The European Archipelago: Rebranding the Strategic Significance of EU Overseas Countries and Territories. ZEI Discussion Paper C255 2019

Kühnhardt, Ludger (2019) The European Archipelago: Rebranding the Strategic Significance of EU Overseas Countries and Territories. ZEI Discussion Paper C255 2019. [Discussion Paper]

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Abstract

On June 28, 2018, the morning before he attended yet another European Council meeting dealing with the highly complex and extensively divisive migration agenda and launching an EU intervention initiative, French President Emmanuel Macron outlined his view of France as a global archipelago. Without really being noticed by German (or outside of France any other European) media, he presented the “Overseas Blue Book” (“livre bleu outre-mer“) in which the overseas policy of his government is outlined. After several months of consultation with contributions of 26,000 of the more than 2.7 million citizens in the French overseas territories and hundreds of public workshops, the “Overseas Blue Book” mentions 28 topics constituting the French government’s road map on overseas matters.

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