European Awakening: A New Era of European Economic Defence?
When the European Union’s founding engine—France and Germany—finally finds common ground, the bloc crosses a structural threshold. In their joint letter to European Commission...
A Truce on Hybrids Is Not a China Policy
Brussels and Beijing finally have something they can both put in a press release. After months of sniping over cars, the two sides agreed...
Why Ghana Persuades BRICS Strategic Partnership
Joining BRICS+, an informal association comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, would distinctively open up Ghana's economic options and diversify and consolidate...
Can Vietnam Help the EU Break Its Dependence on China for Critical Minerals?
The European Union is seeking closer cooperation with Vietnam to secure supplies of critical minerals and reduce its dependence on China, according to internal...
China’s Russia Worry
Beijing’s biggest geopolitical concern each time Trump and Putin warmly embrace one another or the United States make a friendly gesture towards Russia is...
The Fairford Plot and Europe’s Host-Nation Problem
The arrests near RAF Fairford on September 27 are still surrounded by uncertainty, but the incident has already raised a wider question for Britain...
Why Europe Lost Its Seat at the Iran Nuclear Table?
For most of the past two decades, the Iran nuclear file was where Europe proved it could do geopolitics. Britain, France and Germany opened...
The Black Sea Has Quietly Closed
Twenty-One Ships
In August, Ukraine's Black Sea ports recorded 21 ship calls, about 90% fewer than a year earlier. A month later, on 16 September,...
The Waiver Is the Policy: What 19 October Will Reveal About Who Washington Really Sanctions
A Licence Signed Before the Ink Was Dry
On 9 October, three weeks after Donald Trump signed the most sweeping Russia sanctions statute of his...
As America puts its alliances at risk, Europe is learning to stand on its own
The US is seeking greater freedom of action and fewer international constraints, demanding more immediate returns from its alliances. But in doing so, it...