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After Novi Sad: How the EU can help Serbia resurrect its democratic path

  • Piotr Buras, Vessela Tcherneva
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Green competitiveness: Why Europe should rethink targets to outpace China

  • Byford Tsang, Rosa Melissa Gehrung

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Power sharing: The politics of European-Tunisian energy cooperation

  • Philipp Wagner
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The ethos of the EU’s “Pact for the Mediterranean” could help revitalise cooperation on clean energy with Tunisia—but only if Europeans learn how to better factor in the country’s politics

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Sudan: A war Europe cannot stop, but cannot ignore

  • Cinzia Bianco, Will Brown
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El-Fasher in North Darfur is now the epicentre of the world’s greatest humanitarian catastrophe. Europe’s options are limited, but there are still ways to hold the responsible accountable

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Dutch masters: The art of renewing the centre

  • Herman Quarles van Ufford
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After the Dutch election on October 29th, pro-European centrist parties are best placed to form the next government—and their youthful leader could help move the country back to the heart of the EU

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The bear and the bot farm: Countering Russian hybrid warfare in Africa

  • Will Brown
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Russia has many quiet enemies in Africa. Working together, like-minded Africans and Europeans can roll back its troublesome influence

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Strategic minerals, strategic futures: Africa at the heart of shifting global security

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Behind the European far-right’s success is an identity politics that gives voters a sense of belonging. Europe’s liberal forces need to offer a credible alternative

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When Czech populists win, that’s nothing peculiarly “east European”. It’s the new normal of the Western world

  • Timothy Garton Ash
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The likely new government in Prague will add one more state opposed to the EU’s green deal, and migration and asylum pact

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Patrycja Sasnal on the Gaza peace deal

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Serbia protests march

After Novi Sad: How the EU can help Serbia resurrect its democratic path

  • Piotr Buras, Vessela Tcherneva
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Serbia’s young people are making their dissatisfaction with Aleksandar Vucic’s corrupt government known. The EU should consider freezing Serbia’s accession negotiations and support the country’s return to democratic fundamentals

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Green competitiveness: Why Europe should rethink targets to outpace China

  • Byford Tsang, Rosa Melissa Gehrung
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  • 4 minute read

European carmakers are falling behind Chinese makers of electric vehicles. Yet watered-down climate targets will not help European cars compete with China; a different approach is needed

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Look what you made us do: How to realise a European-led NATO

  • Leoni Habedank, Rafael Loss, Katrine Westgaard
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America’s gradual retreat from European security under the current Trump administration is reshaping NATO’s centre of gravity. To keep the alliance credible and united, Europeans not only need to spend more—they need to learn to lead

Germany: protesters rally in berlin against authoritarianism

Europe’s democratic strain is a crisis of governance, not borders

  • Mireia Faro Sarrats
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Western politicians are increasingly framing migration as a threat to national security and social cohesion. In doing so, they risk undermining the democratic norms they claim to defend

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Europe’s new Defence Readiness Roadmap: The European Commission bids for the driving seat

  • Nick Witney
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After years of slow progress by member states, only the European Commission appears to have a plan to invest in Europe’s defence

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The mirage of resilience: Why energy markets cannot shake off the Middle East risk

  • Camille Lons
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Oil prices barely flinched after the Iran-Israel 12-day war in June, but it would be a mistake to conclude Gulf producers have lost their leverage

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The Guardian 3 November 2025

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Rai Radio 3 3 November 2025

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Rai Radio 1 3 November 2025

Teresa Coratella on hybrid warfare techniques

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Rai News 3 November 2025

Kelly Petillo on the Gaza ceasefire and prospects for the region

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de Volksrant 3 November 2025

Will Brown on Sudan peace prospects

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BNT 3 November 2025

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From ore to more: Mineral partnerships for African industrialisation

  • Sarah Logan, Theophilus Acheampong
  • Policy Brief

After decades of extractive mining, the industrialisation of resource-rich African countries has fallen short of expectations. To change this—and give Europe a secure, diversified source of minerals—European and African countries should work together to keep more stages of mineral processing and manufacturing in Africa


From street to state: Madagascar’s new leader and the case for EU engagement

  • Daria Jankiel
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  • 5 minute read

The Gulf rush: How Europe can keep up in Africa

  • Maddalena Procopio, Corrado Čok
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European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen listen to Chinese President Xi Jinping at the EU–China Summit in Beijing, 24 July 2025.

Great changes unseen: The China-Russia nexus and European security

  • Alicja Bachulska, Ivana Karásková
  • Policy Brief

Europeans must recalibrate their China policy—to recognise the country’s role effectively supporting Russia in its war on Ukraine


Know thy field: China’s new consumerist ethos

  • Sonia Li
  • Commentary
  • 4 minute read

Not so fast: What China’s new climate target means for Europe and the planet

  • Byford Tsang
  • Policy Alert
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More on European Power

A general view of Europe's first greenfield steel mill in 50 years, under construction by Stegra, outside Boden, in northern Sweden, December 5, 2024.

It’s not easy being green: Breaking Europe’s climate spending deadlock

  • Mats Engström
  • Policy Brief

The EU’s next budget will shape its future. Member states must strike a grand bargain to decarbonise Europe and, by extension, drive EU security and competitiveness


When the chips are down: Nexperia, Europe and the US-China trade and tech war

  • Herman Quarles van Ufford
  • Policy Alert
  • 2 minute read

Escalate to negotiate: How Europe should respond to Chinese export restrictions

  • Tobias Gehrke, Janka Oertel
  • Commentary
  • 6 minute read

More on European Security

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and President of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia Badra Gunba attend a meeting in the Grand Palace at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia May 10, 2025.

Occupational therapy: Frozen conflicts, Russian aggression and EU enlargement

  • Tefta Kelmendi, Sergi Kapanadze
  • Policy Brief

As Russia accelerates its annexation of “frozen conflict” regions, the EU must enhance its policy to counter Moscow’s influence


When Czech populists win, that’s nothing peculiarly “east European”. It’s the new normal of the Western world

  • Timothy Garton Ash
  • Commentary
  • View from the Council
  • 4 minute read

Czechs and balances: Protecting Ukraine aid from the new government in Prague

  • Lesia Ogryzko, Karel Solař
  • Commentary
  • 4 minute read

More on Middle East and North Africa

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The power of the possible: A step-by-step approach to strengthen human rights in the Middle East

  • Anthony Dworkin
  • Policy Brief

European credibility to uphold human rights in the Middle East has faded, but the EU can still have an impact by backing social and economic rights, empowering people through reform


Staatsräson: How Germany’s Israel policy hobbles EU strategy

  • Nele Anders
  • Commentary
  • 5 minute read

Diplomacy next: The internal politics of Hamas and the power of European engagement

  • Muhammad Shehada
  • Commentary
  • 7 minute read

More on United States

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington.

MAGA goes global: Trump’s plan for Europe

  • Célia Belin
  • Policy Brief

Form exists in the frenzy of Donald Trump’s first months back in power. His foreign policy is his domestic agenda exported—and that is bad news for Europe


The imported martyr: Echoes of Charlie Kirk in Europe

  • Pawel Zerka
  • Commentary
  • 4 minute read

J.D. Vance’s foreign policy: When restraint meets culture war

  • Majda Ruge
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