Opinion
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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…
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Scriptural Diplomacy: What Tehran Recited, and Who It Refused to Seat
Iran let scripture do the speaking at Khamenei’s funeral, grading each delegation by verse. The…
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Europe’s Bazooka, Holstered by Choice
Europe met Washington’s deadline and called the result stability. The more revealing decision was quieter:…
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The World Is Closing Its Doors
From the Americas to the southern tip of Africa, the door is closing on the…
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Europe’s Carbon Border Is Becoming Its Sharpest Instrument Abroad
As the emissions trading scheme reopens its free-allowance question, the carbon border adjustment mechanism is…
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The Corridor That Could Not Coordinate
Europe, institutional design, and the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor after the 2026 Iran war. Europe…
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The Child Sexual Abuse Regulation and the Limits of EU Legislation
On 29 June the Council and Parliament will sit down for the fifth and final…
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Europe’s Carbon Market Blinks First
The conclusions of the European Council meeting of 18 to 19 June carry a single…
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EU Deportation Law: The Path Europe Chose, and the One It Skipped
On 17 June the European Parliament passed the strictest deportation law in its history, to…
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Islamabad Memorandum: A Diplomatic Feat with a Deferred Peace
The Islamabad Memorandum is signed and the war declared over. Yet Washington met none of…
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The Summit That Held Together by Giving Way
The G7 left Evian this week without the torn-up communique and the departing-aircraft broadside that…
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Europe Won the Gulf by Default, Not on Merit
Brussels read this week’s decision to accelerate Strategic Partnership Agreements with the six Gulf states…
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The Law Implemented, yet the Mandate Lost
The Migration and Asylum Pact that becomes applicable across the Union on 12 June is…
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Brussels Is Losing the Global Race in Africa. Tanzania Is Where It Becomes Visible.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan addressed the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum between 5 and 7…
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The Gulf Has Declared Collective Defence. Yet the Practice Is Missing
Iran struck the passenger terminal at Kuwait International Airport on 3 June, the latest in…
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The Honest Sentence in Turnberry
The European Union is about to sign a trade deal with the United States on…
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Pakistan and The Price of Being Needed
Pakistan has worked its way into the calculations of the major blocs. The European Union’s…
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The Dependence Europe Pays to Keep
Brussels legislates strategic autonomy and subsidises its opposite. The war in Iran has laid bare…
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Gaza: Policy Paralysis Dressed as Neutrality
Israel was admitted to the United Nations under the international legal order, and Europe did…
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The Continent That Built the World Order Can No Longer Address the Crises
The world’s most consequential crises are being resolved without European authorship. In Iran, Gaza, the…