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European integration

Its never as easy as it seems

Montenegro is far from perfect, but it is ready for reform. Will that be enough to become the 28th member of the EU?

By Konstantin Hadži-Vuković

picture alliance / MAXPPP | Thierry Thorel

Interviews

‘It’s actions now that count, not words’

Political scientist Stephen Walt on America’s shift toward predatory hegemony and the dangers of short-term strategic thinking

Canva / IPS Journal

Foreign and security policy

When guns eat butter

Romania has quietly prioritised defence at the expense of welfare, but public debate about it remains intentionally muted

By Cristian Chiscop

picture alliance / TASS | Kristina Kormilitsyna

Democracy and society

The state that war built

Battlefield success, innovative technology and plans for future warfare mean little if the Kremlin cannot guarantee its own political stability

By Emily Ferris

picture alliance / empics | James Manning

Democracy and society

The end of the boys’ club

The Epstein affair is putting pressure on Keir Starmer. For now, the British prime minister remains in power — but for how long?

By Michèle Auga

picture alliance / Anadolu | Joseph Prezioso

Foreign and security policy

Negotiations do not mean surrender

but then what exactly do they entail for Ukraine?

By Oleksandr Kraiev

picture alliance / prisma | Stengert Nico

European integration

Europe’s strategic sleepwalking

Internal division and hesitation hinder us from shaping a multipolar world. We urgently need to turn global rupture into renewal

By Udo Bullmann

picture alliance / NurPhoto | Klaudia Radecka

Democracy and society

Diversity or decline?

Against the European trend, Spain aims to legalise half a million migrants. A strategic step to secure the country’s economic and demographic future

By Antón Gómez-Reino Varela

Canva/ IPS

Economy and ecology

Consume, depend, unplug, repeat

Energy policy is power politics. For years, EU leaders failed to grasp this basic fact. Now there is only one way out: produce our own energy

By Annika Joeres

picture alliance/dpa | Fabian Sommer

Foreign and security policy

New START, old risks

As the US-Russia arms control treaty expires, Europe risks becoming a spectator in a nuclear game it cannot afford to ignore

By Tim Thies, Philipp Fischer