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The European Commission should appoint a senior Syria coordinator, tasked with aligning fragmented responses across EU development funds, diplomatic services, and the European Investment Bank. A dedicated Syria reconstruction working group with mandatory member state participation would prevent contradictory policies that undermine credibility.

Can EU Still Matter in Syria?

Europe’s interests in Syria extend beyond migration management, yet the EU trails behind other players in the country’s post-Assad reconstruction. To boost its influence in Damascus, the union must upgrade its commitment to ensuring regional stability.

For Europe, the lesson is pointed. Eight European leaders in New Delhi this week is more than optics. It is recognition that India’s AI ecosystem — its engineering depth, its digital public infrastructure, its billion-plus user base, its IndiaAI Mission — is significantly more than a supporting character in the global AI story.

The Week That Changed Everything: EU–India After the FTA, the AI Summit and the End of Strategic Ambiguity

What New Delhi’s February Moment Means for Europe — and Why Central and Eastern Europe Must Now Step Forward

The auditors found that the EU’s high-level specifications for member states’ anti-fraud systems, as set out in the RRF Regulation, were not sufficiently detailed.

EU auditors highlight "fraud" in COVID fund

The EU’s €650 billion COVID recovery fund, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), continues to show multiple weaknesses in fraud detection, reporting and correction, according to a new report by the European Court of Auditors (ECA).

The United States remains essential to both Europe and India, both economically and strategically. Under Trump, however, the risk of volatility may become a permanent feature of the relationship. The EU–India FTA, on the other hand, provides a steady basis for two markets that increasingly value predictability as a competitive advantage.

The New Trade Triangle: EU–India–US

Trump cut US tariffs on India just weeks after Brussels signed its FTA, but the EU still offers the only long-term, rules-based framework New Delhi seeks.

Are the hundreds of billions for defense being spent wisely, in for 95 percent traditional weapons? At the Munich Security Conference Moritz Schularick, director of the specialised research Kiel Institute, said that over 800 billion euros in additional investment in the next years are ‘no guarantee that Europe will become more secure!’. He advocated for greater attention to innovation.

After a painful NATO exercise: are all those billions for defense being spent wisely?

NATO reported on its website about a large-scale exercise organised by a multinational battlegroup in Estonia. The soldiers had to train in temperatures of 20 degrees below zero. The military alliance is investing significant resources in defending its eastern flank.

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Likeminded, capable, and willing member states can move forward on supercharging the EU’s economic firepower by deepening the single market, completing the capital markets union and banking union, and consolidating industry. The formation of specialized subgroups within the whole should no longer be seen as a negative to avoid, but rather as a necessary flexibility without which the European project cannot survive.

Analyses

To Survive, the EU Must Split

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Leaning into a multispeed Europe that includes the UK is the way Europeans don’t get relegated to suffering what they must, while the mighty United States and China do what they want.

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Emmanuel Macron warned that "today Europe faces a massive challenge, in a world of disorder"

Europe

Macron urges EU to start acting like world power

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Europe to assert itself on the world stage, saying it is time to start acting like a "power".

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It’s clear, meanwhile, that the idea of a hugely powerful BRICS bloc is a non-starter. Russia’s inclusion is only part of the problem; above all, there’s the challenge of finding common economic interests between Brazil, India, China and South Africa. The only real binding agent is shared political opposition to US or EU initiatives.

Analyses

The EU must take the lead in a ’new world order’ of trade blocs

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Giles Merritt looks at the EU’s leadership opportunities in a world to be transformed by massive demographic convulsions.

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The Munich Security Conference organisers have published a report ahead of the event in which Tobias Bunde, the director of research & policy, says there has now been a fundamental break with US post-WW2 strategy.

World

Trump’s world order hangs over Europe on eve of key defence conference

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

It is one year since US Vice-President JD Vance delivered a bombshell speech at the Munich Security Conference, castigating Europe for its policies on migration and free speech, and claiming the greatest threat the continent faces comes from within.

USA@250 is not, formally, a grand strategy. It is a commemorative platform. Yet its timing matters. The United States enters its 250th year while the global system is being reshaped by industrial policy, technological rivalry, demographic divergence, and security fragmentation. Domestically, the anniversary is an attempt to rebuild civic confidence and institutional legitimacy. Externally, it unfolds in direct comparison with long-horizon projects elsewhere, most notably China’s 2049 goal of national rejuvenation.

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USA@250 and the Rising World’s Agendas and Visions: EU lessons

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

In 2026, the United States will mark a symbolic milestone: 250 years since 1776. The official “America250” framework presents the semiquincentennial as a civic moment, a pause for reflection, renewal, and national storytelling. For Europeans, it may appear as an inward-looking exercise, heavy on symbolism and light on strategy.

Various US presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, deliberately demonstrated their strength toward Japan. John F. Kennedy’s naval blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s, which famously brought the world to the brink of nuclear war while pushing Moscow to negotiate. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan used aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Sidra to bomb Libya, but not a formal declaration of war.

Europe

Trump’s ‘Armada’ to Iran and the Return of Gunboat Diplomacy

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

US naval buildup in the Persian Gulf is putting pressure on the Ayatollahs, but it also raises the risk of military escalation, regional conflict, and dangerous miscalculation.

The CRM Act sets only non-binding targets by 2030, and these apply only to a small number of raw materials, regarded as ‘strategic’ due to their high economic importance and supply risks. It is also unclear how the levels to be reached by 2030 were determined.

Europe

EU "trapped in a vicious circle" on raw materials

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

The EU is having difficulties securing the supply of the raw materials it needs to meet its energy and climate goals. This is the conclusion of a new report by the European Court of Auditors (ECA).

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Apart from limited demining support, Baku has received little in the way of EU financial assistance for post-conflict recovery, including the rebuilding of its recovered territories, a process it has so far financed largely from its own budget at a cost of roughly €14 billion ($16.5 billion) since 2020.

Europe

EU Falls Behind in the South Caucasus Connectivity Race

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

The EU lacks leadership and strategic planning in the South Caucasus, while the United States is leading the charge. To secure its geopolitical interests, Brussels must invest in new connectivity for the region.

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The American plutocrats support Europe’s autocrats so ardently because they hope that, following these proto-fascist parties‘ electoral victories, they will stand in the way of Europe sticking by its regulatory guns regarding the digital economy and digital media.

Analyses

The True Meaning of “Civilizational Erasure”

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Messrs. Vance, Musk and Thiel deliberately misdirect their claim of “civilizational erasure” solely on Europe. Their real goal is to distract from the universal challenges.

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Long a supporter of a rules-based international order — one that has underpinned its rapid growth — New Delhi has found itself increasingly vulnerable under the revived “America First” agenda. The once-vaunted personal rapport between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trump proved a fragile substitute for institutional trust, exposing the limits of personalised diplomacy.

Analyses

The Mother of All Deals: EU’s FTA with India

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

The EU–India free trade deal isn’t just about tariffs — it’s about Trump, China and the end of the rules based international order.

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The under-35s averagely pay a greater proportion of their earnings in taxation than their elders, contend with sky-high housing costs, and according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) own only 5% of Europe’s net asset wealth in property or financial holdings.

Analyses

Coming soon: an EU plan to combat youth poverty

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Giles Merritt reports on an ambitious strategy for tackling the barriers that confront Europe’s under-35s, and highlights the obstacles to be overcome.

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Fidesz is not merely a ruling party but a revolutionary political force that has used institutions and public resources to systematically reshape the Hungarian state. Over the past decade, Orbán has also invested tens of millions of euros in building a global illiberal network, with himself at the center.

Europe

New Tricks and AI Tools in Hungary’s High-Stakes Election

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faces his most serious challenge yet in the April 2026 parliamentary elections. All of Europe should monitor the Fidesz campaign: It will use unprecedented methods of electoral manipulation to secure victory and maintain power.

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After a painful NATO exercise: are all those billions for defense being spent wisely?

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NATO reported on its website about a large-scale exercise organised by a multinational battlegroup in Estonia. The soldiers had to train in temperatures of 20 degrees below zero. The military alliance is investing significant resources in defending its eastern flank.

Europe

EU auditors highlight "fraud" in COVID fund

EU auditors highlight "fraud" in COVID fund

The EU’s €650 billion COVID recovery fund, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), continues to show multiple weaknesses in fraud detection, reporting and correction, according to a new report by the European Court of Auditors (ECA).

Business

The Week That Changed Everything: EU–India After the FTA, the AI Summit and the End of Strategic Ambiguity

The Week That Changed Everything: EU–India After the FTA, the AI Summit and the End of Strategic Ambiguity

What New Delhi’s February Moment Means for Europe — and Why Central and Eastern Europe Must Now Step Forward

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