The escalation in the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz underscores a defining feature of today’s global order: volatility, fragmentation, and great power competition. Europe is entering a world of hard leverage—where fossil fuel dependence translates into strategic vulnerability. At the same time, as confidence in the United States becomes fragile,…
The geoeconomic power of the future will be shaped by climate policy. Countries that play the right moves in regulation, clean-tech production and climate finance today will win in the electrified world of tomorrow
Generali and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) organised a Geopolitical Briefing with Jim O’Brien, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at ECFR and former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in the Biden administration. This session provided a valuable opportunity to gain insights into the current geopolitical landscape and its implications for economies and financial markets. The…
The EU must take concrete steps to support African ambitions to move exporting or processing raw materials and become a maker of clean technologies
China’s manufacturing surge and trade tactics are dampening Europe’s clean-tech goals. Europeans need to forge coalitions across wary member states to secure their energy independence
Since the return of U.S. President Donald Trump to the White House in January, European policymakers have been struggling to sketch a sensible response to Trumponomics – an unpredictable, fast-changing and often baffling mix of U.S. trade, investment and finance policies that have a direct impact on Europe’s interests. In her latest ECFR policy brief,…
The case of Nexperia is another reminder Europeans need to speed up the assembly of their own trade and tech tools
Beijing is turning its rare earth monopoly into a weapon. The EU needs to treat this as the emergency that it is and unleash its anti-coercion shield to bring China to the negotiating table
The US president is throwing the EU lots of economic curveballs. Brussels should not be distracted by these; instead, it should double down on adopting measures that will benefit the bloc long after Donald Trump leaves the White House
Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump have announced a 15% tariff on most EU goods exported to the US. The compromise has avoided a trade war for now—but Europeans need to safeguard the deal’s positive aspects in future trade negotiations