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Since the Netherlands recognised same-sex unions in 2001, a number of other EU countries have followed suit, but others, such as Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, have not.

Same-sex marriage must be respected throughout EU, top court tells Poland

Poland has been told to recognise same-sex marriages registered elsewhere in the European Union, in a ruling by the EU’s top court.

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

By: Friends of Europe | Tuesday, November 25, 2025

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

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

By: The Globalist | Monday, November 24, 2025

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

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.

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

By: BBC News | 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."

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.

France remembers Bataclan attacks but knows enemy has not gone away

By: BBC News | 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.

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.

Neglecting its poorest regions risks being a fatal EU mistake

By: Giles Merritt | 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

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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.

Disunited European Parliament calls off EU budget rebellion

By: Euractiv | 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.

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.

Can the EU Meet the Trump Moment?

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | 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.

Whether Europe’s faltering performance on AI could be turned into a coherent strategy in the event of a US financial crisis remains to be seen.

How Europe’s AI tortoise might overtake the US hare

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Giles Merritt reports on the growing risk of an investment meltdown of the US’s exuberant AI start-ups, and the opportunity for Europe.

Western Balkan governments should team up to develop joint projects, attract foreign investment in the defense industrial sector, and benefit from increased spending on security in the EU.

How the Western Balkans Can Contribute to European Defense

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The Western Balkans’ defense industry offers Europe a chance to strengthen its security. But to become net contributors, governments across the region must modernize their militaries, attract investment, and gradually integrate into the EU’s defense initiatives.

Kallas told a party congress of her liberal political family ALDE on Friday: “Yesterday at the European Council we gave a mandate to sign the Mercosur agreement.”

Kallas walks back claim Mercosur deal was agreed at European Council

By: Euractiv | Monday, October 27, 2025

Remarks by the EU’s top diplomat on Friday clashed with a readout from the European Council president

Russia has rejected European calls for a ceasefire based on existing front lines

Europe’s leaders back Trump call for frontline freeze but Russia says no

By: BBC News | Wednesday, October 22, 2025

European leaders have joined Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in insisting that any talks on ending the war in Ukraine should start with freezing the current front line, and warned that Russia is not serious about peace.

The European crisis is deeper than an inability to conceive of security outside the U.S.-dominated NATO framework

Europe’s Broken National Politics Hamper its Geopolitical Power

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Europe is paralyzed, crippled by a lack of strategic vision, the surge of far-right forces, and the multiplication of caretaker governments. To achieve the union’s geopolitical ambitions, EU member states must first respond to their citizens’ daily concerns.

Marine Le Pen’s hard-right National Rally (RN) and the radical-left France Unbowed (LFI) of Jean-Luc Mélenchon have both tabled confidence votes in Lecornu’s government on Thursday, but would need the support of centre-left parties to bring him down.

French PM backs freezing Macron’s pension reform to save government

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 15, 2025

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has told parliament he backs suspending controversial 2023 pension reforms, in the face of crucial votes of no-confidence later this week

However, he does share something fundamental with populist leaders Nawrocki, Orbán, and Fico about the EU: sovereignty. These leaders do not support further EU integration even though the political, security, and defense circumstances demand it.

Babis’s victory in Czechia is not a turning point for European Populists

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 14, 2025

A populist movement has taken power in Czechia, reinforcing the steady rise of far-right parties across Central Europe. While united by the idea of regaining sovereignty, these forces remain divided on vital issues such as their stance toward Russia

Europe’s ‘coalition of the willing’ may at some point have to put peacekeeping ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine, but its weaknesses are daunting. The UK and France wrangle over their soldiers’ rules of engagement – should these deter Russian assaults or respond to them? As to capability shortcomings, the Europeans would have to rely on the US for intelligence, for many weapons systems and logistical support.

The EU’s defence drive lacks a plan and a political mandate

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Europe’s answer to the world’s geopolitical turmoil is massive rearmament and a new era of intra-EU military cooperation

The EU should support African partners in making the African Continental Free Trade Area a reality and streamline existing trade frameworks – particularly rules of origin – while expanding current agreements to include services, competition and intellectual property. It is equally important to improve the investment climate across Africa by fostering robust institutions, legal certainty and good governance.

"Stronger" EU-Africa relationship needed

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The EU-Africa relationship offers great investment and trade opportunities, according to Europe’s business community

The EU’s failure? Treating cyber purely as a crime rather than a hybrid threat, unlike NATO’s robust protocols. Just as national armed forces are integrated into defence strategies, offensive cyber capabilities need to be ramped up, with sanctions applied as a form of deterrence. Ignoring these measures will only invite more destructive attacks.

Europe Under Fire: Cyberattacks Expose EU’s Vulnerability

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 24, 2025

As NATO leaders scramble over Russian airspace violations, hackers bring European airports to a standstill, revealing the EU’s digital fragility.

There was the humiliation of the recently departed Prime Minister François Bayrou, the warnings of spiralling debt and the prospect of the French economy needing to be bailed out by the IMF.

Why France is at risk of becoming the new sick man of Europe

By: EBR | Monday, September 22, 2025

Some people in France were upset to learn this week that their political chaos was being laughed at… by the Italians.

Europeans have been disappointingly limited militarily in relation to Ukraine, but their defence outreach is set to be surprisingly daunting. Whether wearing NATO or EU hats, their armed forces have been constrained more by politics than by operational weaknesses. A ‘no-fly’ policy to prevent Russian air attacks or ‘tripwire forces’ on Ukraine’s eastern borders of ‘tripwire forces’ have been deadlocked by political wrangling rather than practical barriers.

The EU must define its red lines in a tough new security doctrine

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Realpolitik, greatly enhanced by television, has in recent weeks sent an embarrassing message around the world – the European Union isn’t the global player it claims to be

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UN climate summit leaves fossil fuels out of the picture

N. Peter KramerBy: N. Peter Kramer

It was supposed to be a historic UN climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém, thirty years after the first and ten years after the successful Paris summit, a new step in limiting greenhouse gas emissions would be taken.

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Same-sex marriage must be respected throughout EU, top court tells Poland

Same-sex marriage must be respected throughout EU, top court tells Poland

Poland has been told to recognise same-sex marriages registered elsewhere in the European Union, in a ruling by the EU’s top court.

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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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