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How can the EU affordably rearm itself?

EU must propel global climate momentum to fill the gap left by Trump

How should the EU react to the US attack on corporate sustainability?
The European Union should continue to push companies on net-zero alignment, but pragmatic changes can help ease burdens and maintain EU leadership

The geopolitics of artificial intelligence after DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s emergence points to a split into competing US and Chinese AI worlds, making for a tough choice for Europe

Europe’s geoeconomic and development objectives clash in Goma
Despite its critical mineral interests, the EU should be strict on Rwanda to maintain credibility and encourage conflict de-escalation
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First glance
12 November 2024
What the European Union should expect from Trump’s tariffs
The new Trump administration might take a sequenced approach to tariffs, confronting the EU with difficult decisions
Uri Dadush
Newsletter
12 November 2024
How can Europe reinforce security cooperation and coherence after Trump's victory?
Guntram B. Wolff
First glance
07 November 2024
What Europe can expect of Trump: a timeline
A handy guide to the main decisions and milestones of the second Trump administration.
Niclas Poitiers
First glance
07 November 2024
Trump’s comeback and its implications for EU climate and energy policy
Trump’s return should not be seen as a threat to EU decarbonisation, but as a rallying cry to unite and push forward more strongly
Simone Tagliapietra and Cecilia Trasi
Newsletter
04 November 2024
What if central banks took the Paris Agreement seriously?
Dirk Schoenmaker
First glance
31 October 2024
Europe stands increasingly alone on defence production and needs to act
Europe must rebuild its defence industry; reliance on the US is no longer tenable, whatever the outcome of the US presidential election
Alexandr Burilkov and Guntram B. Wolff
Opinion piece
31 October 2024
Who will call the shots in the EU’s future trade disputes with China?
Leon de Graaf and Alicia García-Herrero
First glance
30 October 2024
Clean and fair: maximising the impact of the European Union’s Social Climate Fund
The new European Commission should make more of the Social Climate Fund as a major tool to ensure the green transition is also a fair one
Giovanni Sgaravatti and Simone Tagliapietra
First glance
30 October 2024
Russian internet outage offers clues about online ‘goblin’ army
The outage provides new evidence of the Russian state’s use of bot networks to influence public discourse on Western social media platforms
Michal Krystyanczuk, Francesco Nicoli and Kamil Sekut
First glance
29 October 2024
BRICS is becoming a more solid construction
BRICS is consolidating into a China-dominated bloc that aims to shape the global order; the West should pay attention
Alicia García-Herrero
Newsletter
28 October 2024
Why is the G7 pledge to loan Ukraine $50 billion by the end of 2024 so important?
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard
Newsletter
24 October 2024
China's stimulus package aims to rescue the economy from systemic risks
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
22 October 2024
Breaking the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns for good
Nicolas Véron and Joachim Nagel
Newsletter
21 October 2024
Why should the European Union centralise public expenditure at EU level?
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol
Opinion piece
20 October 2024
The EU’s duties on EVs are a turning point in EU-China relations
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
16 October 2024
G7’s Ukraine loan is at risk
Armin Steinbach