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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
On April 7, 2026, the Centre for European Reform published at its web-site an article dedicated to the 1 year anniversary of the EU goods duties imposed by Donald Trump.
One year liberation day: The delusion of transatlantic economic divorce
Hungary may become the first member State of a new European union: a Europe of free States is coming to replace the Europe of supranational institutions.
New Eastern Empire to Wreck EU: What Péter Magyar Starts with as Head of Hungary
On March 30, Atlantische Commissie published at its web-site an article Hoe bouwen we een Nederlandse oorlogseconomie? The article analyzes the problems of building a war economy in the Netherlands.
How Can the Netherlands Build a War Economy?
