European Strategic Initiative
Building synergy
A European platform for strategic dialogue and influence
European Strategic Initiative is a Brussels-based platform dedicated to facilitating strategic dialogue and influence between European institutions, public decision-makers, partner governments and key stakeholders.
ESI operates in complex political, security and economic environments, supporting its partners in understanding European ecosystems, refining their positioning and structuring interactions with high decision-making value.
Through targeted dialogue formats and high-level exchanges, European Strategic Initiative acts as an interface at the heart of the European ecosystem, contributing to the emergence of convergences and long-term partnerships.
Strong ideas require the right timing, access and credibility to shape decisions.
Message from the President
The right moment…
In today’s European environment, structuring decisions are shaped within increasingly complex, fragmented and often little-visible spaces. The challenge lies less in the absence of ideas than in the difficulty of allowing them to circulate, be confronted and mature within frameworks conducive to decision-making.
The growing number of actors, the technical nature of policy files and the specific timing of European institutions make structured dialogue spaces indispensable—spaces grounded in trust, mutual understanding and respect for institutional balances.
It is in this spirit that European Strategic Initiative was created.
ESI neither replaces institutions nor existing decision-making processes. It operates upstream, where convergences take shape, positions are clarified and the conditions for durable alignment between actors are established.
Our ambition is simple: to help make these dialogue spaces more legible, more accessible and more effective—at the right moment.