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Many executives cite regulation as an obstacle to reinventing business models. Resilient leaders engage in dialogue with policymakers, individually and through business associations, proposing functional alternatives rather than merely complaining about inefficiencies.

CEO in a World of Pressure: Real Challenges, Real Lessons, Real Resilience

There comes a moment in every chief executive’s life when the tools that once brought success no longer work because the playing field has changed.

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

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.

Spain has refused to allow the use of air bases on its territory for attacks on Iran. The US has two military bases in Spain, Naval Station Rota and Morón Air Base.

Nato says ’no provision’ to expel members after report US could seek to suspend Spain

Nato says there is no provision for member states to be suspended or expelled from the military alliance after a report said the US could seek to suspend Spain over its Iran war stance.

The EU’s ambivalence on Turkey is a long-standing theme. For a long time, the main intellectual cleavage was about the country’s eventual union membership. Despite being a candidate country and having started formal accession negotiations in 2005, the prospect of Turkish membership remained a controversial issue.

The EU Equivocating on Turkey Is Bad Geopolitics

Following Ursula von der Leyen’s gaffe equating Turkey to Russia and China, relations with Ankara risk deteriorating even further. Without better, more consistent diplomatic messaging, how can the EU pretend to be a geopolitical power?

The Iran shock is accelerating a reordering with a redistribution of hydrocarbon rents. The diffusion of EV’s is being forced via through price pain at the gas station. Trade and currency blocs may also be hardening.

Ten Inconvenient Truths About the Energy Implications of the Iran Crisis

Yes, the Iran crisis is a matter of global security. But it is also an event redistributing market shares in a declining hydrocarbon system.

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The case for a more muscular posture in Lebanon is self-evident. This would neither be a mandate against Israel nor against the Shia Lebanese. It would be a mandate in favor of international law, and in support of an imperfect and flawed democracy that, in the region, most embodies European values of plurality, liberty, and freedom of speech.

Analyses

France, Italy, and Spain Should Use Force in Lebanon

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Europe has been standing by while its Southern neighborhood is being redrawn by force. To establish a path to peace between Israel and Lebanon, it’s time for Europeans to get involved with hard power.

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The reforms strategy stems from hard-hitting analyses by two former Italian prime ministers, Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi, of the EU Single Market’s fragmented nature 35 years after its ‘completion’ in 1992. Both have repeatedly voiced concerns that progress is far too slow.

Analyses

The oh-so-slow Draghi/Letta plan to ’save Europe’

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Giles Merritt looks back at the fate of earlier Single Market initiatives, and complains of déjà vu and lessons unlearned.

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On the other hand, flexible work must not be associated with job insecurity, and the existence of mechanisms that ensure a decent guaranteed income and protect labor rights regardless of the type of employment lay the groundwork for secure conditions of resistance and integration in the face of the impending automation of labor. 

Management

A new social contract in the age of social intelligence

Friday, April 17, 2026

When Rousseau spoke of the “Social Contract,” he was referring to labor, stating that it constitutes “a fundamental factor in the integration of individuals into society as well as a dynamic parameter for the redistribution of wealth.”

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Many airlines around the world have had to take emergency measures to counter the rising cost of fuel, which typically makes up 20-40% of their operating costs.

Europe

Europe has ’maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left’, energy boss warns

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left", the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned.

AI accelerates the targeting cycle to a tempo at which meaningful human oversight is too often procedurally present but substantively empty. Meaningful judgment would mean reviewing target identification, assessing proportionality, and deciding whether to strike. Now, the human remains present—but without real time to contest the machine.

Analyses

The Fog of AI War

Thursday, April 16, 2026

In Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran, AI warfare has come to dominate, with barely any oversight or accountability. Europe must lead the charge on the responsible use of new military technologies.

Candidate countries can and should be involved in Europe’s ongoing rearmament and force-modernization drive. These three NATO members have committed to scale up core defense spending from around 2 percent to 3.5 percent of their GDP, a target they could reach by the mid-2030s. They have signed security partnerships with the EU, paving the way for participation in union-wide schemes such as the European defense industry program.

Analyses

How to Join the EU in Three Easy Steps

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Montenegro and Albania are frontrunners for EU enlargement in the Western Balkans, but they can’t just sit back and wait. To meet their 2030 accession ambitions, they must make a strong positive case.

Mr Magyar, a former Orbán ally, hailed it as the largest turnout since the first elections after the fall of communism in 1990 and said he had won the largest mandate in Hungary’s democratic history.

World

Orban ousted in Hungarian election landslide

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Victorious Peter Magyar, of centre-Right Tisza party, expected to pursue closer relations with EU and Nato

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Some analysts argue that, just as parts of the far right mobilise identity politics to appeal to specific constituencies, segments of the left may be seeking to consolidate support among Muslim voters. Critics warn these risks oversimplifying complex issues and deepening divisions.

Analyses

Antisemitism in Europe Rises After 7 October: Far Left and Greens Under Scrutiny

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Antisemitism is increasing sharply across Europe since the Hamas attacks, the war in Gaza, and the Iranian conflict, with rhetoric from parts of the far left and the Greens increasingly blamed for deepening divisions.

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Schinas is now called upon to manage a sector in deep crisis of confidence in national institutions. In return, sources close to the government in Athens suggest he may be offered the chance to stand as a candidate lawmaker in northern Greece in next year’s national elections.

Europe

Schinas in the hot seat: Can he restore trust in Greek agriculture?

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Former Commission vice-president is tasked with managing a sector ravaged by scandal

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Nowadays, Cyprus is a member of the EU but not of NATO, due to Turkish occupation of the north of the island. The recent Hezbollah drone attack against Cyprus-based UK sovereign military bases resurfaced discussions on the matter.

Analyses

Cyprus wants British sovereign bases deal modelled on return of Chagos Islands

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

‘We are calling for a reassessment of the relationship and a renegotiation of the status on the terms of 2026,’ said lawmaker Chrisis Pantelides

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Macron has long advocated for European allies to build more conventional capabilities to better defend themselves and rely less on the United States. There has certainly been some measure of self-interest in expanding the market share of the French weapons industry, but that in itself isn’t a bad element.

World

On NATO, Trump Should Embrace France Instead of Bashing It

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Donald Trump’s repudiation of NATO goes against the Make America Great Again vision of a U.S.-centered foreign policy. If the goal is to preserve the alliance by boosting Europe’s commitments, leaning into France’s vision is the most America First way forward.

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Three panicky European Councils brought EU heads of government together in the first quarter of 2026, even though the chances of unanimity were slim. Their idea must have been to convey urgency and determination, but instead signalled impotence.

Europe

The EU must rescue its global reputation now that it’s at risk

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Giles Merritt urges EU policymakers to confront waning respect around the world by using the brash new communications tools of the information age.

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EU Actually

Von der Leyen puts NATO member and EU candidate country Turkey in line with Russia and China

N. Peter KramerBy: N. Peter Kramer

According to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, you can put Russia, Turkey and China in line.

Europe

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

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

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.

Business

Where Romania can build excellence: the sources of future competitiveness

Where Romania can build excellence: the sources of future competitiveness

Romania has been, for most of its recent history, a story of potential deferred. The standard account of Romanian competitiveness, to the extent one exists in international business literature, is a cost story: cheap labor, low corporate taxes, a large domestic market for Central and Eastern European standards.

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