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Rym Momtaz

Editor-in-chief of Strategic Europe at Carnegie Europe

Rym Momtaz is the editor-in-chief of Carnegie Europe’s blog Strategic Europe. Prior to that, Ms Momtaz was a senior correspondent in France for POLITICO Europe where, between 2019 and 2022, she covered Emmanuel Macron’s foreign and European policy. She was also co-host of POLITICO Europe’s weekly EU Confidential podcast on European politics and is a regular foreign affairs analyst on French television. A multiple Emmy award-winning journalist-turned-analyst, she specialises in Europe and the Middle East and the interplay between those two spaces. She has particular expertise on French foreign and defence policy, European geopolitics, and the transatlantic relationship. Among her publications is an analysis of French President Emmanuel Macron’s conception of the European security order and agenda-setting articles like “The Macron Method,” “Emmanuel Macron’s Russian Roulette,” and “Emmanuel Macron, Think Tanker-In-Chief.”
Updated: September 6, 2024