Category: Analysis

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NATO’s Make-Believe Spending Goal

It would be surprising if even half of the European NATO members could expand defense spending as much as the alliance requires.

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Welfare or Warfare? The Spanish Agony in Numbers

Rising defense spending will cause fiscal fights in many NATO countries. In Spain, the tension between social benefits and military outlays is perhaps more pointed than anywhere else.

The Talibanization of Bangladesh

The new regime is obliterating the rights and security of religious minorities, women, artists, authors, journalists, and secular people while empowering radical Islamic groups.

Will Trump Force the EU To Scrap Green Non-Tariff Barriers?

Will Trump Force the EU To Scrap Green Non-Tariff Barriers?

The U.S. trade war gives Europe a golden opportunity to abandon the harmful green trade policies that have undermined the continent’s economy.

April 25, 2025
Stop Complaining: On Tariffs, Meloni Is Showing the Way Forward

Stop Complaining: On Tariffs, Meloni Is Showing the Way Forward

Meloni’s Washington gamble isn’t just bold—it’s a blueprint for a Europe no longer shackled to Brussels’ dead weight.

April 23, 2025
EU Funds Islamist Indoctrination in Pakistani Schools

EU Funds Islamist Indoctrination in Pakistani Schools

The bloc has “lost its credibility as a commercial power guided by human values,” human rights activist said.

April 23, 2025
The Euro’s Paper Empire: Germany’s Big Bond Gamble

The Euro’s Paper Empire: Germany’s Big Bond Gamble

Without fundamental reforms and a return to market-oriented policies, Germany—and with it the euro zone— will continue to lose ground.

April 21, 2025
How China Left Europe in the Dust in the Electric Car Race

How China Left Europe in the Dust in the Electric Car Race

Beijing has taken advantage of European naivety to fill the Common Market with its vehicles while protecting its own.

April 19, 2025
Queen Ursula’s Plot To Rule Europe—and Save the World

Queen Ursula’s Plot To Rule Europe—and Save the World

Not national governments, not even Brussels, but Commission chief von der Leyen alone can and must deliver us all—or at least that is what she thinks.

April 16, 2025
Turkey’s Neo-Ottoman Push on Cyprus Threatens European Stability

Turkey’s Neo-Ottoman Push on Cyprus Threatens European Stability

Brussels must take a firmer stance on Turkey’s violations of international law, reinforcing support for Cypriot sovereignty.

April 14, 2025
The Tariff Earthquake: How Trump Is Reshaping the Global Economy 

The Tariff Earthquake: How Trump Is Reshaping the Global Economy 

The U.S. president is tackling an issue the nation has been kicking down the road since the end of the gold standard in 1971: the gaping chasm of fiscal disaster and trade deficits.

April 8, 2025
Paris Rally for Le Pen Unites the Right

Paris Rally for Le Pen Unites the Right

The media will have to get used to it: the RN intends to go all the way to power without violence or a coup d’état.

April 7, 2025
EU Return Directive: The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End?

EU Return Directive: The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End?

Are the proposed revisions enough to finally close the door on illegal migrants?

April 7, 2025
Jordan Bardella: Does He Have What It Takes To Lead France?

Jordan Bardella: Does He Have What It Takes To Lead France?

Enjoying both his party’s and the nation’s support, France’s right-wing ‘Cyborg’ has two years to mature and fill Le Pen’s shoes.

April 5, 2025
How Merz Dug His Own Political Grave

How Merz Dug His Own Political Grave

The CDU/CSU Union is about to fail at the very thing they have always prided themselves on: political responsibility.

April 4, 2025