Moscow’s imperialist strongman believes decadent European democracies can be cowed. Our job is to prove him wrong ...

Chinese utilities are stripping European technology out of their critical infrastructure on security grounds, while Chinese ...

It had to happen sometime. This week, Giorgia Meloni’s long run of political invincibility ended—and her friendship with Washington is partly to blame. Even within the centre-right electorate, there ...

This autumn, Europeans must decide on new terms of engagement with China. They are facing a surging EU trade deficit of €1bn ...

Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, pro-European candidates may find unexpected opportunities among voters of both the ...

Oil markets are grabbing the headlines as the conflict in Iran disrupts traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Yet for Europe, the bigger story lies not in crude, but in liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Shortly after Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the UN General Assembly convened to deplore Moscow’s aggression and demand it withdraw from Ukrainian territory. Twenty-eight African ...

Israel’s expanding ground-offensive threatens to push Palestinians out of Gaza and into neighbouring Egypt. This would worsen an already dire humanitarian situation and risks destabilising Egypt, an ...

In late 2025, the Southern Transitional Council—a political Yemeni organisation backed by the United Arab Emirates—staged a military takeover of Yemen’s Hadhramaut and Mahra governorates. In response, ...

Friedrich Merz wants to be a foreign-policy chancellor. One might not have known it from Germany’s parochial federal election campaign, or the business-as-usual foreign-policy passages of the ...

Europe, you have been warned. Vladimir Putin has waged a full-scale war against Ukraine for nearly four years and this week threatened that Russia was “ready right now” for war with Europe if need be.