Opinion
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Europe Built Its Drone Shield Facing East. The Reported Threat Comes From the Mediterranean.
Paris and Rome have denied receiving a reported CIA alert about sea-launched Russian drones. Their…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A Membership Withheld from Ukraine and Offered Unsolicited to Canada
Germany proposed associate membership for Ukraine in May; it was withheld under pushback from member…
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Growing Religious Intolerance and Brussels’ Silence on a Recurring Pattern
On 11 September, two European towns produced the same story on the same day without…
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Two Kilometres from NATO, and the Threshold Russia Keeps Testing
On Saturday, Russian drones struck within a few kilometres of Poland’s border in Ukraine’s Volyn…
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Saxony-Anhalt and the Rule-of-Law Mechanism Brussels Lacks
The instinct in Brussels this week has been to file the Saxony-Anhalt result under German…
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Serbia’s Snap Election and the Accession Question Brussels Keeps Deferring
Serbia is heading back to the polls more than a year ahead of schedule. President…
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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…