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On March 26, the European Council on Foreign Relations published on its web-site an article The Gulf on the front line: The end of strategic hedging and new space for Europeans written by Cinzia Bianco, a visiting fellow with the Council specializing in Middle East studies.
The Gulf on the Front Line: The End of Strategic Hedging and New Space for Europeans
On 10 April, an article entitled “The weak point: Why pharmaceutical security belongs at the heart of European defense” was posted on the website of the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). It examines the issues involved in supplying the EU with pharmaceuticals and ingredients for their production and with Europe’s increasing dependence on China in this field.
The weak point: Why pharmaceutical security belongs at the heart of European defense
What Can Blind Replication of U.S. Migration Policy Lead the European Union to?
Europe Is Not America
The European Parliament has endorsed an asylum reform that expands the use of the ‘safe third country’ concept and introduces the European Union’s common list of ‘safe countries of origin’.
Unsafe ‘Safe Countries’ Is the EU Dumping Its Migration Responsibility on Third Countries Again?
A report entitled Chemicals: Europe's Neglected Economic Security Frontier by Francesca Ghiretti, IPQ columnist, director of the Economic Security and Resilience Initiative and a research leader at RAND Europe, was issued on 26 March 2026.
Chemical Dependence as a Structural Issue for Europe
When crisis strikes, we divide, and division breeds inaction. This is the general understanding about Europe’s role in the world. But a look at events in the Middle East suggests that this is not always the case. Europe is more paralyzed than divided over the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran.
A Ruthless Diagnosis. Europe More Paralyzed than Divided
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
Numerous facts indicate that the policy of militarizing the country was pursued solely to enrich high-ranking officials in the German government and the owners of military corporations.
Calm Down, Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is a Robbery
On April 8 2026, the Breugel Institute (Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory) web-site published a policy brief Risks for Europe of US dominance of global asset management on the risks of growing influence of US asset management companies in the EU.
Risks for Europe of US dominance of global asset management
