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picture alliance / Hans Lucas | Marie Julliard

Foreign and security policy

Europe in a new imperial age

When the Empire strikes, Europe must strike back. And do so united with strategic intelligence and firmness

By Javi López

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Interviews

‘Europe is not powerless’

Bernd Lange, Chair of the EU Trade Committee, on Trump’s tariff threat — and what countermeasures Europe has at its disposal

picture alliance / Wolfgang Maria Weber | Wolfgang Maria Weber

Economy and ecology

Traditionally strong — what went wrong?

As China floods Europe with EVs and the US dominates tech, Germany’s industrial base struggles. How did the old manufacturing giant fall behind?

By Peter Bofinger

Foreign and security policy

How do we measure defeat?

Years of war in Ukraine have shifted global power away from the West. This may not yet represent a defeat, but it is certainly not a victory

By Nickolay Kapitonenko

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Democracy and society

Kyiv’s great re-shuffle

Ukraine’s top power shift signals deep securitisation and a careful balancing of rivals as the war enters a volatile phase

By Balázs Jarábik

picture alliance/dpa | Sven Hoppe

Democracy and society

Fewer walls, more bridges

Calls for firewalls against the far right overlook a key truth: democracy is defended through debate, not isolation

By Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf

picture alliance / IPON | Stefan Boness

Economy and ecology

A moonshot in retreat

Once heralded as Europe’s man on the moon moment, the Green Deal now wavers under political compromise and legal uncertainty

By Daniel Harper

picture alliance / AP Photo | Visar Kryeziu

Democracy and society

Offshore, off course

Europe’s push to shift asylum procedures to third countries risks outsourcing not only refugees, but also its moral and political responsibility

By Judith Kohlenberger

Democracy and society

Brave new restrictions

Has Europe’s crackdown on free speech become a bigger threat to democracy than ‘the extremists’ it seeks to contain?

By Jacob Mchangama

Democracy and society

The world record that nobody wanted

Over 542 days without a government in Brussels. Maybe it’s time for a conclave: lock them together, throw away the key and wait for white smoke

By Maïthé Chini