Geopolitics

How will the Iran conflict hit European energy markets?

Policymakers should plan for a potentially prolonged standoff in the Middle East, while doubling down – not backtracking – on the energy transition

Simone Tagliapietra

International support to Ukraine is insufficient and declining

After four years of war, the Western aid strategy to Ukraine must be rethought

Marek Dabrowski

Why does European rearmament need European competition?

Guntram B. Wolff

How can the EU use FTAs to secure its global ambitions?

Ignacio García Bercero

Europe needs a broader trade-defence toolkit against a mounting China shock

Alicia García-Herrero

Kaja Kallas: The EU’s Tough Talker

Rebecca Christie

Tax, sovereignty and the EU

How will Europe manage the collision of money, politics and global reform?

Rebecca Christie, Roel Dom and Pascal Saint-Amans

Defining the new strategic direction for European Union trade policy

A turbulent January exposed EU trade strengths and fissures, demanding rapid anti-coercion action and smarter leverage of trade deals

Ignacio García Bercero

European and Chinese exports kept growing despite the 2025 Trump trade shock

Diversification has kept global trade strong, despite Trump’s tariffs and accelerated US-China decoupling

Zsolt Darvas and Marie-Sophie Lappe

Russian fiscal space – In-depth analysis of Russian public debt, constraints to medium-term sustainability, and macroeconomic consequences

Marek Dabrowski

The time has sadly come for a Nordic nuclear weapon

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

The Promise of a Middle-Power Alliance

Moreno Bertoldi and Marco Buti

What can Europe learn from Trump’s Greenland tariff threats?

Niclas Poitiers

The end of the Turnberry truce: how the EU should react to US coercion over Greenland

The EU should be prepared to hit back against US economic pressure, deploying trade and anti-coercion measures

Ignacio García Bercero

With Trump, what is left of the global minimum tax?

Pascal Saint-Amans