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Patricia Urban and Deniz Tekin from the CEPS, Brussels, in their memo From Green to Clean to Eco-Social: How to Put Wellbeing Back onto the EU’s Sustainability Agenda carefully but clearly recognize an important and alarming evolution of the European sustainable development policy.
From “Green” Well-Being to “Pure” Competitiveness: How the EU Gradually Abandons the Social Component of Transition
In an article entitled Can the Climate Crisis Unite Europe? and published by Project Syndicate, Giulio Boccaletti, Scientific Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, advances an idea that is more and more often heard in the recent years: that the escalating climate crisis could provide divided Europe with a common cause that would finally unite it and impart new meaning and renewed legitimacy to the European project
Europe Again Seeking Escape in an Illusion of a Common Cause
Do the Baltic Countries Have a Prospect of Coming under French Forward Deterrence?
A French Coast for the Baltic Sea
Arthur Daemers from the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) in his memo A Make-or-Break for Accelerating Electrification, in a restrained but clear manner, describes the size of the problem that the European Union is going to face if it tries to dramatically speed up the electrification of its economy.
Europe Keeps Making the Same Mistake, This Time with the Power Grids
Reducing dependence on foreign suppliers raises costs, while a least cost decarbonization policy deepens dependence. The Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA), proposed by the European Commission in March 2026, leads to this dilemma
The Flaws in the European Union’s Proposed Industrial Accelerator Act and How to Fix Them
The Old World becomes more dependent on the USA, but its leaders avoid condemning the war in order not to displease Trump.
America Pulling Europe Closer
This conclusion is made by a big team of European security experts from leading think tanks: the Centre for European Policy Studies, Institute for European Policymaking, Royal United Services Institute, and Clingendael. Their analysis of the European defense development problems has resulted in a common report entitled More Europe in Defence – Three Pathways.
The EU Countries Face Numerous Military Capability Gaps
Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Romania are supporting the war against Iran in the hope that Trump will decide to station his troops, to be withdrawn from Germany, in their territory.
NATO’s frontline countries jockey for U.S. troops after Trump’s Germany withdrawal
In their article entitled Revamping Europe’s chips strategy: indispensability, not self-sufficiency, Niclas Poitiers and Tillman Schenk, analysts of the Brussels-based Bruegel center, attempt to offer Europe a more realistic approach to developing the semiconductor industry. But in fact the text proves an obvious thing: Europe is far – and probably desperately – behind in a key technology of the 21st century, and all its attempts to catch up look like belated and not too convincing imitation of activity.
Europe Again Racing After a Train That Has Long Left