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Danuta Hubner, a former Polish MEP and European Commissioner

Senior political figures call for speeding up of EU/UK re-set

A former European Union commissioner has called for a re-set of EU/UK relations to be stepped up. Danuta Hubner, also a former Polish MEP, said Brexit “is not working.”

The proposition for the coming decade is more ambitious and more defensible. Build in Romania because it lets you manufacture inside the European Union and sell into the Single Market without tariff risk. Build here because it connects Central Europe to the Black Sea. Build here because Europe’s industrial and defence renewal is being written on its eastern flank. And build here because, sooner or later, Ukraine’s reconstruction will become one of the largest economic projects on the continent, and Romania is next door.

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In previous rounds of EU enlargement, issues related to voting procedures were resolved before new members were brought in. Leading up to the 2004 enlargement, discussions centered on Poland’s role as the largest of the incoming countries. When Poland joined, it was allotted twenty-seven votes in the council, roughly equivalent to Spain’s weight, despite the latter’s population being about 60 percent larger.

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By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Thursday, September 24, 2026

Before the next wave of EU enlargement takes place, the union needs to grapple with thorny questions of how power is distributed among its members.

In a recent interview, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan renewed objections centered on what Ankara describes as the “militarization” of eastern Aegean islands and on the resumption of surveys for the Greece-Cyprus electricity interconnection project.

Clouds gather over the Aegean

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Beyond the exchange of statements, signs point to further strain in Greek-Turkish relations.

Mr Merz is facing pressure to resign over his failure to reform Germany’s ailing economy and hold back the rise of AfD.

Merz vows to fight on despite election ‘disaster’

By: The Telegraph | Tuesday, September 22, 2026

German leader’s party on course for worst ever result, with AfD having surged in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and hard-Left forecast to win Berlin

The EU needs to bring its migration and democracy policies in line with each other. Increased cooperation with autocratic regimes on border control should always be matched with increased support for democratic actors in civil society and concerted diplomatic pressure for at least some areas of political liberalization.

EU Fails to Learn the Lessons from Ceuta

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Friday, September 11, 2026

The aftermath of the Ceuta crisis shows Europe has drawn the wrong lessons. Rather than doubling down on failed migration policies, the EU needs to address the underlying roots of such episodes.

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Yet whether far-right leaders are friends or foes from one day to the next, far-right ideology is here to stay. Its mainstreaming since Trump’s first term has normalized policies once considered extreme—from climate skepticism to the anti-immigration rhetoric in Europe—echoed by politicians across the political spectrum.

Why MAGA’s Far-Right European Ties Will Endure

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Friday, August 28, 2026

In supporting Europe’s far-right, MAGA and Russia both want the same thing: a weaker EU. Europe must defend itself without abandoning the openness these forces exploit.

The discussions are expected to help define EU positions and expectations should efforts to restart negotiations gain momentum. European diplomatic sources cited a series of recent contacts with Turkey and said Cyprus has become linked to broader EU-Turkey relations.

Diplomacy intensifies over Cyprus

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 22, 2026

United Nations secretary-general envoy Maria Angela Holguin will be in Brussels on Wednesday for meetings seen as important to European Union preparations for a possible revival of Cyprus reunification talks ahead of an expected visit by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Cyprus next week.

Elsewhere, Dr Denis MacShane, a former Europe Minister in the UK under Tony Blair, told this site, “Starmer’s problem is he is not a politician with the years of experience a Blair or a Thatcher had to avoid making first grade mistakes

Starmer’s problem? "He is not a politician"

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Andy Burnham is due to be named leader of the Labour Party on Friday, before he becomes prime minister on Monday.

If adopted, Greece would become the first EU member country to ban social media for children under the age of 15. Although France has also advanced similar legislation, which it’s been hoping to implement in time for the new school year in September. But, last week, the Commission instructed Paris to revise its proposal to ensure it complies with EU law.

Greece signals fast-track social media ban for minors

By: Euractiv | Wednesday, July 15, 2026

National plan would ban under-15s from accessing social media

Having left the 2025 G7 summit a day early in part to avoid Zelensky, Trump appears to have softened his view, and the two leaders had what seems by most accounts to have been a good meeting at the 2026 NATO summit in Ankara.

European Sycophancy Worked on Trump

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Nearly a year and a half after Europeans leaned into sucking up to Trump, the strategy has produced some benefits when it comes to Ukraine.

Marine Le Pen, 57, had been prepared to hand the baton to her protege, Jordan Bardella, if she had been barred from running. But the court watered down last year’s initial verdict, and made clear she was free to join the race.

France’s Marine Le Pen, fighting court conviction and running for presidency

By: BBC News | Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Marine Le Pen has run for the French presidency three times before, but now that she has decided to attempt it a fourth time, she has taken a gamble.

Against the backdrop of numerous challenges, EU citizens want the European Union to step up its game: 68% of Europeans believe that the EU’s role in protecting citizens against global crises and security risks should become more important. Large majorities want EU member states to be more united in the current context and say the EU should promote the respect for international law by all countries (both 90%). In addition, 73% want it to have more means to face global challenges.

Majority think EU is a "place of stability in a troubled world"

By: Martin Banks | Wednesday, July 1, 2026

While economic concerns grow, EU citizens value the peaceful, protective and cooperative nature of the EU.

Some diplomats fear an RN victory in France would represent a far sharper break than a mere matter of narratives.

Can France’s far right copy-paste the Meloni method?

By: Euractiv | Monday, June 29, 2026

Bardella is interested but her strategy might not work outside Italian politics

New defense is thus as much a question of Europe’s technological base and sovereignty as one of a new order of battle for the future of warfare. This is where the new security strategy will be tested.

EU Needs a Strategy for its Turn to New Defense Tech

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Defense tech innovations will be at the heart of Europe’s new security strategy. But so far, Brussels has been making moves without a broader plan, undermining readiness and credibility.

Not everything is broken between Berlin and Paris. Despite heightened tensions, they established a nuclear steering group in March, 2026, to engage in doctrinal dialogue on conventional, missile defense, and French nuclear capabilities—a move which had long been anathema to Germany. The two countries have also been increasingly cooperating in the fields of AI and quantum computing, among other tech areas.

France and Germany Need Their Own Situation Room

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Wednesday, June 17, 2026

The Franco-German relationship is on the rocks again. But unlike previous moments of tension, the epochal changes on the world stage require that both step up investment in their bilateral ties.

These are times to think creatively and promote a narrative that convinces both European populations and outside partners that the EU is profoundly changing. The priority must be to issue a clear political statement about what Europe intends to do at a time when many of its partners have lost confidence in its political agency.

European Security Strategy: In Search of a New Ambition

By: Carnegie - Strategic Europe | Monday, June 15, 2026

The EU is putting together a new security strategy to meet today’s myriad challenges. But for any proposal to be effective, the union needs to grapple with its identity and ambitions.

The CPMR says it will further its analysis of the published documents “and continue to push for coherent, well-funded and place-based European policies that ensure islands and coastal communities can fully contribute to Europe’s sustainable and competitive future.”

CPMR welcomes EU’s ambitious new islands strategy

By: Martin Banks | Thursday, June 11, 2026

The EU’s newly announced islands strategy has been hailed as a “welcome and historic step.”

ASEAN is now the EU’s third-largest trading partner outside Europe, with goods trade reaching €258.8 billion in 2024 and services adding well over €130 billion more. More revealing still is where the long-term capital has gone: EU foreign direct investment stock in ASEAN has climbed to roughly €400 billion—comfortably above the approximately €247 billion invested in China.

EU’s Vietnamese Heart: Why ASEAN Centrality Has Become Brussels’ New Strategic Compass

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More than a year into the second Trump presidency, a quiet truth has hardened into strategy: Europe entered this era of geopolitical turbulence less exposed than almost anyone predicted—not because it stood still, but because it spent the disruption building doors elsewhere.

Mélenchon, who promised to fix the domestic policy “damages” of the liberal president Emmanuel Macron, also had Washington in his crosshairs.

Melenchon takes on the EU

By: Euractiv | Monday, June 8, 2026

He called for a Europe ’free from the destructive principles of liberalism’

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Senior political figures call for speeding up of EU/UK re-set

Senior political figures call for speeding up of EU/UK re-set

A former European Union commissioner has called for a re-set of EU/UK relations to be stepped up. Danuta Hubner, also a former Polish MEP, said Brexit “is not working.”

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