Ecology
The Summer Nobody Tells Us About: High Mortality Rates, Promises, and Reality in Contemporary Italy
In a Carnegie Europe report entitled A Grand Strategy for Europe’s Clean Industrial Future, analysts Milo McBride and Pauline Gerard advocate creating a comprehensive clean industrial strategy in Europe.
Europe Keeps Devising Strategies Irrelevant to Its Real Capability
In an article entitled Gas-lit: The Three Seas Initiative is out of step with a clean-energy future, Szymon Kardaś, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, criticizes the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) that is still staking on gas infrastructure even after the dependence on Russian gas was reduced considerably.
Central and East European Countries Keep Clinging to the Gas Model Even Though Its Constraints Are Already Visible
In their article entitled The new climate battle, experts of the European Council on Foreign Relations discuss how the socio-political changes in Europe and its economic problems are debunking the European climate agenda.
Political Sentiments Changing Fast, Climate Agenda Losing Support
This is the conclusion made by Thijs van Aken, leading author of the report by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies entitled Intersecting Futures: Global Trends Shaping and Shaped by Climate Change over the Next Century.
Climate Change Will Shape Not Only Its Environmental Consequences But Also the Balance of Power in the 21st Century
In the article Réindustrialiser : un défi, des solutions… et un choix de société, Olivier Lluansi, a mining engineer and CNAM professor, expressly states harsh and disappointing truth: in spite of all the highlight declarations by President Macron about “re-industrialization” being the “mother of all battles” and the ambitious France 2030 program with the budget of 50 billion euro, the share of industry in France continues its steady decline and in 2025 accounts for less than 10% of their GDP.
Re-industrialization of France: sounding promises, multi-billion euro programs and a miserable failure
In the article BNR: Kan Europa ooit nog energie-onafhankelijk worden?, published at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies web-site, Lucia van Geuns, a prominent energy expert who worked for Royal Dutch Shell, TNO and Clingendael International Energy for many years, gives a totally honest and discouraging answer.
Can Europe ever become energy independent? A dangerous illusion and harsh reality of dependency
European plans for the deep integration of their energy systems once again clash with the harsh reality of internal disagreements and political paralysis.
Europe’s Energy Integration: the Trilemma Remains Unsolved Due to National Selfishness
European cities remain on the frontline of the climate crisis but their efforts to improve resilience are still no match to the scale of real threats. Urban Climate Resilience in Europe, a joint monograph by CIDOB и Eurocities, shows that real adaptation of European cities faces deep systemic barriers in spite of multiple strategies, plans, and ambitious declarations.
European Urban Climate Resilience: Ambitious Plans are Hindered by the Lack of Funds and Coordination
A brief prepared by Caspar Hobhouse, a research analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), and entitled Contestation, crisis and choice: The EU’s opportunity on energy was published by the EUISS on 1 April 2026.
A Controlled Compression Manifesto
In his analytical brief entitled Dilemme européen face à la Chine: la visite de Friedrich Merz, un cas d’école, François Godement, an expert on Asia and the USA, examines the results of the German Chancellor’s February trip to China.
A European Dead End Symptom
In his report entitled The Electric Endgame, Alberto Rizzi from the ECFR draws a gloomy picture of Europe in 2040, with abandoned climate leadership, protracted industrial stagnation, lost export markets and a profound dependence on Chinese imports. Should the EU ease its climate agenda now in favor of short-term competitiveness, its geoeconomic advantage will finally pass to China.
Limits of Regulation in the Struggle for Industrial Leadership
A report entitled Holding the line on the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (by Kimberly Clausing, Ignacio García Bercero, Marilyn Pereboom, and Catherine Wolfram), published on 24 February 2026, deals with the first serious crisis in the history of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
A Regulatory Dead End: Industry Versus Farmers