What Parliament is calling for
Shortly after Trump’s re-election in November 2024, MEPs already debated what this would mean for EU-US relations.
In the week Trump was inaugurated as US president, leading MEPs called for continued transatlantic…
Category: 3. Europe
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Europe leads in productivity potential, US strong in innovation
The most productive countries in the world are in Western Europe, according to the Productivity Potential Index (PPI), created by global consulting firm Strategy& and the World Governments Summit….
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Why Eastern European countries are boycotting supermarkets
A wave of discontent over rising supermarket prices has spread through the Balkans and beyond in the past weeks, intensifying pressure on governments to defend consumers.
At the latest meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels on 27…
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US says European security no longer its primary focus – the shift has been years in the making
European defence ministers left their meeting in Brussels on February 12 in shock after the new US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, told them they could no longer rely on the US to guarantee their security.
Hegseth said he was there…
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EuroStack – A European Alternative for Digital Sovereignty
The EuroStack approach calls for a fundamental policy shift toward deeper integration – much like the introduction of the euro, which required transnational structures and processes. It envisions an EU-wide digital infrastructure built on…
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Europe must prepare to defend itself in an increasingly multipolar world
US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine has yet to be made public, but it is already abundantly clear that he…
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Transatlantic twilight: European public opinion and the long shadow of Trump
Summary
- ECFR polling reveals the gloom that has fallen over European perceptions of the transatlantic relationship since early November.
- Respondents are more likely to call the US merely a…
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Suspend Hungary’s Voting Rights to Save the EU’s Credibility
Every six months, the EU’s sanctions against Russia are renewed—but only after an eleventh-hour deal is struck with Hungary. In fact, no EU geopolitical decision related to the war in Ukraine or its defense against Russia has escaped…
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How Spain’s economy became the envy of Europe
Guy HedgecoeBusiness reporter
Reporting fromSegovia, central Spain
Getty ImagesSpain attracts the second highest number of overseas visitors after France It’s a chilly mid-winter afternoon in Segovia, in central Spain, and tourists are gathered at…
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Looking at Trump, Europe’s far right vows to ‘reconquer’ the continent – POLITICO
“Our friend Trump, the Trump tornado, has changed the world in just a couple of weeks. An era has ended. Today, everyone sees that we are the future,” crowed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the most senior of the leaders at the…
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