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The Pact Enters into Force: Uncertainties and Risks of New European Migration Governance
In a Chatham House article entitled Macron’s Nuclear Gamble: Building a European Deterrent Faster Than French Politics Can Tear Down, published in June 2026, experts Amélie Jaques-Apke and Lily Wojtowicz examine in detail the French President Emmanuel Macron’s initiative to create a pan-European nuclear deterrence system.
Macron’s Nuclear Ambitions, A Risky Gamble that Could Cost Europe Dear
In a Financial Times article entitled Why Europe Should Not Choose to Go It Alone, reprinted by The Hudson Institute, senior research fellow Nadia Schadlow states expressly that Europe should not try to go it alone.
Europe Unready For Autonomy – Which Is Increasingly Apparent
More half of the Dutch population are concerned about migration, pessimistic about the future, and unsure that the government can solve the problem. This is attested to by four Public Monitor Social Stability surveys held by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) in 2025 and 2026.
External Migration in the Netherlands, A Source of Threats and Problems
In an article entitled What the failed next generation fighter jet deal means for European defense that appeared in The Conversation on 12 June 2026, David W. Versailles, professor in strategic management, examines in detail why the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program has failed
FCAS Failure, Not One Failed Project But a Systemic Issue in European Defense Cooperation
Even a relatively short-lived energy price spike would tell on prices and lead to a protracted period of monetary tightening. This is what experts of the European Parliament’s Economic Governance and EMU Scrutiny Unit predict as they compare the 2021-2022 and 2026 energy crises amid the current energy price growth caused by the Gulf war.
ECB Monetary Policy Amid Shifts and Breaks. Navigating the 2026 Energy Shock
Experts at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) foretell this scenario in their report entitled Building One Europe, One Market – Four Strategic Priorities for the Digital Single Market.
In Digital Markets, Europe Will Be a Developer of Bureaucratic Rules, Not Technologies.
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 Chatham House think tank’s article entitled The Open Centre: Reimagining Europe’s offer to a fractured world that appeared on 15 June 2026, Grégoire Roos, director of Europe and Russia and Eurasia Programs, suggests that Europe should become an ‘open center’ in a world where the old international order is eroding and the USA and China are waging a bitter geopolitical struggle
Europe Trying to Pass Off Its Weakness as a New Historic Mission
In a publication by Chatham House entitled The FCAS fighter jet looks like it’s dead. Could that be a good thing?
Rather than a Chance for Reset, the FCAS Project’s Demise Is Another Proof of Europe’s Helplessness in the Defense Area
The EU Inc. all-European incorporation regime will offer no advantages to innovative businesses. Experts from the Bruegel think tank (Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory) make this conclusion in their report entitled How to secure the benefits of an EU-wide incorporation regime.
How To Secure The Benefits Of an EU-wide Incorporation Regime
In a May 2026 report by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) entitled Transatlantic pressure points: How Europe can strengthen its negotiating power with the US, senior research fellows Tobias Lindner, Valbona Zeneli and Rachel Tausendfreund attempt to advise Europe on how to deal with the new Trump administration.
Transatlantic Alliance Is Formally In Place But Has Accrued a Layer of Outstanding Tensions
In a May 2026 policy brief for the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) entitled Electric Collective: Europe’s Clean Energy Future Without Russia, senior policy fellow Szymon Kardaś tries to portray the situation as a success for European energy diplomacy
Europe Has Paid a Huge Price for Rupture with Russia – In Fact Only To Swap One Master for Another