Opinion
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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 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…
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Capability Without Doctrine: Europe’s Exposure in the Caspian
Ukraine struck sanctioned shipping and a Lukoil platform in the Caspian on 25 July. Ten…
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Brussels’s Selective Silence: The EU-India Trade Deal Meets a Delhi Crackdown
Six months ago, the leaders of the European Union stood in New Delhi and signed…
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Brussels’s Only Instrument: Regulation as Substitute Foreign Policy
The past twenty-four hours offer a compact illustration of a condition the European Union has…
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The Nicaragua Sanctions Gap: A Test of European Institutional Will
Daniel Ortega removed the last argument for treating Nicaragua’s political trajectory as uncertain. In a…
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The Gulf-Sized Gap in Europe’s Energy Dependency
Two wars that have nothing to do with each other produced the same headline this…
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A NATO-Style Pact Under Fire: What Pakistan’s Saudi Test Means for Europe’s Own Alliance Debates
A mutual defence pact signed less than a year ago is being tested in practice…
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Collective Punishment, Announced and Repeated
Governments rarely tell you what they are about to do to a civilian population. They…
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The Median Line: Ratifying a Veto Over Hormuz
After a week in which the United States struck Iran three times and Tehran declared…
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The Caracas Model: Regime Change Without Occupation, and the Method Europe Refuses to Name
The story everyone told in January was the raid. Two and a half hours, a…
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The Bridge Doctrine: When Washington Made Trade Infrastructure a Target, It Aimed at Europe’s Map
The consequential act of this week’s fighting was not the ninety targets struck along Iran’s…
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The Bomb and the Ledger: Europe’s Syrian Wager Comes Due
Two devices detonated within minutes of each other on Tuesday, one concealed in a rubbish…














