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The transcript of a debate between François Chimits, project manager for Europe at the Institut Montaigne, and Nicolas Leron – director-general of the Institut François Mitterrand, was posted on the Institut Montaigne website on 21 April. The debate was held on the occasion of 18 months that had passed after a report by Mario Draghi about Europe’s future competitiveness was issued in September 2024.
18 Months After Mario Draghi’s Report About European Competitiveness Prospects. Two Perspectives on the State of Affairs
As shown in a detailed analysis by Kevin J. McNamara, for all the talk about EU enlargement and formal promises of unity and solidarity, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is still being kept away from actual decision-making.
The EU Remains Biased Against Central and East Europe: Unity Yields to Western Arrogance
European plans for the deep integration of their energy systems once again clash with the harsh reality of internal disagreements and political paralysis.
Europe’s Energy Integration: the Trilemma Remains Unsolved Due to National Selfishness
In his article published in The American Conservative, Ben Sixsmith, a British publicist, reflects on the outcome of the election in Hungary.
Western European Elites’ Hungary Hypocrisy. Are Their Crooks So Different from Our Crooks?
China has started using the language of sanctions with Europe. It is a fact that cannot be ignored.
This Game Can By Played by Two
An analytical article entitled An Age of Liminality: Contradictions in Command, dealing with the transformations in the contemporary world, was posted on the website of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs in April 2026.
An Age of Liminality: Contradictions in Command
Despite widespread human rights violations, the European élite refuses, for some reason, to break a pact that grants Israelis access to business and more than a billion euros till 2027.
Is the Old World Fearful of the Promised Land? EU Stays Gutless to Act Against Israel
On 28 April 2026, a report entitled Justizreform, Wahlrecht, Premierato – Giorgia Melonis Reformagenda im politischen Labor Italiens, about a reform of the Italian electoral system initiated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, was posted on the website of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation close to the Christian Democratic Union party of Germany.
Giorgia Melonis Reformagenda im politischen Labor Italiens
European cities remain on the frontline of the climate crisis but their efforts to improve resilience are still no match to the scale of real threats. Urban Climate Resilience in Europe, a joint monograph by CIDOB и Eurocities, shows that real adaptation of European cities faces deep systemic barriers in spite of multiple strategies, plans, and ambitious declarations.
European Urban Climate Resilience: Ambitious Plans are Hindered by the Lack of Funds and Coordination
Cosmopolitanism and competition find their nemesis
How the “virtues” of neoliberal globalization paved the way to its demise
