
Europe’s Playbook for Climate Engagement with the United States
Europe should leverage the U.S. climate policy shift and safeguard its green transition goals by building cooperation on geothermal energy among other things and focusing on technologies that enhance security and decarbonization

’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
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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

Metsola to Commission: Change legal basis for €150bn defence fund or face EU court
By: EBR | Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Metsola has considered legal action against the Commission for invoking an emergency clause to bypass Parliament oversight.

When disillusion meets interference in Romania
By: EBR | Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Far-right candidate George Simion’s lead in Romania’s presidential election reflects public discontent with political elites. To safeguard democracy in Europe, political parties must better represent their voters and engage with them in a fair information environment.

France and Germany are staring into the Abyss
By: EBR | Tuesday, April 29, 2025
France and Germany have a special responsibility to shepherd Europe through the epochal geopolitical crisis at hand. To assert Europe’s geopolitical power, Paris and Berlin must revamp their foreign and defense strategies as well as their economic fundamentals, and cooperate with Nordic, Baltic, and Polish allies

Why the Kashmir crisis between India and Pakistan should alarm the EU
By: EBR | Monday, April 28, 2025
As tensions escalate with border skirmishes between the two nuclear-armed states, Europe could face mounting risks

Three ways Europe should fill Trump’s geopolitical vacuum
By: EBR | Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Geopolitics, like nature, abhors a vacuum so the EU must prepare to fill the spaces the US is vacating

What Le Pen’s sentence means for the rule of law in Europe
By: EBR | Friday, April 11, 2025
Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzlement and ban from elected office have sparked accusations from far-right and populist movements of antidemocratic behavior. But the ruling shows that attachment to the rule of law is resilient, and upholding it is the only way to counter claims that the system is rigged