From 3rd to 5 May 2023, the "European Union in International Affairs" (#EUIA23) conference was a major get-together of academics and officials to discuss the EU’s international role. It featured roughly 400 participants from more than 40 countries for a programme of over 50 academic panels. #EUIA23 also included a keynote lecture by the Chairman of the EU Military Committee; a range of policy-link panels on EU-Africa relations as well as defence cooperation in Europe; and a debate of the editors of leading academic journals in the field of EU foreign policy-making. The Brussels School of Governance (BSoG) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel has been an organising partner of the EUIA conference cycle, together with the Department of Politics and International Studies of University of Warwick; EGMONT - Royal Institute for International Relations; Institute for European Studies, ULB (IEE-ULB) and United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies. #EUIA23 was chaired by BSoG Prof. Florian Trauner, together with Dr. Frank Mattheis of UNU-CRIS.
