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Europe’s tariff shock is back — and Brussels has less room to bluff
The United States has unveiled new tariffs on around 60 trading partners, including the EU, reviving a trade fight Europe hoped it had parked. For Brussels, the immediate problem is not just retaliati
Europe’s Economy Is Slowing Into a Strategic Standoff
The continent is not in crisis, but it is no longer coasting. Economic policy in Europe is becoming a fight over security, industrial survival, and who gets to absorb the costs of a more dangerous wor
A Continent on Edge: Europe’s Society Is Being Rewired by Fear, Fatigue, and Politics
Across Europe, the social mood is turning harder and more defensive. The politics of climate, migration, technology, and identity are increasingly shaped by a public that wants protection more than tr
Europe’s New Reality: Power Is Back, but So Is the Price Tag
Brussels is again talking like a capital of consequence, not a conference center. The problem is that every new strategic ambition now comes with a bill large enough to expose Europe’s political fract
The Commission Wants Leverage. Europe Wants Unity. It May Not Get Both.
Brussels is sharpening its tools on trade and foreign policy, but the Union keeps running into the same obstacle: member states that agree on the problem and disagree on the punishment. That makes Eur
West Africa bets on gas, but the megaproject will test the region’s politics as much as its pipelines
Leaders have approved the long-delayed Nigeria-Morocco Atlantic Gas Pipeline, a 6,000-kilometre project spanning 14 countries. The promise is energy integration and export revenue; the risk is a costl
Europe’s business machine is running, but not yet in sync
The euro area has moved beyond the panic of high inflation and energy shock, but it has not reached full stability: growth is patchy, prices remain sticky in places, and corporate Europe is adapting u
Europe’s trade power is being tested by a world that no longer plays by its rules
The EU still likes to present itself as a rules-based trading giant, but 2026 is exposing how fragile that model becomes when geopolitics gets in the way. From China to the transatlantic relationship,
Sudan’s war is mutating into a regional security crisis
Sudan’s conflict is no longer contained by the country’s front lines. New sanctions, fresh allegations of atrocity crimes, and repeated diplomatic calls for a ceasefire show a war hardening into a reg
Europe’s political center is holding — but only by stretching itself thinner
Across the EU, the political system is being asked to absorb enlargement, war, migration pressure, climate stress and defence urgency at once. The result is not collapse, but exhaustion: institutions
Nigeria’s energy gamble could redraw West Africa’s map
West African leaders have approved a 6,000km gas pipeline linking Nigeria to Morocco, a project that could reshape energy flows from the Atlantic coast to Europe. The scale is enormous, but so are the
Europe’s 2026 problem is not one war, but four fronts at once
The EU enters the second half of 2026 facing a security picture that is broader, messier and more dangerous than a single conventional threat. Experts now see critical infrastructure sabotage, Russia’
