With American competitiveness declining, the EU has a chance to offer tech start-ups something better. To create this new ...

A nuclear deterrent does not preclude major war. Putin has learnt this lesson—now Europe needs to do the same.

The EU’s foreign ministers will meet on July 13th to discuss reducing trade with Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank. The move comes long after the 2024 advisory opinion of the International ...

Andy Burnham, Britain’s likely next prime minister, is clear-eyed about his domestic political priorities. But, with the world order in flux, all eyes are on hi ...

The new defence investment plan is weighed down by the habits of Britain’s defence establishment. By contrast, the British public appear readier to accept chang ...

Rethinking democracy Podcast Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes Surviving chaos 8 May 2026 As global upheaval puts pressure on liberal democracies, Mark Leonard and David Runciman explore whether ...

France’s appeals court on July 7 th confirmed Le Pen’s conviction for embezzling European public funds. It reduced her “ineligibility” sentence, opening the possibility of her running as a candidate ...

When the 13 EU member states of the Three Seas Initiative (3SI), their strategic partners and associate countries, gathered in Dubrovnik in April to mark the grouping’s tenth anniversary, they had ...

New ECFR polling shows British voters see Brexit as a disaster. They are strikingly open to reintegration with the EU. Three quarters want a closer relationship. They see that as key to improvements ...

This week, Julien Barnes-Dacey welcomes Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s minister of foreign affairs, for a fireside chat at ECFR’s Annual Council Meeting. In Prince Faisal’s first ...

It is only partly a coincidence that the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum—the event that provoked a toxic polarisation of British politics—was marked by another political casualty: the ...

La chiusura dello Stretto di Hormuz ha posto l'Europa di fronte a una doppia sfida: ripensare la transizione energetica in un ...