Economics
Europe Keeps Devising Strategies Irrelevant to Its Real Capability
In an article entitled Gas-lit: The Three Seas Initiative is out of step with a clean-energy future, Szymon Kardaś, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, criticizes the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) that is still staking on gas infrastructure even after the dependence on Russian gas was reduced considerably.
Central and East European Countries Keep Clinging to the Gas Model Even Though Its Constraints Are Already Visible
Experts have found it could reduce the country’s dependence on imported fertilizers.
The French Asked to Collect Their Urine
Experts at the Bruegel think tank based in Brussels make this conclusion in their report entitled Europe must prepare for a possible oil supply crunch and propose measures that will hit the ordinary European consumer once again.
Despite the end to the Gulf war, Europe must prepare for an oil supply crunch.
Harrison Kass, an expert in national security and technology, makes this conclusion in his column for The National Interest. He proceeds from the fact that the German Rheinmetall company sells its automotive division, Power Systems. Yet the details on the deal – and the condition of Rheinmetall itself – testify to a more complicated situation.
The European Economy Prefers to Produce Military Hardware, Not Cars
In a policy brief of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) entitled How to Make European e-SAF Production under ReFuelEU Aviation Fly?
European Green Aviation Risks Staying an Expensive and Unfinished Experiment
As the U.S. tariffs approach their limits, the Trump administration will turn its sights to other fields to put pressure on Europe. In their article entitled Mitigate, Deter, Escalate: Europe’s Options Against US Economic Coercion, experts of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) predict three scenarios of escalation between the European Union and the USA in the fall and winter of 2026.
Mitigate, Deter, Escalate: Europe’s Options Against U.S. Economic Coercion
Even a relatively short-lived energy price spike would tell on prices and lead to a protracted period of monetary tightening. This is what experts of the European Parliament’s Economic Governance and EMU Scrutiny Unit predict as they compare the 2021-2022 and 2026 energy crises amid the current energy price growth caused by the Gulf war.
ECB Monetary Policy Amid Shifts and Breaks. Navigating the 2026 Energy Shock
Experts at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) foretell this scenario in their report entitled Building One Europe, One Market – Four Strategic Priorities for the Digital Single Market.
In Digital Markets, Europe Will Be a Developer of Bureaucratic Rules, Not Technologies.
The EU Inc. all-European incorporation regime will offer no advantages to innovative businesses. Experts from the Bruegel think tank (Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory) make this conclusion in their report entitled How to secure the benefits of an EU-wide incorporation regime.
How To Secure The Benefits Of an EU-wide Incorporation Regime
In a May 2026 policy brief for the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) entitled Electric Collective: Europe’s Clean Energy Future Without Russia, senior policy fellow Szymon Kardaś tries to portray the situation as a success for European energy diplomacy
Europe Has Paid a Huge Price for Rupture with Russia – In Fact Only To Swap One Master for Another
Fabian Zuleeg, Chief Executive and Chief Economist at the European Policy Centre, reflects in his essay on what mistakes can be made in analyzing economic security issues.
A New EU Paradigm: Prioritizing Economic Security?
In his interview to the Institut Montaigne, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, honorary president of the Movement of the Enterprises of France (MEDEF) and of the Alliance of Francophone Employers (APF), argues that the European Union’s economic security issue can only be addressed by big nations relying on national sovereignty. Here are the main messages from that interview.
EU Economic Problems Not to Be Addressed Among All 27 Member States
In his article entitled To Weather Energy Instability, the EU Must Strengthen its Carbon Market, Matthew McLaughlan Merelo from the Barcelona CIDOB think tank formulates, rather straightforwardly, a message uncomfortable for many European politicians: that, amid a new energy shock caused by the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the European Union again tends to weaken, rather than strengthen, its long-term resilience tools.
Europe Ready to Sacrifice Long-term Resilience to Short-term ‘Competitiveness’ Once Again
In a special poll by the Institut Montaigne, done in partnership with Verian in March 2026, Joseph Dellatte, research fellow and resident expert on climate and energy, and Hugo Jennepin Reyero, project officer for energy and decarbonization, find an important and alarming trend: a significant part of French society no longer perceives energy crises as exceptional developments
The French Accept Energy Instability as a New Norm