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...
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.
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.
The EU Keeps Insisting It’s Not a State. It Keeps Building One Anyway
From a coal and steel pact to an €800 billion defence plan, seven decades of crisis management have quietly assembled something Europe refuses to name.
Rearming Europe: Following the Netherlands’ Example?
The Dutch are looking to serve as the forefront in Europe’s new era of military independence.
Iran War or Apocalypse? What Europe Should Know About Religious Geopolitics
When religion raises the stakes of geopolitical struggles, the space for diplomacy narrows.
