AfD, Reform UK and RN Aren’t the Same Story
In 2026, a small cottage industry of British commentators started asking whether the UK needs its own version of Germany's Brandmauer — a cross-party...
Vietnam–France Relations: Strategic Diversification in a Fragmented World
General Secretary and President To Lam’s official visit to France on September 10, 2026, was significant not simply because it produced a new round...
Sweden Election 2026: What’s at Stake and Why It Matters
Sweden will hold a parliamentary election on September 13. The centre-left opposition, led by Magdalena Andersson, currently has a slight lead in the polls...
The Predictable Earthquake: What Saxony Anhalt Tells Us About Europe
On Sunday 6 September 2026, voters in the eastern German state of Saxony Anhalt did something no electorate in the country had ever done....
Could Europe’s Gas Crisis Leave Lasting Scars on Its Economy?
Europe is heading toward another difficult winter for its energy system, but this time the problem comes at a particularly sensitive moment. European natural...
Ukraine’s Corruption Story Runs on Its Own Clock, Not the Battlefield’s
Bottom line: Documented Ukrainian graft becomes diplomatic leverage on its own schedule, independent of its dollar value — the 2024 $40 million case and...
Why Serbia’s River Threat to Kosovo Is Really About Ukraine
Vučić's threat to divert the Ibar River is not a Kosovo policy — it is manufactured leverage aimed at three audiences at once: Brussels,...
Turkey’s Marine Parks in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean Provoke Regional Turbulence
Turkey declared mid-August by presidential decree the establishment of two marine parks beyond its territorial waters. The first marine park lies in the northeastern...
Can Meloni’s Stability Record Survive Italy’s 2027 Election?
Meloni Set to Break Italy’s Stability Record
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is poised to lead the country's longest lasting government since World War Two,...
Is Russia’s Hybrid Campaign Against Europe Bigger Than Anyone Confirmed Until Now?
More than 150,000 Moldovans is the kind of figure that can distort a story as easily as it clarifies one. It suggests a hidden...