Europe is entering 2026 with its politics pulled in three directions at once: a harder, more nationalist electoral map, a grinding war in Ukraine, and a renewed search for security in the face of Russ

The euro area is entering a phase where interest rates, industrial policy and geopolitics are pulling European business in different directions. Nowhere is the tension clearer than in autos, energy an

Europe is under pressure to rebuild its defence capacity quickly, but the real obstacle is not only money. It is coordination, political will and the uncomfortable fact that security now sits at the c

The European Union is no longer debating whether geopolitics matters; it is trying to catch up with a continent that now has to think like a power. War in Ukraine, a more unpredictable United States,

Inflation has retreated, recession has been deferred, and the global economy has proved more durable than many expected. But beneath the calm, a harder story is unfolding: tariffs are fracturing trade

Europe’s leaders are preparing for a world in which American support is less predictable and Russian pressure remains constant. That combination is forcing the EU to confront a military and diplomatic

The European Union is no longer pretending economics can be neatly separated from security. From sanctions to industrial policy, Brussels is building a harder-edged version of statecraft for a harsher

The European Union knows it needs to move faster on defence, enlargement, technology and the budget. Yet the institutions that could make Europe stronger are still constrained by national vetoes and p

Beyond the grand strategy talk, Europeans are living through a more anxious reality shaped by war, price pressure, migration concerns and distrust in institutions. That social mood is increasingly dri

The European Union is being pulled in two directions at once: toward greater military self-reliance and toward the open economic order it helped build. That tension is now the defining question for Eu

The global economy has escaped the worst inflation shock in a generation, but not the forces that made it so dangerous: trade fragmentation, higher borrowing costs, housing stress, and the political t

Europe is talking more seriously about rearmament than at any point in decades, but its financing still looks timid compared with the scale of the threat. The coming budget fight will decide whether t