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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
Europeans See No Logic Behind Washington’s Steps to Change Its Armed Forces Strategy
Trump Shocks the Old World
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
For what purpose does Switzerland need overpriced fighter jets with obscure capabilities?
A Swiss F-35 Dilemma
The USA no longer wants to play the role of a hegemon in supporting the trade system. China is unable to play a leading role in the WTO. The EU is interested in preserving the rule-based trade order
A Plan to Revitalise the World Trade Organization
Paying Americans for Their Defense Capacities Proposed
Europe Has Found a New Way to Increase Defense Spending
Germany continues supporting Ukraine but is not planning to abandon the Russian market completely
To Keep Sitting on Two Chairs
That is the conclusion that analyst Daniel Gros, member of the board of the Centre for European Policy Studies, comes to in his report Mind The Gap: The Economics Of More Europe In Defence.
Europe Has to Choose Between Depending on American Technologies or Using Second-Rate European Solutions
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