Hot air or cheap gas?
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.
Video
23 July 2026
‘Europe is keeping Cuba’s Regime alive’ in interview with John Suarez
Video
20 July 2026
Inside Iran during the War: Who controls the future?
Video
16 July 2026
Why Iran’s overreach may backfire
Video
29 June 2026
Is Armenia becoming the next battleground between Europe and Russia?
Video
24 June 2026
The long term geopolitical trends that will shape the next global crisis
Video
19 June 2026
Has the West backed the wrong opposition in Iran?
From the capitals
24 July 2026
Poland’s main opposition party splits as ex-PM Morawiecki and 30 MPs forced to leave
From the capitals
24 July 2026
Estonian admits running covert electronics network for Russian military
From the capitals
24 July 2026
Paris weighs State-backed loans to keep presidential campaigns funded at home
Society
24 July 2026
Argentine fans demand replay of World Cup final won by Spain
World
24 July 2026
Trump ties Saudi nuclear deal to recognition of Israel
EU bubble
24 July 2026
ECB puts new euro banknote designs to a public vote
Generic modal content placeholder.
OPINION
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.
OPINION
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.
OPINION
The EU faces tough budget negotiations as Germany pushes for cuts amid impending debt repayments.
OPINION
Éric Trappier, CEO of Dassault Aviation, faces criticism over the FCAS project collapse, highlighting the challenges of European defense cooperation and the strategic advantages…
OPINION
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…
OPINION
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…
OPINION
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…
OPINION
Jean Monnet famously opined that the European project advances by crises.
OPINION
If one factor links the dire unpopularity of Chancellor Merz and President Macron, it is their political insularity.
OPINION
Is the European Union ready for neo-mercantilism? China certainly doesn’t think so.
OPINION
Another round of couples counseling last week failed to resolve the grinding Franco-Teuton dispute over the beleaguered Future Combat Air System (FCAS).
OPINION
Last month, EU leaders met to consider the impact of high energy prices on Europe’s industrial competitiveness.
OPINION
What is it about a campaign to remove the Islamic Republic’s chokehold on Europe’s energy supplies that appals Europe?
OPINION
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier may not be interested in the war with Iran, but that war is certainly interested in Germany.
OPINION
Twenty-five years ago, Europe stood poised to administer a world where all nations sought peace and prosperity.
OPINION
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…
OPINION
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…
OPINION
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,…
OPINION
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…
OPINION
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…
OPINION
The raid on Caracas that landed Nicolas Maduro and his wife in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre has surely focused minds in the Kremlin.
OPINION
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…
OPINION
Hallelujah, we have an agreement to keep Ukraine solvent!
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
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…
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
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…
NEWS
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…
ENERGY AND CLIMATE
The recent deviation of Bill Gates from strict green orthodoxy must have come as a shock to Europe's eco-elites.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
The economist Thomas Sowell once observed that there are no policies, only tradeoffs.
EU BUBBLE
Like many leaders facing dire straits domestically, French President Macron hoped his control of foreign policy might allow him to claw back some of his lost prestige.
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
The serial travails of the dying Macron presidency may be dominating the headlines, but the profound dysfunction of Germany’s coalition government holds its own perils for…