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The AfD's victory in Saxony-Anhalt underscores a resurgence of national sovereignty in Europe, challenging established parties and the EU's centralization agenda.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani addressed a long-standing issue for cyclists by repairing a dangerous ramp on the Williamsburg Bridge, exemplifying 'pothole populism' in politics.
The German Greens have achieved major goals like denuclearisation and disarmament, yet their shift toward militarism reflects the harsh realities of a changing world.
Christopher Nolan's reimagined Odysseus reflects contemporary European leadership struggles, highlighting political paralysis amid migration crises and a clash of cultural…
The European Commission plans to embargo Russian LNG by 2027, but limited alternative sources and stringent regulations may challenge Europe's energy security and supply stability.
Germany's export machine is threatened by declining Chinese demand and competition, forcing it to seek EU intervention amid growing trade tensions and market shifts.
The EU faces tough budget negotiations as Germany pushes for cuts amid impending debt repayments.
Éric Trappier, CEO of Dassault Aviation, faces criticism over the FCAS project collapse, highlighting the challenges of European defense cooperation and the strategic advantages…
The SPD, Germany's oldest political party, struggles to retain its working-class base and confronts challenges from rising protectionism and rival parties, leaving its future…
After a meeting of European leaders on Sunday, a spokesman for German Chancellor Merz voiced Europe’s readiness to take “the leading role in negotiations to end Russia’s…
The EU Commission’s proposal to triple data centre capacity over the next five to seven years is intended to help Europe catch up with China and America in the race to unlock…
Jean Monnet famously opined that the European project advances by crises.
If one factor links the dire unpopularity of Chancellor Merz and President Macron, it is their political insularity.
Is the European Union ready for neo-mercantilism? China certainly doesn’t think so.
Another round of couples counseling last week failed to resolve the grinding Franco-Teuton dispute over the beleaguered Future Combat Air System (FCAS).
Last month, EU leaders met to consider the impact of high energy prices on Europe’s industrial competitiveness.
What is it about a campaign to remove the Islamic Republic’s chokehold on Europe’s energy supplies that appals Europe?
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier may not be interested in the war with Iran, but that war is certainly interested in Germany.
Twenty-five years ago, Europe stood poised to administer a world where all nations sought peace and prosperity.
Germany’s ruling coalition may be an awkward marriage of ideological rivals, but it does benefit from the absence of the Greens, who pushed many of the economically injurious…
This week’s acrimonious breakup of the latest ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine has for the moment forestalled Europe’s quaking nightmare: That the US may broker…
The horror with which foreign ministries across Europe greeted President Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland shows us how far European diplomats are from understanding,…
Those of us who grew up in the American South are familiar with the Lost Cause, a profound nostalgia for the defeated Confederacy among our elders, many of whom (like my own…
In the wake of the Trump tariffs, European leaders have loudly proclaimed the merits of free trade, often pointing to the stupendous increase in general prosperity that came…
The raid on Caracas that landed Nicolas Maduro and his wife in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre has surely focused minds in the Kremlin.
The Brussels Effect is the hopeful notion that the EU would become the “regulatory superpower” by creating new governance structures for the world, which would be induced…
Hallelujah, we have an agreement to keep Ukraine solvent!
The recently completed COP-30 in Brazil begat no roadmap for a fossil fuel phaseout, disappointing an EU delegation that had hoped to rope the rest of the world into an approximation…
The European Union came to COP 30 in Belem confident that it could supplant the absent Americans and lead the world with the example of its own plans to achieve Net Zero by…
One of the fundamental obligations of public service in a liberal democracy is the requirement to set aside one’s personal opinions and fulfil the programmes of elected…
