EU strategic culture

All-out support: The West’s commitments to Ukraine

  • Denys Davydenko, Margaryta Khvostova, Dmytro Kryvosheiev, Olga Lymar
  • Commentary

Ukraine’s Western partners now recognise that it can defeat Russia. Yet they need to provide the guarantees of long-term support that will make this a reality

Europe’s soft-power problem

  • Mark Leonard
  • Commentary

Although Europe has begun to make up for years of neglect in terms of defence spending, it remains woefully ill-equipped to win over other countries through the power of attraction and persuasion. Each side in the European culture war is uniquely unappealing to billions of people around the world

Law or less: Why Orban’s rule threatens the European project

  • Andreas Bock
  • Commentary

The goal of preserving European unity could hinder the EU’s fight against democratic backsliding in Hungary. To remain a community of values, the union needs to keep up the pressure on the country’s leader

Life punishes those who come too late

  • Piotr Buras
  • Commentary

The EU should immediately impose a temporary embargo on Russian energy imports. If the union waits any longer, it will be too late – and the political costs will be huge

The coronavirus world order

  • Podcast
  • Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes

How can we explain the current crisis of the liberal international order?