Say Russian Art, Seized by Finns, Should Return Home
Jacob Kirkegaard, DW, EU parliament demands end to 'golden passports' for Russians
Jacob Kirkegaard, The Guardian, Ukraine refugees given right to live in EU for three years
Jacob Kirkegaard, The Guardian, Ukraine conflict leads EU to rid itself of Russian sacred cows
Jacob Kirkegaard, The Guardian, Europe’s soaring gas prices: does Russia hold solution to crisis?
Featured Work
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June 19, 2024
The European Parliament election on June 6-9 saw overall gains for right-of-center parties without a feared surge toward the far right. Across...
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June 4, 2024
More than half of Ukraine’s power production capacity has been damaged by Russia since February 2022. Reconstruction is already underway, but to meet...
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April 12, 2024
The scale of the challenges has pushed the EU Commission to identify what it will take for the bloc to remain competitive....
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March 6, 2024
Immigration is once again at the top of many European voters’ agenda in this parliamentary election year. EU policymakers are racing to reform asylum...
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May 22, 2023
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February 16, 2023
Anniversaries should be celebratory, but some are painful remembrances of events that elicited profound change. ...
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February 1, 2023
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October 13, 2022
With Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Kherson offensives potentially shortening the war, the challenge of the country’s reconstruction has come to the fore,...
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April 19, 2022
The return of wars of annihilation in Europe with Russia’s brutal assault on Ukraine poses life-and-death questions for the European Union, its...
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March 3, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been met with a unified Western response and an escalating set of powerful economic sanctions. ...
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June 15, 2021
The message seems to have been heard loud and clear, with European Council President Charles Michel saying America is back on "the global scene"....
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June 3, 2021
In an interview for German magazine CAPITAL, GMF Senior Fellow Jacob Kirkegaard discussed U.S. President Joe Biden’s move to withdraw drilling rights...
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April 30, 2021
In an interview for German magazine CAPITAL, GMF Senior Fellow Jacob Kirkegaard discussed U.S. President Joe Biden’s 100 days in office. He noted that...
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April 14, 2021
Johnson & Johnson’s decision to temporarily suspend distribution to the European Union while it conducts a review on blood clots adds pressure on...
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February 24, 2021
GMF Senior Fellow Jacob Kirkegaard sat down for an interview with Belgian Public Broadcaster VRT for their “Terzake” show to discuss the vaccine...
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January 29, 2021
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January 28, 2021
The European Union is facing an accelerating health, economic, and political crisis because of the continent’s persistent failure to vaccinate its...
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October 16, 2020
The European Covid-19 policy response has created the largest commonly funded European crisis fighting tools in EU history....
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This is part of our series on the policy implications of the 2020 U.S. elections for U.S....
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The election of Joe Biden will put a committed transatlanticist in the White House. No longer viewed as a hostile entity, the European Union can...