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As Russia is not legally entitled to the interest generated on the assets, Europe began transferring approximately $6 billion in windfall profits to Ukraine in 2024. The G7 devised a further $50 billion Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) loan based on the expected future value of earned interest.

Time for Europe to Break the Bank on Ukraine

With U.S. aid largely discontinued, European leaders have no choice but to unlock Russia’s sovereign assets in order to keep Ukraine afloat. Only a long-term military and financial commitment can help Kyiv prevail.

Western governments are mostly bowing to Trump’s bullying and adapting their priorities given their correct conclusion that the United States is no longer a reliable strategic partner. Accordingly, several of these governments are boosting defense outlays and cutting foreign aid spending.

Rising Global Dangers and European Silence

The failure of leading Western European governments to stand up against Trump’s outrages poses exceptional dangers.

The US has long maintained that taxes on digital services - which typically charge levies on revenue from streaming or digital advertising companies above a certain size - unfairly target American firms.

US presses Europe on rules for big tech companies

Europe should "reconsider" its rules for big tech companies if it wants to see lower US tariff rates on its steel and aluminium exports, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said.

Delors’ drive to abolish national barriers and streamline intra-European trade revitalised a European integration project becalmed in the doldrums since the 1970s. To ensure most of his 300 measures would get onto member states’ statute books by his 1992 deadline, he took a British-inspired ‘pragmatic’ approach.

It’s time to emulate Delors and fight for Draghi & Letta reforms

Giles Merritt recalls the heyday of Delors’ combative style that transformed the single market from dream into reality, and urges a repeat performance.

Forecasting provides warnings, and preparedness ensures they translate to effective action. The role of the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) is to use meteorological, seismic and hydrological forecasts to create actionable strategies and transform past lessons into preparedness

Taiwan: Disaster Prevention and Advanced Warnings

Taiwan’s contingency model links real-time coordination, high-tech forecasting and local volunteers for swift action.

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Out on the waves, where freedom of navigation is a golden rule, the ability and appetite of coastal countries to intervene is limited, even though the risk they face is escalating.

Europe

On the front line of Europe’s standoff with Russia’s sanction-busting shadow fleet

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Out on the western Baltic, a coastguard officer radios a nearby, sanctioned oil tanker. "Swedish Coastguard calling… Do you consent to answer a few questions for us? Over."

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The Bataclan attackers were young men of mainly North African origin, recruited in Belgium and France, trained in IS territory in the Middle East, who then returned to Europe hidden among a vast flow of migrants.

Europe

France remembers Bataclan attacks but knows enemy has not gone away

Friday, November 14, 2025

Just as France marks the 10th anniversary of the Bataclan massacres, another reminder has come of the permanence of the jihadist threat.

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Turkey’s willingness to open the border and normalize relations, is key to breaking Armenia free of its current geopolitical bonds. But Ankara still moves cautiously toward this, out of deference to its ally Azerbaijan—even though most analysts, inside and outside the country, argue that it is in Turkey’s strategic interests to act now, while the opportunity is there and Russia is still distracted in Ukraine.

Analyses

Armenia’s Election Is a Foreign Affair

Thursday, November 13, 2025

As the 2026 Armenian election approaches, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is facing fierce opposition from both Russia and the diaspora. He will need the help of Europe, the United States, and regional neighbours to advance his ambitious foreign policy.

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Throwing more money to combat regional ‘desertification’ may not be the answer. Research in Germany challenges the effectiveness of development finance, arguing that each euro spent through the EU’s cohesion policies generates little more than an additional euro in economic growth.

Europe

Neglecting its poorest regions risks being a fatal EU mistake

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Giles Merritt warns against halving cohesion funds in the new MFF when hard-hit rural regions flock to support the populists’ disruptive messages

Mamdani ran a formidable campaign, remaining relentlessly positive and using his communication skills and social-media reach to powerful effect

Analyses

If progressives want to beat populists, Mamdani is not the answer

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City may have made headlines, but victories in the Netherlands, New Jersey, and Virginia offer truer lessons.

If EU and U.S. leaders do not react decisively to these threats, Beijing’s economic and technological support will continue to undermine the Western sanctions regime on Russia and allow it to prolong its war in Ukraine.

Analyses

China is the Weak Link in Europe’s Ukraine Strategy

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

China plays an increasingly active role in the Kremlin’s hybrid war against Europe. The EU must confront this growing China-Russia cooperation, as it poses grave threats to both European security and economic resilience.

Ahead of Monday’s meeting, liberal Renew and the Greens were pleased with the Commission’s concessions, per three parliament sources, but still said they would argue for more.

Europe

Disunited European Parliament calls off EU budget rebellion

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

"The Commission’s proposals are quite good and meet our demands," said EPP MEP Herbert Dorfmann, while sources close to the file said centre-left S&D lawmakers were unhappy with the suggestions.

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The speech was the keynote address of the fifth Summit of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China which, this year,was held in Brussels.

World

Taiwan is a "victim of coercion", VP Hsiao Bi-khim tells EP

Monday, November 10, 2025

A senior Taiwan government minister has become the first to give a speech in a foreign parliament.

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Taiwan officially launched its carbon fee system this year as well as pilot reporting. The fee was initially set at approximately US$10 per metric ton CO2e. Establishing a national carbon price is a new milestone.

World

Taiwan’s participation in the “Global Mutirao” on climate transition

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Aligning with the world to confront climate risks while energizing broad participation to achieve sustainable development.

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Opening remarks will be delivered by Mr. Stefanos Gikas, Deputy Minister of Maritime Affairs & Insular Policy, Mr. George Alexandratos, President of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping, and H.E. Fang Qiu, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, while H.E. Matthew Lodge, British Ambassador to Greece, will also take part in a panel discussion. Moreover, Dr. Kyriacos Sabatakakis, Country Managing Director – ACCENTURE will present research regarding Artificial intelligence.

Events

24th Navigator 2025 – The Shipping Decision Makers Forum “Shape the Seas”

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

The 24th NAVIGATOR – The Shipping Decision Makers Forum 2025 returns more dynamic than ever on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, from 09:00 to 16:30 at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Lighthouse, under the theme “SHAPE THE SEAS” – a call to the maritime community to actively shape the future of the sea

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Although the Commission and member states pledged €522 million in aid earlier in 2025 at the High-Level Conference for Sudan, this came after two years of escalating violence and mass displacement.

Analyses

The Deafening Silence of the EU Over Sudan

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

As the true horrors of the Sudanese Civil War emerge, Brussel’s response remains muted compared to its more vocal and active stance on Gaza.

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Trump’s questioning of security guarantee and his constantly shifting messages on Ukraine have both reinforced the case for Europe’s strategic autonomy and highlighted the continent’s continued dependence on U.S. military support.

Europe

Can the EU Meet the Trump Moment?

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

The second term of U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing Europeans to strengthen their capacity for collective action. But their biggest challenge comes from within: U.S.-backed radical-right parties that want to weaken the EU.

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EU Actually

Guterres: the one and a half Celsius is dead

N. Peter KramerBy: N. Peter Kramer

On the eve of the UN climate conference COP30 in Brazil, the word was finally out.

Europe

It’s time to emulate Delors and fight for Draghi & Letta reforms

It’s time to emulate Delors and fight for Draghi & Letta reforms

Giles Merritt recalls the heyday of Delors’ combative style that transformed the single market from dream into reality, and urges a repeat performance.

Business

US presses Europe on rules for big tech companies

US presses Europe on rules for big tech companies

Europe should "reconsider" its rules for big tech companies if it wants to see lower US tariff rates on its steel and aluminium exports, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said.

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