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China Strikes Back
20-08-2026, 08:30

China Strikes Back

Ten Years After Brexit, Britons Are Against It – but the EU and UK Are on Different Paths Now Mark Leonard cites poll figures showing that most Britons would like to rejoin the European Union. But are the EU leaders ready for such a turn of events.
17-08-2026, 07:59
Ten Years After Brexit, Britons Are Against It – but the EU and UK Are on Different Paths Now
The Election to the French Senate Could Strengthen the National Rally Before the Presidential Election This is how experts of the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation assess the opposition’s prospects in France.
16-08-2026, 14:21
The Election to the French Senate Could Strengthen the National Rally Before the Presidential Election
Europe Writes Fine Agreements Again While China Conquers New Markets Shannon K. O’Neil argues that the European Union and the United States use different approaches to the reshaping of the global trade system.
15-08-2026, 12:10
Europe Writes Fine Agreements Again While China Conquers New Markets
EU Reformers Dissatisfied with Europeans Erik Jones suggests stripping Europe of its peoples – with a test-tube homunculus of ‘European identity’ to be grown instead.
14-08-2026, 09:16
EU Reformers Dissatisfied with Europeans
The European Union and Two Chinas In courting Taiwan, the EU risks losing access to the PRC’s bottomless market.
13-08-2026, 11:02
The European Union and Two Chinas
European Union in Search of New Partners It offers friendship even to former colonies. What for?
10-08-2026, 15:23
European Union in Search of New Partners
One Step to Joining the Third World How Britain Lives Outside Economic Security
6-08-2026, 19:10
One Step to Joining the Third World
Finland Switches from Engagement to Deterrence, But Stability Is Still Fragile Tuomas Forsberg examines in detail how drastically Helsinki’s Baltic Sea policy has changed after Finland joined NATO
5-08-2026, 16:07
Finland Switches from Engagement to Deterrence, But Stability Is Still Fragile
China Is Far Greater a Systemic Threat to Germany than the USA or Russia Experts of the French Committee for the Study of Franco-German Relations find this in their report.
28-07-2026, 14:10
China Is Far Greater a Systemic Threat to Germany than the USA or Russia
Political Instability, Government Turnover Lead to Failure of ‘Global Britain’ Idea Sahasranshu Dash makes this conclusion in his article posted on the website of the Foreign Policy in Focus think tank
28-07-2026, 08:17
Political Instability, Government Turnover Lead to Failure of ‘Global Britain’ Idea
Europe Remains Dependent on the USA It No Longer Loves America But Has to Maintain Their Uneasy Relationship.
27-07-2026, 08:09
Europe Remains Dependent on the USA
Europe More Wary of New Members Than Ready to Change In a policy brief for the Clingendael research center Wouter Zweers examines two recent informal documents from European countries on EU enlargement
19-07-2026, 12:37
Europe More Wary of New Members Than Ready to Change
Public Opinion Already Wants to Rejoin EU, with Politicians Still Wary 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.
17-07-2026, 18:26
Public Opinion Already Wants to Rejoin EU, with Politicians Still Wary
Britain Wants to Get Back to Europe But Is No Longer Welcome 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.
15-07-2026, 15:21
Britain Wants to Get Back to Europe But Is No Longer Welcome