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Brussels Is Writing an Industrial Strategy for a Less Friendly World
The European Union is no longer treating industry, climate, trade and security as separate policy lanes. In Brussels, the new logic is resilience first — even if that means a more interventionist stat
Europe’s Security Doctrine Is Being Rewritten in Real Time
Russia’s war in Ukraine and a shifting U.S. posture have forced Europe to confront an uncomfortable question: can it defend itself without assuming American certainty? The answer in 2026 is not no — b
The Age of Friction: Inflation, Fear, and the New Global Economy
The world economy is no longer being shaped by a single shock but by a stack of them: stubborn inflation, higher-for-longer interest rates, geopolitical trade barriers, and a housing market that refus
Europe’s real crisis is political fatigue
Behind the EU’s new strategic language lies an older problem: exhaustion. Europe is trying to respond to outside shocks while its institutions, publics, and elites absorb the strain.
The EU’s economy is becoming a security project
Europe’s economic debate has moved far beyond growth rates and deficits. The new question in Brussels is whether the bloc can protect itself without retreating into protectionism.
Ukraine, Washington and the strain on Europe’s assumptions
Russia’s war in Ukraine has forced Europe to think like a security actor, not just a market. At the same time, shifting American priorities are testing the continent’s dependence on the transatlantic
Europe’s new doctrine: survival by design
The European Union is no longer treating geopolitics as a distant backdrop. It is rewriting its economic model around resilience, strategic autonomy, and industrial capacity.
Europe’s industrial heart is still beating — but the rhythm has changed
The euro zone’s industrial story is no longer one of broad-based recovery or collapse, but of adaptation under pressure: tighter ECB policy, a firmer euro, trade fragmentation, energy volatility and a
The Indo-Pacific is splitting into rival risk zones, not rival camps
The region’s strategic order is being pulled in different directions at once: alliance pressure, tariff shocks, and a widening security challenge from China. Yet the result is not a clean bloc confron
Africa’s economy is being pulled between oil, debt, and the search for leverage
Some governments are betting on energy exports to fund growth, while the broader continent still faces the structural problem of thin fiscal space and fragile investment. Algeria’s latest oil deal sho
Europe’s institutions are becoming climate, trade and security institutions at once
The EU’s legislative agenda is no longer neatly divided between environmental policy, market rules and strategic security. Brussels is increasingly governing those areas together, turning institution-
The world is splitting into rival poles, and Europe is losing its old comfort zone
Geopolitical assumptions that shaped Europe for decades are eroding fast. By 2026, the EU faces a more fragmented world where power is distributed across several competing blocs and none of them is bu
