At July’s NATO summit in Ankara, European leaders accepted that they must carry more of their own defence. Turning that ...

On July 8th, Bulgaria lived out a split-screen reality. In Brussels, European officials celebrated Bulgaria’s entry into the euro zone, with the euro set to replace the lev on January 1st 2026—a ...

On November 24th, EU representatives presented their US counterparts with the European Commission’s new “digital omnibus package”. Its pro-business language and deregulatory aims were not enough to ...

Anti-corruption sanctions—and even the prospect of them—under the next US administration will be crucial to chances of peace in many parts of the world. Here’s ...

Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzling European Union funds is sending shockwaves through French and European politics. The ruling condemns her to four years in prison, with two suspended, and bars ...

Power is now defined by control over flows of people, goods, money, and data, and via the connections they establish. Only states that see the new map of geopolitical power clearly will be able to ...

Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez has told US president Donald Trump something he is not used to hearing: no. By refusing America use of Spanish bases for its military operation in Iran, Sánchez ...

It was not predestined that Russia should end up in confrontation with the EU; the beginning of the relationship promised something very different. The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement of 1997 ...

In mid-March, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez confidently asserted to his European allies that Russia will not “bring its troops across the Pyrenees.” This sentiment echoes a European belief ...

President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace (BoP) is not much of a peace mechanism. Look no further than its logo—a US-first western hemisphere flanked by rip-off UN olive branches burnished in Trumpian ...

What constitutes a “reset”? The question arises now, as Hungary returns to the European fold. Viktor Orban is on his way out. Peter Magyar’s Tisza party has won a supermajority, securing 138 out of ...

Since his first term, Donald Trump’s narrative towards Europe has been shaped by the notion that Europeans have unfairly benefited from trade agreements with the US while freeriding on American ...