Europe’s food system is settling into an uncomfortable new normal: stress without a clear end date. Climate change is no longer a distant variable in the agri-food equation; it is reshaping the
Voters in the U.K have made one thing brutally clear: they are finished with Keir Starmer’s leadership style, his faltering government, and the promise of managerial competence that curdled into drift. Polling
The G7 meeting in France is best understood not as a photo-op for seven wealthy democracies, but as a stress test of the Western order itself. It exposed two realities at once:
Europe is speaking in Washington, but nobody in the Trump White House is really listening. During a recent flurry of high‑profile meetings in Washington, European leaders tried to rally shared values, coordinate
When Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced plans to grant legal status to nearly half a million unauthorized immigrants, reactions rippled across Europe. The proposal—expected to be debated in the Cortes later
The UK’s new steel tariffs may be sold as industrial protection, but for British manufacturing they risk acting like a tax on production itself. By making imported steel more expensive and shrinking
When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni touched down in Jeddah on April 3rd, she did something no other leader from the European Union, NATO, G7 or G20 had dared since the U.S.-Israeli
In an era of unraveling global order, the European Union’s free-trade agreements with far-flung partners—India’s “Mother of All Deals,” Mercosur’s long-stalled pact, Australia’s minerals lifeline—are no longer mere economic afterthoughts. They are
With all the attention on the escalating war in Iran, Ukraine has almost faded from the headlines. Still, there are signs that Vladimir Putin has taken advantage of this moment as the
When the French government announced it would spend €70 million in April to subsidize fuel costs for farmers, truck drivers, and fishermen, it was not merely addressing an economic issue — it
In the marble halls of Brussels, where European leaders once negotiated in presumed solidarity, a chilling new reality has emerged: one member state may have turned the tables into an open line
The Swiss government has dropped a quiet bombshell: no new licenses for weapons exports to the United States. The reason was as blunt as it was consistent with Bern’s centuries-old playbook. “The
In recent days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has forcefully condemned what he describes as outright blackmail from parts of Europe over the fate of the Druzhba oil pipeline. This Soviet-era infrastructure, whose