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According to Costa, “Cyprus’ own history of occupation and division has given it a very concrete understanding of the crucial value of international law for peace and stability among nations.

Cyprus brings a “unique perspective” to its EU presidency

EU Council President Antonio Costa was clear, Cyprus will bring a “unique perspective” to its EU presidency.

Yet the world is not as Trump imagines it, and the threat he now poses—and which Europeans are scrambling to respond to in Brussels and Davos this week—is principally one of chaos. Calling the challenge a new Monroe Doctrine is only partly the answer: It’s more like a Gone-Rogue Doctrine.

Europe Faces the Gone-Rogue Doctrine

The hyper-personalized new version of global sphere-of-influence politics that Donald Trump wants will fail, as it did for Russia. But, whether it fails or not, Europe must still deal with a disruptive former ally determined to break the rules.

The Commission has done everything it can to push through this agreement at all costs. Including artificially splitting it into two parts, an attempt to circumvent the national parliaments and unanimity in the European Council. That can be considered as a far-reaching and democratically very problematic approach.

“The Mercosur agreement is an attack on our agriculture and democracy"

Farmers from all over Europe were demonstrating in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg against the Mercosur agreement. According to many MEPs, the protest was more than justified.

For European leaders and Brussels officials, the instinct is to panic. But they may want to look across the Atlantic to Canada, where Trump’s provocative suggestion that the country could become a 51st state was met not with outrage, but restraint. Ottawa’s response has been deliberate and understated: keep calm and carry on.

Keep Calm and Carry On: Why Europe Shouldn’t Panic Over Trump’s Threats

As Brussels contemplates a trade clash over Greenland, Europe may want to study Mark Carney’s brand of Canadian-style “cold shoulder” diplomacy.

In the 1990s, it was thought that, both domestically and internationally, greater financialization would make individuals and countries grow faster. It was presented as a substitute for economic equality: Everybody who wanted to study or had a good idea could easily borrow and supposedly become rich.

Was the World of the 1990s Better Than Today’s?

Revisiting the illusions of the 1990s and how that era’s ideals led to today’s realities.

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Though some in Brussels argue that Trump’s rhetoric occasionally sounds sympathetic to Putin, his actions consistently undermine Russian and Chinese interests. Ultimately, Trump’s early 2026 agenda reveal a deeper reality: despite the noise, Europe and the US continue to share many of the same strategic objectives.

Analyses

Trump’s Turbulent 2026: Why Europe Fears Him But Still Needs Him

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

From Greenland to Iran, Gaza and Venezuela, Trump’s start to 2026 may terrify Brussels — but behind the headlines, his aims echo Europe’s own strategic priorities.

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Europe’s Eastern flank, with the Black Sea at its core, has become an active war zone and a decisive hinge in the continent’s security order. At the same time, the unpredictability of the United States is forcing Europeans to design its own more credible security architecture.

Analyses

France, Turkey, and a Reset in the Black Sea

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

A renewal of relations between France and Turkey is vital to strengthen European strategic autonomy. To make this détente a reality, Paris and Ankara should move beyond personal friction and jointly engage with questions of Black Sea security.

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As minister of justice from 2015 to 2023, Ziobro was the author of judiciary reforms which provoked a major conflict with Brussels.

Europe

Hungary grants asylum to Polish ex-justice minister

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Hungary has granted political asylum to Poland’s former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro who is facing charges of embezzlement.

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Europe’s global decline leads policy experts to lean increasingly towards extreme solutions. Awareness that already in this century Europe has gone from level-pegging with the US to only two-thirds of its GDP has sparked calls for radical policies. Progressive europhiles thus join populist europhobes in their exasperation with the EU.

Analyses

Unpalatable choices for an EU with shrinking options

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Giles Merritt urges a rigorous re-think of Europe’s strengths and weaknesses to fuel debate on a streamlined EU suited to the new ‘Age of Disruption’.

Despite the fact that Russia is an economic midget and, as proven by the grave daily attacks on the civilian population all over Ukraine, a failed state in any civilized sense, Europe is far weaker at present than it should be.

Europe

Who Really Defends Europe — Ukraine or the U.S.?

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Europeans still hesitate to understand that their defense will no longer be provided by the United States – but by Ukraine. That is true in a far more comprehensive sense than has been considered to date.

It is the NATO alliance that enables the American presence on Greenland, and it is the NATO alliance that the United States threatens when it threatens its ally Denmark. So long as the United States and Denmark are promised to defend one another from attack, Greenland is defended by both of them, and indeed by all of the other NATO allies. If the NATO alliance ceases to exist, then Greenland immediately becomes much less secure -- and, for that matter, so does every other member of the alliance, including the United States. Nothing could strengthen Russia and China more than the end of NATO.

Analyses

The mad Stamp collector

Monday, January 12, 2026

Our foreign policy as fable

The failure by the European Council on December 18, 2025, to make a decision on Russian state assets has been depicted as a setback. Looked at another way, however, European solidarity held up well.

Europe

Solidarity Is a Must for Europe to Ensure its Own Security

Friday, January 9, 2026

Europe is designing a new model of collective security that no longer relies on the United States. For this effort to succeed, solidarity between member states that have different threat perceptions is vital.

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Brazil has spent decades cultivating a diplomatic identity built on dialogue, mediation, and strategic autonomy. It is one of the rare actors able to speak credibly with Washington and Beijing, with Brussels and Moscow, with democracies and non-democracies alike. This is not fence-sitting. It is bridge-building.

World

Why Brazil Has the Soft Power and Gravitas to Lead the Global South

Friday, January 9, 2026

In an increasingly fragmented world, leadership is no longer defined solely by military power, GDP size, or the ability to coerce. It is defined by credibility, cultural resonance, diplomatic legitimacy, and the capacity to convene without intimidating. By these standards, Brazil stands out as one of the few countries with the soft power and gravitas required to credibly lead the Global South.

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The muted European responses reflect the overbearing shadow of Washington’s influence on the continent, triggered by fears that Greenland will be the next stop for Trump’s adventurism or of the dire consequences of U.S. abandonment of Ukraine.

Analyses

The Cost of Europe’s Weak Venezuela Response

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

International rules are only as strong as the democratic states supporting them. In the wake of the U.S. military operation in Venezuela, Europeans have a vested interest in making a compelling case for international law but shy away from doing so.

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The UK is already lining up with Brussels on some rules around food and agriculture to allow access to the economic European trading zone known as the single market.

Europe

Starmer ready for closer EU alignment ’in the national interest’

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK should move towards closer alignment with EU markets "if it’s in our national interest".

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Chávez’s death in 2013 briefly opened space for reassessment, but suspicion endured. Donald Trump’s first presidency removed any remaining ambiguity, recasting Venezuela as a criminal state and openly discussing regime change.

World

Venezuela’s Crisis Is No Accident: How Oil and Intervention Shaped a State

Monday, January 5, 2026

How Chávez’s unfinished revolution, U.S. interventionism and strategic oil politics culminated in the 2026 capture of Nicolás Maduro.

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Romania hosts key command-and-control structures and has become a permanent pillar of the Alliance’s southeastern posture. In defense-industrial terms, that matters: long-term security relevance translates into long-term industrial confidence.

Europe

Why Romania Is the Next Defense Factory of Central and Eastern Europe

Monday, January 5, 2026

Step by step, Romania embedded itself into some of the most demanding industrial supply chains in the world, delivering at scale for German, French, American and Turkish manufacturers.

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EU Actually

“The Mercosur agreement is an attack on our agriculture and democracy"

N. Peter KramerBy: N. Peter Kramer

Farmers from all over Europe were demonstrating in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg against the Mercosur agreement. According to many MEPs, the protest was more than justified.

Europe

Keep Calm and Carry On: Why Europe Shouldn’t Panic Over Trump’s Threats

Keep Calm and Carry On: Why Europe Shouldn’t Panic Over Trump’s Threats

As Brussels contemplates a trade clash over Greenland, Europe may want to study Mark Carney’s brand of Canadian-style “cold shoulder” diplomacy.

Business

EU waters down plans to end new petrol and diesel car sales by 2035

EU waters down plans to end new petrol and diesel car sales by 2035

Current rules state that new vehicles sold from that date should be "zero emission", but carmakers, particularly in Germany, have lobbied heavily for concessions.

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