
Suspend Hungary’s Voting Rights to Save the EU’s Credibility
Hungary’s attempts to paralyze EU foreign policy through vetoes and blackmail continue. By failing to make Budapest pay, Brussels is normalizing such behavior and inviting further disruption

Friedrich Merz accelerates Germany’s elections
By: EBR | Tuesday, February 11, 2025
The temperature rose to boiling point in the run-up to to Germany’s Bundestag elections on February 23 after a 28-year-old Afghan attacked a kindergarten class in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, with a knife

Developing the EU’s Renewed Social Contract is a necessity
By: EBR | Monday, February 10, 2025
The social component of the European market economy paradigm – the so-called ‘European social model’ – needs to be strengthened.

EU-US relations in the age of Trump II: can Europe develop an effective strategy?
By: EBR | Monday, February 10, 2025
The time for jokes is over. We have seen enough of the Trump II administration during the past three weeks to know that the US President is not bluffing

Desire for raw materials makes EU complicit in war
By: EBR | Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Owning raw materials is one of the key priorities of the new European Commission

EU leaders vow to fight back if Trump imposes tariffs
By: EBR | Tuesday, February 4, 2025
EU leaders have vowed unity against Trump’s tariffs as they gather in Brussels to discusses defence and security issues
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Why the EU must change course on Serbia
By: EBR | Tuesday, February 4, 2025
By refusing to apply pressure on President Vučić, the EU is emboldening the Serbian government. If Brussels is serious about supporting democracy in the Western Balkans, it must empower the Serbian people—not their authoritarian rulers

Austria and Germany: How Firewalls Fall
By: EBR | Thursday, January 30, 2025
The far right in Europe is about to take two decisive steps forward

The highly political French fight against drug trafficking
By: EBR | Thursday, January 30, 2025
France is facing unprecedented levels of drug-related violence and trafficking

What’s behind Europe’s car industry crisis
By: EBR | Thursday, January 30, 2025
As Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has invited key industry players for a “strategic dialogue” on the future of the automotive sector, Euractiv takes a look at what is behind the current slump

Britain faces its demons
By: EBR | Tuesday, January 28, 2025
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure to respond to nightmarish crimes against children that horrified his country and exposed state failures

Denmark boost defence budget for Arctic and North Atlantic
By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, January 28, 2025
President Donald Trump’s advocating to bring Greenland under his control has effect

Norway balks at EU’s energy integration drive
By: EBR | Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Norwegian politicians are resisting attempts to implement critical EU energy laws, which would integrate the country more tightly into European power markets

To combat ageing, Europe must revolutionise its democracies
By: EBR | Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Europeans watch the chaotic state of America’s politics with growing disbelief, but our own democracies are scarcely more healthy

Commission to get serious on clean industrial policy
By: EBR | Monday, January 27, 2025
A lack of Brussels-level powers has made EU clean industrial policies disjointed and less effective in practice

Bulgaria shies away from asking for final clearance to join eurozone
By: EBR | Friday, January 24, 2025
Bulgaria, which is on the verge of joining the eurozone, decided not to seek final approval from the European Central Bank

Elon Musk: A Chinese Puppet?
By: EBR | Friday, January 24, 2025
Pleasing the Chinese leadership is key to Musk’s business fortunes

Rome: City of the Sinless?
By: EBR | Friday, January 24, 2025
“Veni Romam, ut remittantur peccata tua!” (Come to Rome, and have all your sins forgiven!)

A visit to Poland’s last line of defence
By: EBR | Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Poland’s fortified buffer zone against Belarus and Russia could see a surge in migrants in the coming months, officials here warn

Von der Leyen takes aim at China and signals to Trump in cautious Davos speech
By: EBR | Wednesday, January 22, 2025
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday criticised Chinese trade distortions, while reminding Americans of their interdependence with Europe