More: European Union
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...
NATO Allies Foil Suspected Russian Plot to Sabotage Undersea Cables
This spring, NATO allies detected Russian submarines near the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, engaged in a secret operation to use a weapon capable...
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....
The Credibility Gap: Russia’s Rational Test of NATO’s Eastern Flank
On 12 August, NATO's ambassadors met in Brussels to respond to a fortnight of Russian drones and missile debris crossing into Polish and Romanian...
The Asymmetry of Strategic Depth
After almost five years of attritional warfare, the war in Ukraine is entering a more dangerous phase. Russia has strong incentives to escalate. The...
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,...
The Hidden Bill Behind Europe’s Defense Spending Boom
Europe's rearmament is being financed out of the welfare state, not economic growth, and different governments are settling that bill in different currencies: Germany...
Could US Big Tech Crowding Out Europe’s Bond Market?
U.S. technology giants are increasingly turning to European bond markets to finance their massive AI and data centre investments. The shift is raising concerns...
How Two EU Vetoes Are Quietly Handing Russia a Win in the Sanctions War
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$4,334 (gold, per ounce, near record) · $200bn (Russian reserves frozen at Euroclear) · Sept. 15 (deadline for the EU's Russia sanctions list...
Kallas Calls Leipzig Attack State Sponsored Terrorism
The European Union is facing growing concerns over alleged Russian hybrid operations on European territory after Germany concluded that Russia was responsible for an...