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The proposition for the coming decade is more ambitious and more defensible. Build in Romania because it lets you manufacture inside the European Union and sell into the Single Market without tariff risk. Build here because it connects Central Europe to the Black Sea. Build here because Europe’s industrial and defence renewal is being written on its eastern flank. And build here because, sooner or later, Ukraine’s reconstruction will become one of the largest economic projects on the continent, and Romania is next door.

The Asian Century’s Next EU Factory

Western capital built Romania’s first manufacturing boom. Asian capital could build the second

Danuta Hubner, a former Polish MEP and European Commissioner

Senior political figures call for speeding up of EU/UK re-set

A former European Union commissioner has called for a re-set of EU/UK relations to be stepped up. Danuta Hubner, also a former Polish MEP, said Brexit “is not working.”

Le Pen’s pole position in the presidential race is not mainly driven by her positions on the war in Ukraine. But, given the specificity of the questions in the Harris poll, they shouldn’t be underestimated either.

How Le Pen Benefits from the Stalemate in Ukraine

The domestic impacts of how long it is taking to end the war in Ukraine have pushed the French electorate to the political extremes and compromised the country’s diplomatic capacity.

In previous rounds of EU enlargement, issues related to voting procedures were resolved before new members were brought in. Leading up to the 2004 enlargement, discussions centered on Poland’s role as the largest of the incoming countries. When Poland joined, it was allotted twenty-seven votes in the council, roughly equivalent to Spain’s weight, despite the latter’s population being about 60 percent larger.

The Uncomfortable Truth About EU Enlargement

Before the next wave of EU enlargement takes place, the union needs to grapple with thorny questions of how power is distributed among its members.

When Andy Burnham, now Britain’s prime minister, arrived in the Commons in 2001, he signed House of Commons motions about the marbles with other MPs.

After the Bayeux Tapestry Why Not the Parthenon Marbles?

Britain needs friends in Europe. Finally returning the Parthenon Marbles to Athens would be a good start toward gaining one.

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The lesson from Stockholm to New York is increasingly clear. Progressive parties are discovering that voters are less interested in symbolic cultural battles than in whether they can afford a home, access a doctor, pay their energy bills or build a decent future for their children.

Analyses

The End of Woke? Why Progressives Are Returning to Bread-and-Butter Politics

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

As living standards stagnate and the populist right advances, progressive parties across the US and Europe are putting wages, housing, healthcare and economic security back at the heart of politics.

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For Europeans, the conclusion must be that a new path to supporting Ukraine’s economic resilience, now under heavy strain, lies in resetting Europe’s relations with African and Middle Eastern countries—the same countries that both face the worst global food insecurity and can make the case to Putin that he must agree to a truce.

Analyses

A Black Sea Truce Is About Global Food Security, Too

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

A summer of escalation in the Black Sea has hurt Ukraine economically and is exacerbating world food security. A truce is needed—as is a broader reframing of Europe’s Ukraine strategy.

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In a recent interview, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan renewed objections centered on what Ankara describes as the “militarization” of eastern Aegean islands and on the resumption of surveys for the Greece-Cyprus electricity interconnection project.

Europe

Clouds gather over the Aegean

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Beyond the exchange of statements, signs point to further strain in Greek-Turkish relations.

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Mr Merz is facing pressure to resign over his failure to reform Germany’s ailing economy and hold back the rise of AfD.

Europe

Merz vows to fight on despite election ‘disaster’

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

German leader’s party on course for worst ever result, with AfD having surged in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and hard-Left forecast to win Berlin

Despite historical challenges, hotlines provide a useful model for crisis communication. But any new channel will need to address the shortcomings that have held previous U.S.–China crisis communication back and adapt to the demands posed by frontier AI.

World

The U.S. and China Need an AI Hotline. Here’s How to Build It.

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

It should address the shortcomings of previous crisis communication efforts and adapt to the demands of frontier AI.

he US continues to blame higher oil prices on the Iranian attacks, ignoring the obvious reality that before the war there was uninterrupted freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. In the meantime, and to avoid the Strait of Hormuz becoming a stranglehold on their oil exports, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been working on alternatives such as the building of new oil terminal ports downstream and new pipelines across land to the Gulf of Aden and the Suez Canal.

Analyses

The US war against Iran: six months in and nothing to justify going to war thus far

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

An American historian was once asked to give a succinct judgement on the result of the Second World War. “Well”, he said, “it defeated the Nazis in Germany, the Fascists in Italy and the militarists in Japan – and never was the cause of justice more finely served”. If only it were that simple and straightforward.

Just as importantly, BRICS has expanded beyond its original membership through partner countries and the BRICS Plus format, allowing dozens of emerging economies to engage with a platform that increasingly claims to speak for developing nations. The real story, however, was the New Delhi Declaration itself.

Analyses

Beyond the Brussels Bubble: BRICS’ Expanding Power Cannot Be Ignored

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

As media attention focuses on von der Leyen’s SOTEU, the BRICS summit in New Delhi reveals how emerging powers are building an alternative centre of global influence.

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"Restoring confidence in the UN must begin with treating every member of the international community in a fair and just way. Transformation cannot be complete while a constructive and trustworthy member remains unjustly excluded."

Interviews

Restoring trust: Taiwan’s rightful place in the free world

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The rules-based international order is under growing strain as authoritarian states seek to weaken its safeguards and reshape international rule to serve their own interests.

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The EU needs to bring its migration and democracy policies in line with each other. Increased cooperation with autocratic regimes on border control should always be matched with increased support for democratic actors in civil society and concerted diplomatic pressure for at least some areas of political liberalization.

Europe

EU Fails to Learn the Lessons from Ceuta

Friday, September 11, 2026

The aftermath of the Ceuta crisis shows Europe has drawn the wrong lessons. Rather than doubling down on failed migration policies, the EU needs to address the underlying roots of such episodes.

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Putin is cornered, and according to his perverse logic must take a huge risk. He must provoke NATO in an unprecedented way. He must invade NATO territory. He would not invade a full country of course, since he does not have the bandwidth for that. He would attack just a tiny corner of one.

Analyses

Why Putin’s Next Move in his War Against Ukraine is Against Europe

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

With Ukraine’s momentum shifting, Putin may be calculating that a lightning strike on NATO’s eastern flank is his only way out.

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Dr George Zairis is an economist and a Director in Business Advisory at Grant Thornton Luxembourg, where he specialises in advisory services to EU and Public Sector.

Analyses

Iceland’s Referendum: A Critical “No” at an Even More Critical Juncture

Monday, September 7, 2026

Between wars, tariffs and even rather unusual demands to rename some of the world’s most famous bodies of water, another big event took place few days ago, this time in Europe’s far north.

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Mr Milei is expected to sign a decree to speed up the planned sanctions, which would accelerate enforcement procedures ⁠under Argentine law ⁠against those participating in oil extraction in territory Argentina considers its ‌own.

World

Milei: Argentina ‘will prevail’ over declining Britain

Monday, September 7, 2026

President says UK is a country in crisis as he announces plans to impose sanctions on oil drilling off Falklands

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EU Actually

Even Fox News participates in boycott of the White House after excluding CNN

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In his weekly column N. Peter Kramer writes about President Trump’s denying CNN, Politico and MS reporters access to the White House press conferences. The three news media are going to court!

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Senior political figures call for speeding up of EU/UK re-set

Senior political figures call for speeding up of EU/UK re-set

A former European Union commissioner has called for a re-set of EU/UK relations to be stepped up. Danuta Hubner, also a former Polish MEP, said Brexit “is not working.”

Business

Businesscraft: Japan’s Quiet Discipline for a Fractured World

Businesscraft: Japan’s Quiet Discipline for a Fractured World

For almost thirty years after the end of the Cold War, geopolitics stayed away from the corporate boardroom. Geopolitical considerations belonged to the foreign ministry or to a dedicated risk committee back at headquarters, and rarely crossed a CEO’s desk.

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