Category: 3. Europe

This year’s Spring Economic Forecast reflects the impact on the EU economy of the recent outbreak of conflict in the Middle East. In the wake of the conflict’s energy shock that drove up energy commodity prices, the forecast projects weaker economic activity as inflation…

Brussels is beefing up its intelligence machinery.

Zoya Sheftalovich and Kathryn Carlson talk about the growing role of INTCEN — the EU’s little-known intelligence-analysis hub inside the European External Action Service — and the quiet power struggle brewing between…

Heute legen die Wirtschaftsweisen ihr Frühjahrsgutachten vor, das die Wachstumsprognose für Deutschland nochmals halbiert. Beim anschließenden Mittagessen mit Kanzler Friedrich Merz droht jedoch noch viel brisanterer Stoff. Gordon Repinski spielt das Gipfeltreffen durch: Wie…

Whether you call them French fries, chips or frites, they are more than a staple of European food culture. Across the continent, they remain the most popular potato-based dish, with up to 42 percent of consumers in countries such as France and the Netherlands naming them as their…

A RT France, Fedorova dirige une rédaction constituée de journalistes français. Si son niveau de français rudimentaire, du moins au début, ne lui permet pas de contrôler étroitement le contenu des sujets, elle est en revanche très attentive au profil des invités, se souvient le…

French operation

In a memoir published last year, Fedorova mentions her “deeply personal” bond with Ukraine, where both her parents were born when it was still part of the Soviet Union. She grew up partly in Austria, where her widowed mother — whom she describes as a former…

INTCEN has no operational espionage capabilities of its own; instead, it analyzes intelligence shared voluntarily by EU countries and passes its assessments to senior officials in the EEAS, the Commission and the European Council. The renewed attention lends fresh weight to a unit often…