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The Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) and the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) are organizing the fifth edition of the 4x4 Directors Forum on February 1-2, 2023, in Rabat, Morocco.
This joint initiative has brought together the directors of four European and four African think tanks annually to discuss current challenges that both continents are facing since its first edition in 2019.
Closed seminar - by invitation only

The panels will be:
o The overlapping effects of the energy crisis
o The BRICS expansion in a changing global balance of power
o China’s economic outlook for 2030
o The future of international security: Ukraine & Ethiopia
Thinks tank members of the 4x4 Directors Forum:
German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri)
Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES)
Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)
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