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The discussions are expected to help define EU positions and expectations should efforts to restart negotiations gain momentum. European diplomatic sources cited a series of recent contacts with Turkey and said Cyprus has become linked to broader EU-Turkey relations.

Diplomacy intensifies over Cyprus

United Nations secretary-general envoy Maria Angela Holguin will be in Brussels on Wednesday for meetings seen as important to European Union preparations for a possible revival of Cyprus reunification talks ahead of an expected visit by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Cyprus next week.

Elsewhere, Dr Denis MacShane, a former Europe Minister in the UK under Tony Blair, told this site, “Starmer’s problem is he is not a politician with the years of experience a Blair or a Thatcher had to avoid making first grade mistakes

Starmer’s problem? "He is not a politician"

By: Martin Banks | Friday, July 17, 2026

Andy Burnham is due to be named leader of the Labour Party on Friday, before he becomes prime minister on Monday.

If adopted, Greece would become the first EU member country to ban social media for children under the age of 15. Although France has also advanced similar legislation, which it’s been hoping to implement in time for the new school year in September. But, last week, the Commission instructed Paris to revise its proposal to ensure it complies with EU law.

Greece signals fast-track social media ban for minors

By: Euractiv | Wednesday, July 15, 2026

National plan would ban under-15s from accessing social media

Having left the 2025 G7 summit a day early in part to avoid Zelensky, Trump appears to have softened his view, and the two leaders had what seems by most accounts to have been a good meeting at the 2026 NATO summit in Ankara.

European Sycophancy Worked on Trump

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Nearly a year and a half after Europeans leaned into sucking up to Trump, the strategy has produced some benefits when it comes to Ukraine.

Marine Le Pen, 57, had been prepared to hand the baton to her protege, Jordan Bardella, if she had been barred from running. But the court watered down last year’s initial verdict, and made clear she was free to join the race.

France’s Marine Le Pen, fighting court conviction and running for presidency

By: BBC News | Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Marine Le Pen has run for the French presidency three times before, but now that she has decided to attempt it a fourth time, she has taken a gamble.

Against the backdrop of numerous challenges, EU citizens want the European Union to step up its game: 68% of Europeans believe that the EU’s role in protecting citizens against global crises and security risks should become more important. Large majorities want EU member states to be more united in the current context and say the EU should promote the respect for international law by all countries (both 90%). In addition, 73% want it to have more means to face global challenges.

Majority think EU is a "place of stability in a troubled world"

By: Martin Banks | Wednesday, July 1, 2026

While economic concerns grow, EU citizens value the peaceful, protective and cooperative nature of the EU.

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Some diplomats fear an RN victory in France would represent a far sharper break than a mere matter of narratives.

Can France’s far right copy-paste the Meloni method?

By: Euractiv | Monday, June 29, 2026

Bardella is interested but her strategy might not work outside Italian politics

New defense is thus as much a question of Europe’s technological base and sovereignty as one of a new order of battle for the future of warfare. This is where the new security strategy will be tested.

EU Needs a Strategy for its Turn to New Defense Tech

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Defense tech innovations will be at the heart of Europe’s new security strategy. But so far, Brussels has been making moves without a broader plan, undermining readiness and credibility.

Not everything is broken between Berlin and Paris. Despite heightened tensions, they established a nuclear steering group in March, 2026, to engage in doctrinal dialogue on conventional, missile defense, and French nuclear capabilities—a move which had long been anathema to Germany. The two countries have also been increasingly cooperating in the fields of AI and quantum computing, among other tech areas.

France and Germany Need Their Own Situation Room

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Wednesday, June 17, 2026

The Franco-German relationship is on the rocks again. But unlike previous moments of tension, the epochal changes on the world stage require that both step up investment in their bilateral ties.

These are times to think creatively and promote a narrative that convinces both European populations and outside partners that the EU is profoundly changing. The priority must be to issue a clear political statement about what Europe intends to do at a time when many of its partners have lost confidence in its political agency.

European Security Strategy: In Search of a New Ambition

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Monday, June 15, 2026

The EU is putting together a new security strategy to meet today’s myriad challenges. But for any proposal to be effective, the union needs to grapple with its identity and ambitions.

The CPMR says it will further its analysis of the published documents “and continue to push for coherent, well-funded and place-based European policies that ensure islands and coastal communities can fully contribute to Europe’s sustainable and competitive future.”

CPMR welcomes EU’s ambitious new islands strategy

By: Martin Banks | Thursday, June 11, 2026

The EU’s newly announced islands strategy has been hailed as a “welcome and historic step.”

ASEAN is now the EU’s third-largest trading partner outside Europe, with goods trade reaching €258.8 billion in 2024 and services adding well over €130 billion more. More revealing still is where the long-term capital has gone: EU foreign direct investment stock in ASEAN has climbed to roughly €400 billion—comfortably above the approximately €247 billion invested in China.

EU’s Vietnamese Heart: Why ASEAN Centrality Has Become Brussels’ New Strategic Compass

By: Radu Magdin | Monday, June 8, 2026

More than a year into the second Trump presidency, a quiet truth has hardened into strategy: Europe entered this era of geopolitical turbulence less exposed than almost anyone predicted—not because it stood still, but because it spent the disruption building doors elsewhere.

Mélenchon, who promised to fix the domestic policy “damages” of the liberal president Emmanuel Macron, also had Washington in his crosshairs.

Melenchon takes on the EU

By: Euractiv | Monday, June 8, 2026

He called for a Europe ’free from the destructive principles of liberalism’

Magyar said talks with the EU had begun only a few weeks ago and already an agreement had been reached that was "really, really important for the Hungarian people". He said the EU funding amounted to 13% of the total Hungarian budget.

EU hails Hungary’s ’wind of change’ and unlocks €16.4bn for new PM Magyar

By: BBC News | Tuesday, June 2, 2026

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has told Hungary’s new prime minister that billions of euros in EU funding are to be unlocked subject to his government pushing through a raft of "long-overdue reforms".

Pedro Sánchez has criticised the cases against his brother and wife, pointing to the fact that they originated in accusations made by far-right organisations.

Spain’s Sanchez digs in after eight years as PM as wave of scandals threatens survival

By: BBC News | Tuesday, June 2, 2026

June 1st marked exactly eight years since Pedro Sánchez became prime minister of Spain, but with his government and Socialist Party besieged by corruption investigations he is more likely to be plotting his political survival than celebrating.

Tsipras framed the launch as an effort to mobilize voters who had withdrawn from political life, focusing on low wages, housing pressures, insecurity, the rising cost of living and what he described as the erosion of social rights and democratic standards.

New Tsipras party reshapes Greek politics

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Former PM attacks government corruption, positioning ELAS as country’s new progressive opposition force

The deterioration of Europe’s military strength is alarming, yet not as apparent as defence chiefs would wish. Governments’ response to US President Trump’s criticism of their NATO spending has been to focus on increased defence budgets, even though these are just promises to be honoured in years to come.

Silence surrounds the fate of the EU’s ’European army’ call

By: Giles Merritt | Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Giles Merritt contrasts the sound and fury of Trump’s threats to NATO with EU governments’ muted response to the idea of a ‘European army’.

The young respondents suggest some very practical reforms to ease housing difficulties. These include help for first-time buyers, more flexibility in rental markets and a clampdown on speculators who drive prices upwards. The spectre of homelessness they evoke is paralleled by those who point to childlessness as the price of soaring housing costs.

To ignore ageing’s threats to the young is to imperil Europe

By: Friends of Europe | Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Giles Merritt reports on the vivid warnings of Debating Europe’s “Voice for Choices” report on ageing’s impact

Merz often adds to his own problems, critics contend, pointing to his sometimes forthright remarks and reportedly hot temper.

Merz’s struggles mount as he marks a year as German leader

By: Euractiv | Wednesday, May 6, 2026

After a year in office, his coalition is beset by infighting and Europe’s top economy is still weak

The EU–India deal shows Brussels can negotiate with geopolitical intent when it chooses to: embedding standards, diversifying supply chains and deepening political alignment. Applying the same logic to Africa means co developing value chains, from cobalt and copper processing in the DRC and Zambia to green hydrogen and renewable projects across North and West Africa.

The EU–India Deal Is Done. Africa Must Be Next

By: Rajnish Singh | Wednesday, April 29, 2026

The EU-India FTA deal showed Brussels can move when the stakes are high; Africa is the real test of whether Europe can protect its economic security in a more fractured world.

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