Greece’s $4bn Bet: How Washington Is Rebuilding Its Eastern Mediterranean Around Athens
The Visit That Skipped Ankara
On 7 October, Marco Rubio and Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis closed the sixth US–Greece Strategic Dialogue in Athens with...
Europe Is Rearming. It Is Not Integrating
For the better part of a decade, the European defence debate ran on a single complaint: Europe would not spend. That complaint is now...
Make or Break in Beijing: Can the EU Get Anything Real From China by October?
A Chemical Nobody Had Heard Of
On 3 October, five days before EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič landed in Beijing, China's commerce ministry opened an...
The Black Sea’s Quiet Shipping War Reaches NATO Waters
Seventy Miles Off Byala
At about 3am on 6 October, aerial and sea drones struck two Turkish-owned cargo ships some 70 nautical miles off the...
The Blockade That Doesn’t Exist: How Europe Could Stumble Across Russia’s Kaliningrad Red Line
A Note About a Plan Nobody Has
On 30 September Russia sent NATO members a written note claiming it had information that the alliance was...
Can Le Pen’s Budget Plan Deliver a Smaller French State Without Deepening the Fiscal Strain?
French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Rally has unveiled a broad economic programme built around cutting public spending, reducing taxes,...
Who Actually Decides the Nobel Peace Prize, and Can Trump Win It?
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 9, putting renewed attention on one of the world's most prestigious and closely watched awards.
This...
Greenland Can Choose Independence, But Can It Choose What Comes After?
The Greenland crisis appears to have ended with signatures rather than confrontation. On September 22, 2026, the United States, Denmark and Greenland signed a...
Can Europe Reform Fast Enough to Avoid a Long-Term Economic Decline?
The European Union has spent the past two years discussing how to restore its economic competitiveness. The harder question is whether it can implement...
Europe Can Pay for Rearmament. Its Weakest Budgets Can’t
Wages Frozen, Gas Doubled, Warships Wanted
On 1 October Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu unveiled €54 billion of savings in France's 2027 budget. They include a...