Italy Pushes EU to Relax Fiscal Rules as Iran Crisis Fuels Economic Risk
Giorgia Meloni has called on the European Union to consider suspending its strict budget deficit rules if tensions linked to the Iran conflict escalate...
Sixteen Years, Four Days Left: Can Hungary Finally Break Free?
JD Vance landed in Budapest on Tuesday to address a campaign rally for Viktor Orbán ahead of Hungary's parliamentary elections on Sunday, April 12....
How France Turned Lavrov’s Platform into a Strategic Communication Operation
Russian information doctrine operates on a consistent premise: that the openness of Western media systems is a vulnerability to be exploited. Granting an adversary...
Medvedev Warns Russia Against Tolerating Ukraine’s EU Membership
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, signaled on Friday that Moscow should abandon its “tolerant attitude” toward Ukraine’s potential accession to the...
Lionel Jospin – a French Socialist in London
Lionel Jospin, one of the big figures in French Socialist Party politics, has died aged 88. He was a leading figure in the long...
Ukraine Strikes Russian Energy Infrastructure, Disrupting Exports
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, energy infrastructure has emerged as a key strategic vulnerability. Russia relies heavily on oil and gas...
Ukraine Braces for New Russian Offensive as Peace Talks Collapse
Ukraine is preparing to repel a renewed Russian spring offensive along the eastern front as U.S.-backed peace talks stall. Moscow’s focus is the so-called...
France’s Local Vote Exposes a Fragmented Battlefield
The 2026 municipal elections in France highlight a political system that is no longer dominated by a simple left right divide. Instead, three blocs...
Europe Draws a Line on Trump’s War
Europe’s leading powers have delivered a clear and unusually blunt message to Donald Trump: the Iran war is not theirs to fight.
From Berlin to...
ECB Holds Fire as War Clouds Inflation Outlook
The European Central Bank is poised to keep interest rates unchanged, but its message will be anything but neutral. With energy markets rattled by...