How are European strategic decisions shaped?
In Europe, decisions emerge from complex processes involving multiple actors across different institutional levels.
European Strategic Initiative operates upstream, structuring dialogue
spaces that foster the emergence of durable alignments.
Why is convergence difficult?
Because in Europe, decision-making relies on
structured and pluralistic processes.
The challenge: overcoming
the fragmentation of
positions and interests.
How can durable alignment between actors be enabled?
Structured strategic dialogue
+Clarification of positions and interests
"Durable convergences are built, not decreed."
What is a strategic dialogue
platform for?
Clarifying positions and interests
Bringing convergences to the fore
Building durable partnerships
Building dynamics of convergence
In complex environments, convergence cannot be decreed. It is built progressively through complementary dynamics that combine dialogue, mutual understanding and the alignment of actors.
Structured Strategic Dialogue
Structuring decisions are rarely shaped in open settings.
They emerge through targeted exchanges that require trust, discretion and mutual understanding.
ESI designs and facilitates restricted dialogue formats tailored to the issues at stake and to the actors involved.
Readability and Understanding of Decision-Making Dynamics
The European ecosystem is dense and fragmented. Identifying the relevant levels of engagement and the appropriate timing is therefore decisive.
ESI supports its partners in navigating European decision-making processes and understanding the associated institutional dynamics.
Convergence and Alignment of Interests
Durable decisions rest on the progressive alignment of actors whose interests may at times diverge.
ESI contributes to the emergence of convergence by facilitating constructive confrontation of positions and the identification of common ground.
Durable Partnerships
Durable Partnerships
Beyond one-off exchanges, effectiveness relies on cooperation frameworks embedded over time.
ESI acts to create the conditions conducive to durable partnerships, in connection with European institutions, partner governments and strategic actors.
These partnerships are grounded in trust, mutual understanding and integration within shared institutional and operational frameworks.