Category: 3. Europe

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…

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….

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…

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…

US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine has yet to be made public, but it is already abundantly clear that he…

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…

European leaders concluded two days of back-to-back summits in Copenhagen that were marked by the obstructions of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose…