Europeans should defend their rules on trade, investment and infrastructure—and, in so doing, change the logic that ...

Friedrich Merz wants to be a foreign-policy chancellor. One might not have known it from Germany’s parochial federal election campaign, or the business-as-usual foreign-policy passages of the ...

Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, pro-European candidates may find unexpected opportunities among voters of both the ...

A lot is riding on Poland’s presidential election. The country is still reeling from eight years of rule by the Law and Justice (PiS) party—a period marked by democratic backsliding and strained ties ...

Factional struggles around the US president have left Europe at the mercy of competing foreign policy agendas. But European disunity only undermines European in ...

As global power becomes more dispersed, the relationship between Europe (and the West) and China is increasingly shaped not ...

Amid growing uncertainty, Europeans face a fundamental challenge: how to keep themselves safe with potentially less America ...

Israel’s expanding ground-offensive threatens to push Palestinians out of Gaza and into neighbouring Egypt. This would worsen an already dire humanitarian situation and risks destabilising Egypt, an ...

Berlin; late August: when politics normally stirs into life after the holiday lull. But this year, the lull never came. For decades, Germany was Europe’s byword for political stability and ...

When America’s then-president Donald Trump visited Poland in 2017, he enjoyed a warm reception. Warsaw’s residents remained true to their country’s historical allyship with the United States, lining ...

Secure, sovereign, competitive – that is the ambition for a Europe able to withstand the geopolitical and economic turmoil of the current moment. A Europe that ...