Politics
Political Circumstances or a Systemic Crisis?
In a Financial Times article entitled Why Europe Should Not Choose to Go It Alone, reprinted by The Hudson Institute, senior research fellow Nadia Schadlow states expressly that Europe should not try to go it alone.
Europe Unready For Autonomy – Which Is Increasingly Apparent
In the Chatham House think tank’s article entitled The Open Centre: Reimagining Europe’s offer to a fractured world that appeared on 15 June 2026, Grégoire Roos, director of Europe and Russia and Eurasia Programs, suggests that Europe should become an ‘open center’ in a world where the old international order is eroding and the USA and China are waging a bitter geopolitical struggle
Europe Trying to Pass Off Its Weakness as a New Historic Mission
In a May 2026 report by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) entitled Transatlantic pressure points: How Europe can strengthen its negotiating power with the US, senior research fellows Tobias Lindner, Valbona Zeneli and Rachel Tausendfreund attempt to advise Europe on how to deal with the new Trump administration.
Transatlantic Alliance Is Formally In Place But Has Accrued a Layer of Outstanding Tensions
Sooner or later, the Europeans will reestablish their ties with Russia and have to rebuild the continental security system. Thierry de Montbrial, executive chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), predicts this in his article for the Politique étrangère journal.
A New Path For Europe
The world comes to be ruled by a logic of domination, where the strong impose their dependence on the weak, and no one takes Europe seriously. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, a French diplomat, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations and professor at Columbia University, makes this conclusion in his article for the Politique étrangère journal.
Reflections On a Darkening World
The previous approaches no longer work, but nothing changes in the policy
German Foreign Policy Lagging Behind Changing Realities
Jonathan Lehrer, editor of The Berlin Pulse, compares the current German-U.S. relations to spouses’ divorce.
Transatlantic Divorce: A German View
In a May 2026 article entitled Britain’s Underbelly Is on the Ballot that appeared in The American Conservative, Fred de Fossard, a British publicist and former special adviser to the Conservative Government, describes in detail now the dark – criminal – side of contemporary Britain is now coming out of the shadows and becoming part of the political agenda.
Britain’s Dark Alley
Europeans See No Logic Behind Washington’s Steps to Change Its Armed Forces Strategy
Trump Shocks the Old World
Germany continues supporting Ukraine but is not planning to abandon the Russian market completely
To Keep Sitting on Two Chairs
