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NATO’s Budget Rebel: Spain

At the June 2025 NATO summit in The Hague, the former (and in that position very frugal) Dutch Prime Minister, currently NATO Secretary General...
Arrigo Mazzi
2 min read

One of the EU’s biggest success stories or, the…

40 years of Schengen When this April the EU celebrated the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Schengen Agreement on free movement, there...
Christopher Tapp
3 min read

The issue of responsibility in the lack of results…

Despite Turkish officials said that talks in Istanbul between Ukraine and Russia were ’more positive than expected,’ both suffering Ukrainians and pro-peace European citizens...
Christopher Tapp
7 min read

Europe Looks to the West. China Redraws its Playbook

While Europe has been glued to its own crises — navigating a war on the continent’s doorstep, safeguarding the Transatlantic alliance, and dodging political...
Christopher Tapp
3 min read

Madam Transparency and Her Invisible Texts

In Brussels, irony is practically a member state. Yet, Ursula von der Leyen has achieved something of a miracle: making the European Commission more...
Arrigo Mazzi
2 min read

Meloni’s Solo Act in Europe’s Trade Drama

If you’ve been wondering where European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been while President Trump unleashed a tariff tantrum threatening to kneecap...
Arrigo Mazzi
3 min read

China’s Financial Fortress

You can answer in two ways to Washington’s rather stormy and unpredictable ‘Trumponomics’. (Well, technically, you can answer with loads of subtle variations, but...
Christopher Tapp
2 min read

Trump’s cat-and-mouse game with the EU

As US President Donald Trump’s newly imposed tariffs caused a market chaos which reached every corner of global finance and economy, he seemed unaffected...
Ana Richter
4 min read

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