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Can Europe Catch Up in the Global Critical Minerals Race?

Europe is trying to reduce its dependence on foreign suppliers of critical minerals, but funding shortages, fragmented decision making and slow project development are...

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...

Spain’s Ceuta Crisis Raises Questions Over Disinformation and Migration

Ceuta is a Spanish enclave on Morocco’s northern coast and one of the European Union’s two land borders with Africa. Its location has made...

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,...

Pentagon NATO Review Sets Out US Troop Options for Europe

Pentagon Sets November Deadline for Troop Options A Pentagon review of U.S. troop deployments in Europe will produce at least four sets of options for...

When Censorship Becomes Law: The Taliban’s Transformation of Information Control

From Media Restrictions to a Legal Architecture of Silence The most consequential development in Afghanistan's information environment may no longer be the individual restrictions imposed...

Why Is Iceland Voting on EU Membership Talks?

Iceland will hold a referendum on August 29 on whether to reopen negotiations over joining the European Union, in a closely contested vote that...

Could Climate Damage Become Europe’s Next Public Finance Crisis?

Europe's increasingly extreme weather is creating a fiscal problem that governments can no longer treat as a series of isolated emergencies. As wildfires, floods...

Can West Africa’s Cocoa Industry Meet EU Deforestation Rules?

West Africa’s cocoa industry is struggling to comply with new European Union anti-deforestation rules, raising concerns about supply disruptions and higher costs for chocolate...

How Are Europe’s Heatwaves Exposing a Growing Insurance Gap for Businesses?

For more than a century, cafes in the Italian city of Padua have welcomed customers for an early evening aperitivo, with people gathering outdoors...

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