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Europe needs to adjust quickly to the fact that the new U.S. interventionism in European domestic politics is a feature, not a bug, of a politically reshaped America. European political actors must move quickly beyond their surprise at such actions and converge soon around a common stance of principled objection, while considering what further steps they can employ both in terms of their own communication strategies and legal and regulatory responses.

A Less Democratic America: Implications for Europe

Since his return to power, U.S. President Donald Trump has relentlessly questioned and challenged democracy at home and abroad. In an increasingly illiberal world, the U.S. withdrawal from democratic leadership offers Europe a chance to step up by reenergizing its global purpose, forging new alliances, and championing values of unity

This time Belarus insists it has nothing to hide.Representatives of 23 states, including the US, Turkey and Hungary, watched the military exercise."We consider that the exercise is unprecedented in its transparency," Major General Valery Revenko, assistant to the Belarusian defence minister, told journalists at the training ground.

Belarus and Russia’s show of firepower appears to be a message to Europe

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 17, 2025

In a large field 45 miles (72km) from Belarus’ capital Minsk, a battle is raging

Putin’s attack on Poland happened to occur on the eve of the annual State of the Union address by the EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, to MEPs. She proposed that the EU funds what she called a “drone wall” and a space surveillance system for Europe’s Northeastern flank with Russia including the Baltic states and Poland.

Putin tries it on with Poland and aims to drag Europe into his war of conquest

By: EBR | Monday, September 15, 2025

Russia’s war on Ukraine rekindles Poland’s centuries-old vigilance against Moscow’s aggression

Regrettably, despite Taiwan’s significant global contributions, it remains largely unrecognized by the international community and is unable to participate in the United Nations system. Taiwan’s unwarranted exclusion stems from China’s deliberate misrepresentation of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758. The resolution is falsely linked with the so-called “one China principle” and continues to be wrongfully weaponized to block Taiwan’s participation.

“Chip in with Taiwan” for Global Peace and Prosperity

By: EBR | Friday, September 12, 2025

Today, the world faces mounting uncertainties and challenges—from prolonged conflicts and democratic backsliding to economic coercion and disinformation campaigns

Around sixty people, including opposition politicians, street demonstrators, and the editor of an independent newspaper, are now in jail. They are essentially political prisoners. The country’s foreign-influence law is starting to curtail the activities of Georgia’s once-thriving nongovernmental sector.

Time for EU decisions on Georgia

By: EBR | Thursday, September 4, 2025

Away from the daily headlines, Georgia’s rapid retreat from democracy continues apace. This fall could be crucial in determining whether and how Europe can push back and impose costs on those who are taking the country backward

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s instinct to set up what’s now called “the coalition of the willing” to prepare security guarantees for Ukraine was the right one. But it has fallen short. Too many European countries are still paralyzed out of acting militarily in the absence of U.S. involvement. And the few who aren’t, keep repeating like a mantra that they wouldn’t deploy troops before a ceasefire, which is all the motivation Putin needs to scupper any such deal.

Europe’s summer of Trump delusion

By: EBR | Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Despite a shifting global order, Europe keeps playing by the old handbook. To become a truly geopolitical power, the EU and its member states must assert their economic and military strength both in trade negotiations and on the Ukrainian battlefield

The EU is capable of sudden and profound shifts once it commits to specific objectives. It is also capable of acting with determination. It created the Schengen Area for passport-free movement for citizens of many European states and managed to hold onto and even enlarge that area despite the 2015 migration crisis.

Betting on Europe

By: EBR | Thursday, July 17, 2025

The rift between Brussels and Washington raises questions about which side will emerge stronger. The Europeans are laying the groundwork to enhance their power and have already proved their ability to withstand epochal change

"There were moments last week where I believe it was almost palpable that there was an agreement nearly in place, and really what needs to happen in the hours and days ahead is a renewed effort to arrive at an agreement that can protect jobs, can protect economic stability in Ireland, in Europe and in the United States."

US-EU framework trade deal was ’tantalisingly close’

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 16, 2025

A framework agreement on trade between the United States and the European Union (EU) was "tantalisingly close" before US President Donald Trump threatened to impose 30% tariffs on imports from the EU, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Harris has said

Nevertheless, these developments have not girded their loins. Spooked by Trump’s brutality, unpredictability, and volatility, Europeans have sought to placate him with promises to spend vast amounts of their scarce euros on American products. This will come at the expense of building more European security of supply and more industrial capacity—and hence more sovereignty and autonomy—while Washington regularly proves it is no longer as reliable as it once was.

EU’s claim to geopolitical power isn’t passing the Trump test

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Europe has become more dependent on the United States to appease Trump. To assert itself as a true geopolitical force, the EU must deepen ties with partners who value its reliable and diplomatic approach

Latin America at the crossroads: Reviving nuclear leadership for a safer world

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Once a global leader in nuclear disarmament, Latin America faces a critical decision: Reclaim its moral authority or risk irrelevance.

But Donald Trump goes much further than that. He has argued for decades that the EU was created after the Second World War to “rip off” the United States.I know this is completely wrong. How so? Because, at the start of my career as a U.S. Foreign Service officer, I was assigned to European Affairs in the State Department from 1960 to 1962, working on European integration.

A century apart, two disastrous turns of U.S. policy toward Europe

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Former U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of CommerceWith Donald Trump claiming that the “EU is far nastier than China,” it is high time to take a closer look at U.S.-European relations.

Although [Trump] is leading his own country and much of the world into great danger, that doesn’t absolve Europe’s leaders from making a huge effort to repair the damage and to recover the EU’s fading influence.

Trump’s betrayal of the world’s poor is Europe’s opportunity

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Of all the chaos wreaked by Donald Trump, the most destructive and long-lasting will fall on the weakest, least resilient parts of the developing world

It is an attempt to solve problems that most nations face on the assumption that they may be more effectively addressed when guided by a mindset of cross-border cooperation.Deliberately mischaracterizing that constructive striving for cooperation with “globalist conformity” is, in the most innocuous of interpretations, a very transparent attempt to say “my way or the highway.”

Message to the U.S. crusaders: Asking for submission is Un-American

By: EBR | Monday, June 23, 2025

Yes, Europe is not part of the Trump brand of American civilization because asking for submission is un-American

At its factory in Douai, in northeastern France, an army of spark-spitting robots weld sections of steel to form car bodies, while on the main assembly line, automated systems mate together bodyshells, doors, batteries, motors and other parts, before human workers apply the finishing touches.

China’s electric cars are becoming slicker and cheaper - but is there a deeper cost?

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 10, 2025

In China, they call it the Seagull, and it has looks to match

By focusing on deliverables feasible over the next two years, such as reforms, elections, the disarming of Hamas, and deployment of a stabilization mission, instead of attempting once again to start by resolving the intractable issues of land swaps and refugee returns, the Franco-Saudi approach aims to deliver change as quickly as possible.

Europeans and Arabs must take historic steps toward a Palestinian State

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 10, 2025

After decades of conflict between Israel and Palestine, next week’s Franco-Saudi conference aims to take practical steps toward a two-state solution. To finally secure peace in the region, American, European, and Arab countries must commit to bold and decisive actions on the ground.

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.

Why the EU needs Turkey in the South Caucasus

By: EBR | 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

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.

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

By: EBR | 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

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.”

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

By: EBR | 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

Predicably President Trump did not like that and thereafter took to social media to blast her and to berate the service.And so, the competition for changing American minds and hearts after the outcome of the 2024 elections was off to the races.

“How to Be Brave” in the Age of Trump

By: EBR | Monday, May 12, 2025

As Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., put it in Berlin: “I am in the heart-changing business.”

Last elected in 2023, Erdogan cannot run again under the law unless an early election is called and is backed by three-fifths of parliament, for which he would need support beyond his ruling conservative coalition. A CHP public petition calling for Imamoglu’s freedom and early elections has surpassed 13 million signatures, according to Milliyet newspaper. The party did not respond when asked for the latest data.

Turkish support firms for jailed mayor Imamoglu vs Erdogan, polls show

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Popular support for Ekrem Imamoglu, the Istanbul mayor whose arrest sparked Turkey’s largest protests in a decade, has risen further above President Tayyip Erdogan since he was detained and jailed in March, opinion polls show

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