The EU Should Look to Singapore and New Zealand on How to Secure Supply in a Crisis
A shortage turns trade policy into a sovereignty test: who keeps exporting when the goods become scarce?
The EU Cannot Win Its Eastern Neighbourhood Through Normative Power Alone
The EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood is being contested by actors who move faster, ask less, and deliver sooner, yet its policy strategy remains calibrated to a less competitive environment.
One Storm, Two Models: How the EU and ASEAN Weigh Efficiency Against Equality
Trade fragmentation and geopolitical shocks are testing two opposing answers to the same question.
Europe’s $750 Billion Promise to Buy US Energy That Nobody Needs
The EU has pledged $750 billion in US energy purchases at the exact moment its own gas demand is beginning to fall. Priced to satisfy trade negotiators rather than actual demand, the commitment risks locking Europe into fresh import dependency just as its own consumption starts to shrink.
Europe’s Opening in Africa’s Finance Race with China Lies in Local Value Creation
As Europe and China converge on de-risking private capital in development finance, the real contest is shifting from mobilising finance to turning it into value-chain offers built around African priorities.
Is There Really a Need for an EU Directive on Global Minimum Corporate Tax?
While many believe that implementing the OECD’s Global Minimum Tax through an EU Directive is a good way to combat tax avoidance, evidence suggests it unduly strips EU Member States of their own tax sovereignty.
How Digital Product Passports Can Map Europe’s Supply Chain Dependencies
The EU’s supply chain policy will remain reactive unless it builds a clearer system for seeing where product-level dependencies actually sit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Mechanics of the EU-Mercosur Trade Deal: Europe’s Push to Shift the Global Order
The EU–Mercosur trade deal has become a test of whether Europe can turn geopolitical pressure into diversification, resilience and renewed multilateral ambition.
