Category: 3. Europe

Summary

• Faced with an aggressive new Trump administration, Europeans must understand the assets they can use as deterrents
• Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relations,…

There’s an often-heard and slightly predictable argument about European security. The continent is old and a bit doddery, it’s said. Getting a decision on anything takes years and the cake that emerges is disappointing and heavily…

Only 13 percent believe Trump “respects democratic principles,” while 43 percent say the U.S. president “has authoritarian tendencies” and 39 percent even think Trump “acts like a dictator.”

It’s not just Trump who is viewed…

For years European officials have talked a big game on defence. The European Union has made numerous proposals to boost the continent’s puny production of arms. Three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, what do Europe’s…

The second Trump administration has seen an aggressive restoration of “big stick” foreign policy. In just two months, Trump has already sparked trade wars with Canada, Mexico and the EU, threatened to annex Greenland and pull the US out…

Responding to the publication of a Citizen Lab report identifying multiple cases involving the use of Paragon’s spyware against journalists and human rights defenders in Italy, the Head of Amnesty International’s Security Lab, Donncha Ó…

The danger of relying too much on the U.S. was highlighted by Trump’s sudden decision to undermine allied Ukraine by halting arms deliveries and intelligence-sharing to pressure Kyiv into accepting peace talks with Russia.

Kallas pointed…

“It is urgent … to organize ourselves to welcome talents who would like or need to leave the United States,” French Research Minister Philippe Baptiste told POLITICO in a statement.

The U.S. is not mentioned by name in the letter but…