Opinion
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Sanctions by Other Means: Ukraine’s Refinery Strikes and the Policy Brussels Won’t Claim
Kyiv is degrading Russian refining capacity faster than the EU’s own sanctions regime. Washington meets Zelensky on Tuesday to weigh a moratorium. Brussels has offered nothing but an anonymous official.…
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Iran Sanctions Monitoring and the Legitimacy Europe Cannot Supply Alone
Russia and China have vetoed the expert panel meant to watch over the UN measures France, Germany, and the United Kingdom revived a year ago. The sanctions still bind every…
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Europe’s Quiet Windfall: How Gulf Instability Is Redirecting Investment Towards Portugal
A year of turmoil in the Middle East has produced an unlikely export, capital itself.…
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The Strait of Hormuz and the Clause Europe Never Finished
The Strait of Hormuz was never settled. Brussels simply treated a month without major escalation…
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Russia’s Hybrid Campaign and the Attribution Trap Europe Built for Itself
An explosive-laden drone was found on the tarmac at Leipzig airport metres from a Ukrainian…
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Brussels Has a Signature for Greenland. It Still Needs a Policy
Ursula von der Leyen will fly to Nuuk on 6 September to sign the first…
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Not Europe’s War, But Europe’s Exposure
Washington’s New Iran Sanctions Reach the Continent That Chose to Stay Out For most of…
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Lebanon, Syria, and the Security Doctrine Brussels Will Not Address
Two fronts, one fortnight, and a pattern that Brussels has yet to call by its…
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Germany’s Intelligence Reform Tests the Logic of Its Own Constitutional Court
Karlsruhe gave the Bundestag until the end of this year to rewrite the law governing…
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A Strategy Without a Category: The EU Victims’ Rights Consultation and the People It Does Not Reach
Brussels has rewritten its victims’ rules and opened a consultation on how to apply them.…
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Russia’s Assassination Campaign and the Gap in European Law
A Russian operation to assassinate a dual American and Ukrainian citizen in Warsaw was stopped…
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Europe Defended Its Rules, The Charge Was About Its Customs
Washington has placed the European Union in the top tier of jurisdictions through which Chinese…
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Islamabad Got the Call, Brussels Wasn’t on the List
Seventy-nine years on, Pakistan was asked to broker Libya’s reunification. The European Union, the country’s…
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The Point of Disposal: Shadow Fleet Enforcement and the Doctrine Europe Has Missed
The Union has assembled a maritime enforcement capability faster than it has agreed the rule…
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The Order of Service: Europe’s Water Crisis and the Allocative Silence of Union Law
France convenes a drought crisis meeting on Wednesday. Romania has sent its navy to reshape…
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The Mecca Agreement: An Islamic Alliance, or an Assurance of Peace? How It Reads in Brussels
The trilateral agreement signed in Mecca on 7 August pairs a collective-defence clause with an…
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Rebalancing Without a Deadline
Twice in July, Brussels removed the expiry date from a countermeasure it holds against Washington.…
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Preference Without Consequence: The GSP+ Enforcement Gap
Every country inside the GSP+ tier held all twenty-seven required conventions through 2023 to 2025.…
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The Housing Crisis Europe Is Not Measuring
Lisbon has priced its residents into Santarem, which now has the fastest rising prices in…
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The Instrument Europe Holds and Will Not Use
All twenty-seven member states of the European Union hold that Israeli settlements in the occupied…
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The Common Frontier Without a Common Law
Sixty-seven people have died this week at Ceuta. Some drowned. Others were crushed in the…
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The Devolution of Nuclear Power Europe Has Not Accepted
A fifty-minute film released on 25 July by Deutsche Welle, Germany’s state-funded international broadcaster, revives…