To Close Its Military Tech Gap, Europe Needs a Binding Defence Technology Union
In an increasingly unpredictable geopolitical context, Europe can still develop the defence tech it needs for the 21st century and ensure that European defence decisions remain in European hands.
Only a Region-Wide Strategy Can Solve the EU’s Pipeline Chokepoint In the Caucasus
In actively diversifying its energy and infrastructure since 2022, the EU has, in effect, pooled its operational risk into three partners in the South Caucasus, even as their political paths head in starkly different directions. What is at stake is not only regional connectivity but the structural coherence of the EU’s post-2022 energy security agenda.
Reshaping the EU’s Trade and Industrial Policy To Protect Emerging Critical Industries
The EU has identified the critical industries it needs for economic security, but not how to effectively protect those that are being established. Its trade defence instruments were designed to protect industries in decline, not the developing and not-yet-established industries its strategy now prioritises.
Green Electrification Diplomacy: A Credibility Test for the EU
The EU’s external energy partnerships will be credible only if they create tangible benefits for partner countries, rather than new dependencies.
Towards A Coordinated Framework Out of Europe’s Gas Dependency
Europe’s grid system cannot function without gas-fired plants that are becoming commercially unviable. Having shifted from Russian pipelines to diversified LNG supply, the EU now faces a deep gas dependency — one it has built into its own grid architecture.
Beyond Trade Defence: Europe Needs a Strategy Against Chinese Overcapacity
China’s industrial overcapacity is creating a competitiveness trap for the EU. Cheap supply lowers costs today, but weakens the industrial capacity and political room Europe needs to de-risk tomorrow.
Migration Alone Won’t Solve Europe’s Labour Problem
Migration has long been framed as the solution to Europe’s labour shortages and demographic challenge. Yet why do millions of jobs across the EU remain unfilled even as many working-age migrants remain underemployed or excluded from the labour market? Europe’s labour problem is becoming less about labour supply and more about its ability to absorb and integrate workers effectively.
Why China Cannot be Europe’s Alternative to the US
Europe risks trading one dependency for another if it treats China as a shortcut to economic security amid U.S. trade uncertainty.
Beyond Fabs: The Czech Republic’s Supply-Chain Role in Europe’s Chip Race
The EU Chips Act seeks to strengthen Europe’s semiconductor ecosystem and reach a 20% global market share by 2030. The Chips Act 2.0 is a chance to address its shortcomings.
The EU’s Digital Euro Is Drowning in the Global Stablecoin Wave
The window for the digital euro is closing. If the EU fails to accelerate its timeline, alternative private digital payment systems from the US threaten to render the project obsolete before it even launches.
European Defence: Is Germany a “False Friend”?
As the EU’s largest industrial power, Germany’s defence-industrial decisions are becoming a central fault line between Europe’s ambitions of military autonomy and continued reliance on the US.
