Paris has come a long way in its approach to enlarging the European Union. However, French support remains fragile, due in part to a lack of public support.
Companies need to switch from a “just in time” to a “just in case” mindset if they want to flourish in the current geopolitical climate. Supply chain resilience is becoming a core component of corporate strategy.
Institutional innovation will shape the fate of an enlarged European Union. Germany should help construct an EU capable of fulfilling its promise of security and prosperity.
For Kyiv, becoming an EU member is about security guarantees and leaving Moscow’s orbit for good. For Brussels, it’s about the implementation of reforms.
The measures that Western economies are taking in order to respond to China’s chokehold over the supply of critical materials are unlikely to work as intended. There’s a cheaper, quicker, and more effective way.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’ center-right Christian Democrats have had a mixed start to this year’s five federal state elections. But these outcomes are less worrying for the chancellor than the state of his coalition partner, the Social Democrats.
In a world running fiscal and carbon deficits, debt-for-nature swaps can help alleviate the harms associated with the long-term challenges of both sovereign debt and climate change.
With its opposition to taking cheap loans from the EU’s SAFE defense fund, the nationalist-populist Law and Justice (PiS) party has decided to make Poland’s attitude to the EU the country’s key political cleavage. This is unprecedented and dangerous.
Beijing is largely unconcerned by recent US actions. From a European perspective, China may now appear more reliable than the United States. But Chinese policies and strategic objectives have not changed.
An Israel that emerges as a regional power while shedding its liberal-democratic core will be a diminished Israel. The elections later this year will, therefore, determine the country’s future.
There are growing calls for the formation of a coalition of middle powers. History suggests, however, that they lack the ideological glue necessary to sustain a deeper and more powerful global movement.
Despite Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his government’s claims of a brand-new German foreign policy, there has really been more continuity than change. What Berlin needs to achieve is nothing less than a major strategy for protecting Europe’s security.
The British prime minister had a terrible first year in office, and things haven’t improved much since. A bad result for his Labour Party in regional and local elections on May 7 may well cut his political career short.
Germany needs to stop thinking about foreign affairs and security in an isolated way. Fiscal policy, the country’s economic model, and the defense of our democracy have immense foreign policy implications that have been neglected so far.
One year on from US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, a solid majority in Germany no longer trusts the United States. Opinions about what role the country should play in Europe, though, remain in flux.
Declining funds, increasing challenges: German development policy is facing a difficult situation. A reform is intended to remedy this, Reem Alabali Radovan, Germany’s Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, tells IPQ.
The Europeans are increasingly relying on ad hoc formats to address security questions. Those should no longer be seen as temporary fixes but as the place where Europe’s new security architecture is being built.
Amid Russia’s continued aggression and military build-up, Europe needs to ramp up its defense capabilities, and fast. Joint procurement and industry consolidation will be key, European Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius tells IPQ.
The resolve of a strengthened Europe will grow as its capabilities expand. Here’s what needs to happen to take security into European hands—and to actively avert the worst-case scenario.
