On 14th-16th October, FES was delighted to welcome a delegation of members of both Houses of Parliament to Berlin for the annual UK-German Parliamentary Dialogue.

In September 2025, Programme Manager Anna Kraft led an FES Ireland housing delegation of Labour Party politicians and trade union representatives to Vienna to study the city’s social housing model.

In July 2025 the FES UK co-organised a delegation programme to Berlin, Brandenburg and North-Rhine Westphalia together with colleagues from the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Cymru.

The EU and UK are entering a new phase of cooperation after years of post-Brexit tension. Russia’s war in Ukraine has highlighted their shared security challenges and the need for closer coordination. While the UK won’t rejoin the single market, the new government is prioritizing a diplomatic reset…

As in previous years the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung London (FES) and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) collaborated again on the annual German-British dialogue on Security and Defence Policies. In face of the Russian war against Ukraine the spirit of collaboration remained strong.…

This paper identifies several security risks that would need to be considered by European policymakers ahead of the election on 5th November 2024, which include: the undermining of NATO’s Article 5 treaty commitments, a breakdown of diplomatic communication between the USA and Europe, US withdrawal…