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...
What Would It Take For Europe To Become a Global Geopolitical Power?
What would it take for Europe to become a truly autonomous actor on the world stage? What should be the relationship between the EU and its member states? How could national governments improve the interoperability of their defence forces? And where will Europe find the necessary resources and energy supplies to power its industrial engine?
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...
Is HYDEF, the EU’s Hypersonic Interception Programme, Still Making Progress?
Russia perpetrated yet another heavy attack targeting Kyiv on May 24th, firing some 600 drones and 90 missiles including hypersonic Kinzhal and Zircon missiles. As EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said, “Russia hit a dead end on the battlefield, so it terrorizes Ukraine with deliberate strikes on city centres.” A tactic made easier by Ukraine’s lack of air defence systems that can reliably intercept hypersonic missiles – Europe has the same problem. Could the EU’s Hypersonic Defence Interceptor Programme (HYDEF) help to solve this challenge?
Bridging the Channel: EP × BIGA Co-Branded Edition
Euro Prospects × BIGA — Special Co-Branded Edition Bridging the Channel The UK's Post-Brexit Return to Europe Six years after...
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.
After the Iran War: NATO’s Paper Power May Not Survive a Long War
The Iran war is not NATO’s war. Yet, ahead of the 2026 Ankara Summit, it has exposed a deeper anxiety: NATO’s military capabilities may be easy to visualize, but it is evident that the alliance is not ready, both in a political and industrial sense, from the rising Russian threat.
Conditionality Built the Liberal Order. Now the West is Abandoning It
Western conditionality shaped how the liberal order worked. Beijing is exposing what’s left of it.
