Politics
China Is Far Greater a Systemic Threat to Germany than the USA or Russia
Sahasranshu Dash makes this conclusion in his article posted on the website of the Foreign Policy in Focus think tank
Political Instability, Government Turnover Lead to Failure of ‘Global Britain’ Idea
It No Longer Loves America But Has to Maintain Their Uneasy Relationship.
Europe Remains Dependent on the USA
In a policy brief for the Clingendael research center Wouter Zweers examines two recent informal documents from European countries on EU enlargement
Europe More Wary of New Members Than Ready to Change
In a Project Syndicate article entitled Beyond Brexit – and Back to Europe Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, argues that in the ten years after the Brexit referendum, public opinion on both sides of the English Channel has undergone a remarkable shift.
Public Opinion Already Wants to Rejoin EU, with Politicians Still Wary
In an Institut Montaigne article entitled Brexit: l'Europe face à son paradoxe britannique, experts Jeanne Lebaudy and Eve Talkowski examine the situation that has emerged ten years after the referendum that took the UK out of the EU.
Britain Wants to Get Back to Europe But Is No Longer Welcome
Experts of the Atlantic Council ask who is to blame for the UK’s high turnover of prime ministers.
Political Circumstances or a Systemic Crisis?
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
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 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
Sooner or later, the Europeans will reestablish their ties with Russia and have to rebuild the continental security system. Thierry de Montbrial, executive chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), predicts this in his article for the Politique étrangère journal.
A New Path For Europe
The world comes to be ruled by a logic of domination, where the strong impose their dependence on the weak, and no one takes Europe seriously. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, a French diplomat, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations and professor at Columbia University, makes this conclusion in his article for the Politique étrangère journal.
Reflections On a Darkening World
