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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?

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

As the name implies, MAGA harks back to some mythical past when the United States of America was great. In Trump’s telling, that America was destroyed by evil leaders such as the Clintons, Barack Hussein Obama and Sleepy Joe Biden – all men who allowed Canada, Mexico, China, the European Union and the rest to rob, rape and pillage the United States.

Trump and Putin: Reflections on the U.S.-Russian Victimhood Alliance

By: EBR | Friday, April 25, 2025

If Trump’s and Putin’s political success depends on their supporters’ sense of frustration and resentment, why would they want to improve their lot?

The NHI cloud facilitates the more efficient exchange of medical records, while the adoption of international standards such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources enhances international medical data sharing. Additionally, the incorporation of AI-assisted technologies is advancing the development of smart healthcare. And the introduction of a virtual health insurance card and the My Health Bank app, which enables real-time management of personal health data, empowers people to make health-enabling choices.

Advancing health equity and promoting a healthier Taiwan on the 30th anniversary of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance system

By: EBR | Thursday, April 24, 2025

Health is a fundamental human right and a universal value

Where it has gotten challenging is that while Meloni shares some fundamental values and policy preferences with Trump—like the primacy of national interests, antiwokeism, and a civilizational view of social issues—his view of international relations is fundamentally upending and weakening multilateralism, thus endangering the basis of Italy’s role in the world.

Can Meloni save the Transatlantic Alliance?

By: EBR | Thursday, April 24, 2025

After Donald Trump initiated a global trade war, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is leveraging her personal ties with the U.S. president to save the transatlantic alliance.To advance European and Italian interests, Rome should advocate a global order based on shared institutions and norms that maximize benefits for all.

Priced out of the United States and potentially other traditional markets by defensive safeguard measures, many firms will search for new supply and demand opportunities. Beyond helping with the arduous task of screening for new partners and commercial opportunities, AI will be important in making these new trade flows viable.

Navigating global trade: AI solutions for tariff turmoil

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The United States, the world’s largest importer, has put in place its highest tariffs for more than a hundred years

The wider group of the world’s cardinals later asked them to stop doing the briefings.Even if there are no press conferences this time, cardinals spending time in Rome often celebrate Masses at churches across the city. The sermons they offer on those occasions could give indications of what they are thinking.

Who will be the next pope? Some hints to watch for

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 23, 2025

No one knows who the world’s Catholic cardinals will choose to succeed Pope Francis as the new leader of the global Catholic Church

For Fidanza, Trump’s recent tariff suspension carries a broader geopolitical message: it signals US interest in forming a unified Western economic front to counterbalance China’s global industrial expansion. This strategy goes beyond merely addressing the US trade deficit, although that remains an important consideration given America’s substantial public debt.

Inside Meloni’s strategy ahead of her meeting with Trump

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Meloni aims to position herself as a catalyst capable of reigniting stalled EU-US trade dialogue

At a time of unprecedented Chinese competition, Trump’s policies are simultaneously severely weakening the twin fundamentals of American—and by extension Western—global dominance: its economic exceptionalism and the transatlantic alliance. This is the kind of turmoil the West has been immune to, despite previous considerable crises, because the United States had managed to remain a stable stalwart on fundamentals for eight decades.

The US is the west’s Achilles’ heel, but not all is doomed

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Trump’s policies are undermining Western hegemony. To face the upcoming AI revolution, Europeans should aim to rebalance and leverage transatlantic cooperation

Europe’s lack of investment in military capabilities has contributed to US frustrations. Trump’s push for Greenland reflects Washington’s view that Denmark and Europe failed to take the island’s security seriously. Though the US-led NATO was given the main security responsibility, the EU’s reliance on soft power, such as prioritising climate change and regional cooperation, left the region vulnerable.

The Great Game for the Arctic

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 2, 2025

As Trump revives his push for Greenland and Russia expands its Arctic presence, has Europe underestimated the region’s strategic importance?

"Discussions are ongoing among Allies regarding The Hague Summit and I wouldn’t want to get ahead of any conversations taking place," a senior US official said, though they did not respond to Euractiv’s question on the US stance. "Regarding Ukraine, all Allies agree that the death and destruction must stop. President Trump wants to promote peace, and at his direction we are ready to provide the decisive leadership necessary to reach a sustainable resolution," they added.

US keeps NATO allies in the dark on Russia relations

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 2, 2025

“We don’t talk about it,” one source revealed

A common Western China strategy is further away than ever. This strengthens China’s geopolitical position, which also means that the likelihood of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan or a total blockade of Taiwan at sea and in the air becomes more probable.All in all, this means that Donald Trump’s foreign and security policy with regard to Ukraine and Europe as well as China is increasing the risk of war worldwide. It is not only Ukraine and Europe that will suffer, but also the United States itself.

Trump’s Two Grave Geostrategic Errors

By: EBR | Thursday, March 27, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine and European policy is increasing the risk of a major war in Europe

So how could a global debate be kick-started? It’s unlikely that governments in Europe or elsewhere will want to initiate anything official, yet might welcome progress towards a revised and strengthened international rule of law.

Trump’s antics open way to an EU-led global rulebook re-think

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 26, 2025

There’s little international consensus in these times of turmoil, but the one thing everyone seems agreed on is that the post-World War 2 rules-based global order is finished

The Europeans could also build a special visa program for highly-qualified researchers, scientists, and innovators whose research grants and programs are being dismantled by the Trump administration. Strengthening Europe’s STEM standing will be critical for its strategic viability. And this could be the first building block of a longer-term overhaul of migration policy, to be developed in common with the UK, Canada, and Norway.

In Trump’s world, Europeans need their own sphere of influence

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 19, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to power has marked the resurgence of dividing the world into spheres of influence, leaving Europe at risk of being sidelined. Europeans must assert their influence by taking a firm stance on Ukraine and investing in the informational space.

In addition, the Istanbul Airport has become a hub for Russians travelling to Europe since Western airlines have refused to fly to Russia since the start of the war. Turkey may also be supplying some sanctioned goods to Russia.

What If Turkey Wanted Crimea Back?

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Contrary to what Putin wants to make all of us believe, Russia’s claims to the Crimean Peninsula are historically brittle.

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