Editorial
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Europe Has an Israel Policy for Netanyahu. It Now Needs One for Israel.
Gadi Eisenkot’s mandate tests whether Brussels objected to a government or to its conduct. EU-Israel relations need benchmarks that would survive a change of prime minister. When President Isaac Herzog…
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Western Sahara and the UN Framework Europe Still Cites
The Security Council let its mission in Western Sahara lapse at midnight on Saturday. The Union’s position, agreed with Rabat in January, still rests on a UN process that Morocco…
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Austria’s Headscarf Ban and the Security Risk Hiding Inside a Child-Protection Law
Girls under fourteen returned to Austrian classrooms this month under a law that decides, for…
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The Storage Target Europe Lowered and Still Hasn’t Met
European gas prices climbed more than seven percent last week, the fourth consecutive weekly gain,…
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The Warning Berlin Was Punished for Making
In April, Chancellor Friedrich Merz called Washington’s Iran campaign strategically incoherent, and the United States…
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What €493 Million Could Not Buy: Bundibugyo Reaches Day 100
Tomorrow marks the hundredth day since the World Health Organization declared the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak…
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The Union Can Recommend Enlargement but Cannot Describe
Icelanders vote on 29 August on whether accession talks resume. Parliament instructed the Union to…
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Renamed, Not Relinquished: The Russian Bases in Syria and the Price Europe Did Not Ask
Damascus has taken back the airport and the commercial berth. Moscow has kept the coastline.…
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What Europe Kept and What It Postponed
On 2 August the European Union began requiring companies to tell people when they are…
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The Thirty-Year Bargain Europe Was Not Asked to Sign
Washington has set the terms of Gulf fuel-cycle governance until 2056. The Union that reimposed…
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The Settlement Trade Ban Is a Test of Authority Brussels Is Failing to Pass
A month after foreign ministers found the outlines of consensus, the bloc still cannot decide…
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The Continent That Prepared for the Wrong Emergency
Europe has built the most sophisticated apparatus in the world for governing a warmer future,…
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A Commission Half Empty: What Xi’s Reshuffle Should Tell Europe
Xi Jinping is refilling a military command his own purges have hollowed out. Europe should…
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The Peace Europe Has Already Spent
The Islamabad Memorandum has stopped a war, not guaranteed a recovery. Europe cannot write the…
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The Politics of Retreat: Europe’s Budget Chooses the Past
The Council’s first budget with figures protects the farms and the regions, and cuts the…
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The Iran-US Deal Exposes Europe’s Diminished Role in Its Own Backyard
A four-month conflict on Europe’s periphery was brought toward resolution through an American-Iranian-Pakistani channel in…
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The Lebanon Doctrine Built for a Different Country
Hezbollah rejected the Washington-brokered Israel-Lebanon ceasefire on 4 June. The European Union has spent two…
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The Village That Never Existed: A Socio-Political Study
A generation lived under a single proposition: that the world had become a “global village,”…
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The Assumption That Held Europe Together Is No Longer Holding
For seven decades, European integration rested on an unwritten guarantee: that American power would remain…
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Mercosur Provisional Application Tests Europe’s Trade Resolve
The provisional application of the EU–Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement on 1 May 2026 marks one…
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Europe’s Defence Spending Surge Now Faces Implementation Test
Eighteen months after Ursula von der Leyen first sketched out an extraordinary surge in European…
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Readiness 2030 Will Test Europe’s Industrial and Political Will
Brussels: When EU leaders converged in October 2025 to endorse the Readiness 2030 Roadmap, the…