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While the Civic Platform chose Rafal Trzaskowski, the Mayor of Warsaw, a nice liberal politician like London Mayor Sadiq Khan, to be its candidate for President, the PiS allowed Nawrocki to run as an “independent,” albeit one who, like PiS politicians, is an anti-abortion, anti-EU, anti-gay, anti-woke candidate.

Sobering News from Poland: Advantage PiS and Nawrocki

Poland’s new President, a strident nationalist, is politically close to Trump and Farage — and a potential misfortune for the EU‘s political center.

At the same time, he will likely support military aid for Ukraine. He holds no sympathy for Russian President Vladimir Putin and recognizes that Ukraine’s victory is vital to Poland’s interests. As a result, it will be difficult for him to align with Washington if U.S. President Donald Trump pursues a reset with Moscow.

Razor-Thin and deeply divided: The Polish election shock

The election of populist Karol Nawrocki as Poland’s president poses challenges to the country’s reform agenda and deeper EU integration. Yet, the narrow result underscores that Poland still has a strong, resilient pro-European democratic core.

Between dependence and deterrence: Recasting the transatlantic relationship

The Pentagon has it right: Mutual interest and common sense, not pseudo-intellectual exercises in civilizational splittism, ought to govern the U.S.’s relationship with Europe

Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission is increasingly criticised for a reluctance to pursue member states that dilute or openly flout the rules. The internal market, say critics, now exists in name only. A new IMF report agrees, reckoning the hidden costs of trading across Europe’s national frontiers to be equivalent to a tariff of 45% on goods and 110% on services.

To save the Single Market, bring back Delors’ 1992 playbook

Most people familiar with EU affairs know the single market is a myth. Hailed as the bedrock of the European Union, it was never completed and is now crumbling.

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Germany’s long-awaited pivot to leading Europe

Chancellor German Friedrich Merz is wasting no time in reshaping Berlin’s role in Europe and farther afield. To achieve his foreign policy objectives, the chancellor must have a strategic outlook and demonstrate conviction

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Until then, it is worth revisiting, from time to time, the central assertion regarding natural rights in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Europe

The U.S. State Department’s artful misreading of contemporary Europe

Monday, June 2, 2025

Does Europe really need a crusade from American shores to save it? On the dangers of using the history of Western intellectual thought to conflate questions of legal governance with political persecution.

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Making the situation even more complicated are the structural challenges within the British economy. The National Health Service, social care, and hospitality sectors are heavily reliant on migrant workers, most of whom come from non-EU countries. Starmer’s push to tighten visa requirements for low-wage industries risks triggering labour shortages and undermining his drive for economic growth — a key pillar of his government’s success — pitting political promises against economic realities. Business leaders warn that without overseas staff, the UK’s fragile recovery could easily stumble.

Analyses

Starmer’s international wins can’t hide his domestic migration headaches

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Despite international deals, the UK prime minister faces rising pressure from Reform UK, internal Labour critics, and voters demanding tougher border controls

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But those in Europe who say broaching the topic and presenting a plan would encourage the Trump administration to abandon the Europeans infantilize their American counterparts. Also, Europeans cannot keep pretending that every single capability the United States provides is irreplaceable and unattainable. It undermines their own credibility and desirability as allies. If everything is vital, nothing is.

Europe

The irresistible plan Europeans can offer Trump to save NATO

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

At the next NATO summit, Europeans have an opportunity to set new conditions for decades to come. They can strengthen the alliance by committing to a timeline that allows for a U.S. drawdown while preserving American strategic enablers

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First of all, my train from Paris to Frankfurt departed two hours late. This is not entirely surprising. German trains are frequently very late or cancelled — something which is quite rare in France.

Europe

Germany goes loopy

Monday, May 26, 2025

Let me first dispel the myth that all Germans speak English. It is quite simply not true.

Five decades ago, American Jews represented about 20% of Harvard undergraduates. Some critics claim that the decline in Jewish enrollment to 10% indicates a less welcoming attitude at Harvard. But in fact, the decrease reflects the dramatic changes in the racial composition of a class.Fifty years ago, the student body was about 80% white and 12% Black — with a small percentage of Asian Americans. The demographics have changed dramatically since then.

Analyses

Trump escalates his war on the Ivy League

Monday, May 26, 2025

The Trump Administration has launched an assault on Ivy League universities in an unprecedented attack on academic freedom.

Analyses

EU and the New World (Dis)Order

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Germany and Europe face a period of strategic uncertainty. How to use it constructively?

Strategic connectivity offers a clear area for EU-Turkey alignment, particularly through the so-called Middle Corridor, a trade and transportation route that links Central Asia and the South Caucasus to Europe via the Caspian Sea and Turkey. Both Brussels and Ankara view this east–west corridor as a critical alternative to Russia-controlled infrastructure, especially since the war in Ukraine.

World

Why the EU needs Turkey in the South Caucasus

Thursday, May 22, 2025

As the South Caucasus undergoes a strategic realignment, the EU and Turkey have an opportunity to recalibrate their engagement. Converging interests in connectivity, stability, and regional integration might foster cooperation if long-standing assumptions are set aside

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“It has since emerged that the invitation came from a person who is currently under investigation by the Belgian authorities and who intended to speak to me about Huawei during the match,” Attard wrote. The MEP discussed Huawei with the person in question and later met them in Strasbourg.

Business

Belgian prosecutors target MEPs in Huawei probe

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

So far three MEPs have confirmed that the Belgians want Parliament to lift their immunity

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Two members of the Brussels commission include age-related responsibilities in their portfolios – Croatia’s Dubravka Suica has demography as part of her Mediterranean overview, and Malta’s Glenn Micallef lists  ‘intergenerational fairness’ along with youth activities and sport. Neither has the budget and a directorate-general to suggest determined EU policy initiatives are in the pipeline.

Analyses

It’s time for an EU Action Plan to address the impact of Europe’s ageing

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

It’s risky to predict anything nowadays

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Ulcinj could become a pilot site for the EU to demonstrate what meaningful membership looks like—long before formal accession. The EU could actively support alternative models of development there, including investment in ecotourism infrastructure. It could also help pilot participatory urban planning models that involve local residents, municipalities, and civil society, as a demonstration of EU membership in tangible terms.

World

Montenegro’s gulf deal: A strategic lesson for the EU

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

The agreement allowing the UAE to invest in Montenegro’s coastline has triggered local protests. The EU must rethink how it engages with enlargement, and step in with alternative investments that promote EU values

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Some Labour ministers use Theresa May’s slogan she “would make Brexit work.” That is an oxymoron. When the very conservative governor of the Bank of England says here will be no growth if we continue to set our faces against trade with Europe that is an ex-cathedra statement saying Adieu to Brexit.

Europe

The ancient mariners of Brexit are losing the plot

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

So the white smoke emerged from Whitehall as the Prime Minister didn’t quite say “Habemas a Deal”. at the end of the much hyped UK-EU reset talks

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The diplomat, who took up his post last June, said that “despite external pressures” the “good news” was that China’s economy had shown its resilience in a way that “many would not have predicted.” The country’s GDP last year, he told the meeting, grew by 5% which, while not comparing with even higher figures in previous years, “is quite impressive.”

World

Dialogue is the way to settle dispute, says top Chinese diplomat

Monday, May 19, 2025

Fei Shengchao, China’s ambassador to Brussels, spoke of “rising tensions” caused to world trade as a result of President Trump’s tariffs. He was addressing international reporters and others on the issue of world trade and tariffs at the Press Club Brussels-Europe

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Dutch government collapses on immigration policies

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The far-right PVV, Geert Wilders’ party, withdraw from the Dutch governing coalition

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Germany’s long-awaited pivot to leading Europe

Germany’s long-awaited pivot to leading Europe

Chancellor German Friedrich Merz is wasting no time in reshaping Berlin’s role in Europe and farther afield. To achieve his foreign policy objectives, the chancellor must have a strategic outlook and demonstrate conviction

Business

To save the Single Market, bring back Delors’ 1992 playbook

To save the Single Market, bring back Delors’ 1992 playbook

Most people familiar with EU affairs know the single market is a myth. Hailed as the bedrock of the European Union, it was never completed and is now crumbling.

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