Reshaping the EU’s Trade and Industrial Policy To Protect Emerging Critical Industries
Policy Brief 30 June 2026 Trade & Industrial Strategy Reshaping the EU’s Trade and Industrial Policy To Protect Emerging Critical...
Green Electrification Diplomacy: A Credibility Test for the EU
Policy Brief 28 June 2026 Energy Connectivity Green Electrification Diplomacy: A Credibility Test for the EU By Juan Carlos Leunissen...
Towards A Coordinated Framework Out of Europe’s Gas Dependency
Policy Brief 26 June 2026 Energy Market Resilience Towards A Coordinated Framework Out of Europe’s Gas Dependency By Rimsha Arif...
Beyond Trade Defence: Europe Needs a Strategy Against Chinese Overcapacity
Policy Brief 24 June 2026 EU–China Strategic Competition Beyond Trade Defence: Europe Needs a Strategy Against Chinese Overcapacity By Matilde...
Europe’s Energy Lifeline: Where Does the Continent Go for Fossil Fuels?
Europe needs fossil fuels. The question then is where, and from whom, Europe will get them.
After 50 Years of Trade, Europe Has Learnt to Manage Its Expectations of China
For fifty years, Europe pursued China with the conviction that trade would beget liberalisation; the last decade has been the slow, costly process of revising that assumption.
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.
Hungary’s Post-Election Economic Rally
Markets are hungry for Hungary. Last month’s electoral upset has yielded early-stage economic ripples. Impacts are being felt across the stock markets, bond markets, and forex markets.
Poland’s Rise as Europe’s New Technological, Economic, Military Power
Poland’s post-communist rise to one of Europe’s fastest-growing economies represents a profound structural transformation.
The Fellowship of the Payments: Europe’s Journey Beyond the Two Towers
For decades, Visa and Mastercard have dominated Europe’s payment rails. Efficient — yes. Strategically neutral? Not so much.
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.
From Normative Power to Geopolitical Actor: The EU’s Strategic Shift on Syria
More than a decade after imposing sweeping sanctions on Syria, the European Union is recalibrating its approach. The easing of economic restrictions and the launch of reconstruction aid mark not only a policy shift, but a test of whether Brussels can evolve from a purely normative power into a strategic geopolitical actor.

