
The EU’s 2040 Target Is About Much More Than Just Climate
The EU’s ambition to slash carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2040 is challenged by internal divisions and global turmoil. But this target must cement a new era of European climate action, linked to innovation, competitiveness, and security.

The time is ripe for Eurobonds as Trump’s dollar weakens
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The havoc created by Donald Trump’s assault on the global economy is reviving calls for Eurobonds that would challenge the increasingly unstable US dollar as a safe haven.

France heads for political crisis as PM Bayrou risks all on confidence vote
By: EBR | Monday, September 1, 2025
France is on the brink of another political crisis, after Prime Minister François Bayrou’s shock decision to submit his government to a vote of confidence in parliament

Europe’s 2040 climate target isn’t just for environmentalists
By: EBR | Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Europe can’t decarbonise the world on its own. But it must develop policies that work so that other nations can copy and adapt them

Greek MEPs demand tariff-free trade in medicines as new deadline looms
By: EBR | Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Greek MEPs Papandreou and Tsiodras warn that US pharma tariffs threaten health and supply chains, urging the Commission to react accordingly.

The EU Needs Values-Based Engagement in the Southern Mediterranean
By: EBR | Thursday, July 3, 2025
As the EU prepares a new pact for its Southern neighborhood, the union should balance economic and security interests with support for civil society, political reforms, and inclusive governance
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How the EU can think creatively for sanctions on Russia
By: EBR | Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Ahead of Thursday’s European Council summit, it is hard to deny that EU sanctions on Russia are facing headwinds

’Good news’ EU downplays €2.8 trillion cost of non-Europe
By: EBR | Tuesday, June 17, 2025
The ‘eurocrats’ at the top of the EU’s executive Commission are fond of good news, and spread it whenever they can

UK agrees post-Brexit deal over Gibraltar
By: EBR | Friday, June 13, 2025
The UK has agreed a deal with the European Union over Gibraltar’s status after Brexit

Britain after Brexit: Not Sovereign, but on the fence forever
By: EBR | Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Brexit is still hurting Britain, but it is now on life support as ever more Britons realize their voting mistake

The EU-India strategic dialogue: Big promises, bigger questions
By: EBR | Wednesday, June 11, 2025
As Brussels and New Delhi race to deepen ties in trade, tech, and defence, can high ambition overcome the challenges ahead?

Germany’s long-awaited pivot to leading Europe
By: EBR | Friday, June 6, 2025
Chancellor German Friedrich Merz is wasting no time in reshaping Berlin’s role in Europe and farther afield. To achieve his foreign policy objectives, the chancellor must have a strategic outlook and demonstrate conviction

Razor-Thin and deeply divided: The Polish election shock
By: EBR | Tuesday, June 3, 2025
The election of populist Karol Nawrocki as Poland’s president poses challenges to the country’s reform agenda and deeper EU integration. Yet, the narrow result underscores that Poland still has a strong, resilient pro-European democratic core.

Sobering News from Poland: Advantage PiS and Nawrocki
By: EBR | Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Poland’s new President, a strident nationalist, is politically close to Trump and Farage — and a potential misfortune for the EU‘s political center.

The U.S. State Department’s artful misreading of contemporary Europe
By: EBR | Monday, June 2, 2025
Does Europe really need a crusade from American shores to save it? On the dangers of using the history of Western intellectual thought to conflate questions of legal governance with political persecution.

The irresistible plan Europeans can offer Trump to save NATO
By: EBR | Wednesday, May 28, 2025
At the next NATO summit, Europeans have an opportunity to set new conditions for decades to come. They can strengthen the alliance by committing to a timeline that allows for a U.S. drawdown while preserving American strategic enablers

Germany goes loopy
By: EBR | Monday, May 26, 2025
Let me first dispel the myth that all Germans speak English. It is quite simply not true.

The ancient mariners of Brexit are losing the plot
By: EBR | Wednesday, May 21, 2025
So the white smoke emerged from Whitehall as the Prime Minister didn’t quite say “Habemas a Deal”. at the end of the much hyped UK-EU reset talks

Why Europeans should impose a ceasefire in Ukraine
By: EBR | Tuesday, May 13, 2025
The meeting of EU leaders in Ukraine underscored their reliance on the United States for game-changing actions to end Russia’s war. But Europeans can influence military efforts on the ground, including interdicting Russian attacks over Kyiv

EU enlargement in the age of geopolitics
By: EBR | Thursday, May 8, 2025
EU enlargement remains the union’s most potent tool to strengthen unity and stability in Europe. But to succeed in this era of geopolitical standoffs between great powers, enlargement requires greater EU engagement and an innovative, differentiated approach