The Iran war has exposed the limits of an economic corridor built for peacetime. Europeans should rethink the India-Middle ...
A loyal voter base is allowing Trump to dominate the Republican Party and strengthen his control before the midterms. Now his ...
President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan is at risk of falling apart because of American and Israeli maximalism over how, ...
Beijing no longer needs to actively deploy economic coercion to shape Europe’s economic agenda in its interest ...
The European Union needs a Russia strategy. Since February 2022, it has pursued a Ukraine policy; it still does not have a separate one for Russia. Yet, the EU’s relationship to Russia cannot be ...
Iran’s attacks on the Gulf have convinced Abu Dhabi that accommodation with Tehran has failed. Leaving OPEC reflects the ...
Donald Trump is in Beijing, but Europeans should not expect decisive guidance or a grand bargain with Xi Jinping. They should ...
Under a barrage of cognitive warfare, European governments need institutions designed to interpret threats, coordinate ...
In the last weeks, US lawmakers and the European Union have both failed to adopt their most recent packages of military and economic support for Ukraine. Both will reconvene to try again in the new ...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech on 27 February felt like the beginning of a new era for Germany’s security and defence policy. Indeed, for many observers, his announcements heralded ...
In May 2025, when US and Ukraine discussed the “minerals-for-aid” deal, Moscow pointed out the obvious: Russia’s rare-earth reserves dwarf Ukraine’s. By December, elements of that argument had crept ...
US president Donald Trump’s almost exclusive reliance on friends and family as envoys to broker difficult foreign policy deals poses systemic risks for Europe. The Trump envoys typically plug into a ...