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Why and How Europeans Must Prepare for US Retrenchment
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Cédric Debernard, author of articles, essays and novels on power dynamics and gray zones of modern geopolitics, asks this question on the Canadian Geopolitical Monitor website.
Why States Do What They Do
This is a question raised by John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), an organization run by the Institute for Policy Studies, left-wing progressives’ Washington-based think tank.
Where on Earth Is Europe Heading?
Three U.S. professors of political science – Michael A. Allen (Boise State University), Carla Martinez Machain (University at Buffalo), and Michael E. Flynn (Kansas State University) – make this conclusion in their article posted on The Conversation expert website.
NATO’s Internal Cohesion Is Being Threatened
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Europe Still Needs China: Washington is the Main Threat
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.
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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
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.
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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
In a policy brief by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) Nikola Xaviereff, project manager for the Western Balkans in DGAP’s Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, expresses the opinion that Europe is now at quite an uneasy and telling stage of enlargement: everyone understands the geopolitical need to admit new members, but all show deep-seated hesitancy, institutional fatigue and fear of their own ambitions instead of taking decisive action.
EU Enlargement in Transition: Montenegro at the Frontline