The geopolitical EU
The EU's neighbourhood is increasingly hostile and unstable, great power competition between China and the US is drawing in Europe, and climate change poses ever-growing economic, social and geopolitical challenges. The US's precipitate withdrawal from Afghanistan showed that even under Joe Biden the US may act in its own interests first, with minimal consultation with its allies. In such an environment, the EU needs to reconsider how it acts on the global stage in order to protect its prosperity and security. It needs to develop the tools to face these challenges effectively, boosting its diplomacy, its defence capabilities, and its instruments for tackling internal security issues.
Germany should not run the ECB
The big European sort? The diverging fortunes of Europe's regions
Catch me if you can: The European Arrest Warrant and the end of mutual trust
Appalled by strategic autonomy? Applaud it instead
Tearing at Europe's core: Why France and Italy are at loggerheads
How to combat Europe's economic slowdown
Putin's last term: Taking the long view
Vladimir Putin has dominated the Russian political scene since 1999. But he is now in what should be his final term as president. He faces economic, social and foreign policy problems; and he has to decide what will happen at the end of his term of office.The performance of...