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New START Expiry: Implications for Europe
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In practice, European countries responded to Russia’s war against Ukraine very differently. Reality has shown that the states in the north and east were much more determined regarding this matter than those in the south of Europe.
European Unity in the Interests of Security. Split along the North-South Line
A report entitled From Rupture to Relevance: Investing in Europe’s Southern Partnerships was published on the website of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael) on 3 February 2026. Its authors are Megan Price, head of the Conflict Research Unit, and Máté Szalai, a research fellow at the same unit.
From Rupture to Relevance: Investing in Europe’s Southern Partnerships
A review made by Sophie Williams-Dunning for the RUSI and published in February 2026 deals with how dependence on Western technological platforms undermines Britain’s ability to counter foreign interference.
Tech Dependencies Undermine UK National Security Soft Power Without Leverage
On 20 January 2026, the U.S. Brookings Institute publishes an article entitled “Can an alliance divided against itself compete with China?” by Jonathan A. Czin, Fellow at the Institute’s Chair in Foreign Policy Studies. The article is published under the Institute’s Reimagining Europe’s Security project.
Can an alliance divided against itself compete with China?
In January 2026, the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) published a report entitled Placing the EU on a Warfare Footing. Its authors, Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Diana-Paula Gherasim and Thibaut Michel, discuss how the European Union’s energy policy should be put on a military footing.
Energy Protectionism Without Energy
The website of the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB) has posted the January issue of its CIDOB Opinion newsletter containing an article “How Europe can reduce dependence on the United States” by Francis Ghilès, the Center’s non-resident Senior Fellow.
How Europe Can Reduce Dependence on the United States
There is a so-called circular migration programme (also known as collective migration) that has been used in Spain for many years. Officially it is called Gestión Colectiva de las contrataciones en Origen (Collective Management of Recruitment at Origin) or GECCO. The programme is often presented as an advanced one. The European Commission even took the “Spanish model” as the basis for drawing up the EU’s directive on seasonal workers.
Circular Migration in Spain Strengths and Weaknesses of the Spanish Migration Model
On January 29, the Breugel (Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory) think tank published on their web site a policy brief entitled “Better regulation in the European Union needs a fresh start”, by Anne Bucher and Elizabeth Golberg.
Better Regulation in the European Union Needs a Fresh Start
Experts have over the years produced countless policy briefs, reports and documents in efforts to influence policy-makers’ decisions about EU economic policy and governance. In a special category are the expert reports officially commissioned by EU institutional actors.
How Much Do Experts’ Ideas Matter for the European Union’s Political Agenda?
The European Union Institute for Security Studies has published on its web site the article “Financial dependence on the US: Europe's underestimated weak spot” by Steven Everts describing current transformation of global finances.
Europe's Underestimated Weak Spot: Financial Dependence on the US
In January 2026, the German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, DGAP) published an analytical report entitled Venezuela, Oil, and US Energy Dominance: Implications for German Policy. The document is a geopolitical review of the plans of Trump’s administration, used as a tool for justifying the climate agenda.
Venezuela, Oil, and US Energy Dominance: Implications for German Policy
Central Asia suffers from the lack of water and deglaciation but at the same time it is sitting on the largest reserves of rare earth metals, a vital resource for the “green transition” and the defence industry of the West. Andrew D’Anieri from Atlantic Council suggests mining critical minerals and spending the profit on modernizing irrigation and the precipitation enhancement technology.
Resource Gap: How the US and China Carve Central Asia Up