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Berlin, Paris and other EU capitals would like to strip powers from the EU chief diplomat Kaja Kallas and her EEAS to improve the EU’s response to geopolitical crises.

Has the EU diplomatic service EEAS had its day?

In his weekly column, N. Peter Kramer writes about proposals for a radical overhaul of the EEAS and the power struggle between Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas.

Trust between the frontline states and the other member states that must show solidarity with Greece, Italy, Spain and Cyprus will be crucial. This solidarity will only last if the countries on the external borders take their responsibility and do everything ‘by the book’.

Will the EU migration pact work?

In his weekly column, N. Peter Kramer writes about the new EU migration pact, that starts on Friday June 12 and demands trust and solidarity between the 27 member states.

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

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.

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

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.

Over the past two decades, the US has become one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers, while businesses have steadily reduced their reliance on petroleum.

Why the US economy keeps defying the odds

In Dresden, in east Germany late last year, the final car rolled off the assembly line at Volkswagen’s "Transparent Factory", built to showcase the pinnacle of European industrial power. Thousands of miles away in Spartanburg, South Carolina, a different German giant, BMW, is running its biggest plant in the world.