Opinion
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Capping Chinese Hybrid Cars: The EU Seeks a Restraint the WTO Prohibits
The EU request that China cap exports of Chinese hybrid cars answers a real gap in the 2024 tariffs. It also seeks an instrument the WTO prohibits, and one Europe…
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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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The Trilateral Format’s Missing Fourth Chair
Washington wants to return to a three-way table with Moscow and Kyiv. The case for…
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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…