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EU BUBBLE WAR
After a meeting of European leaders on Sunday, a spokesman for German Chancellor Merz voiced Europe’s readiness to take “the leading role in negotiations to end Russia’s…
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
The EU Commission’s proposal to triple data centre capacity over the next five to seven years is intended to help Europe catch up with China and America in the race to unlock…
CORRUPTION EU BUBBLE
Jean Monnet famously opined that the European project advances by crises.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
If one factor links the dire unpopularity of Chancellor Merz and President Macron, it is their political insularity.
FROM THE CAPITALS TRADE
Is the European Union ready for neo-mercantilism? China certainly doesn’t think so.
INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Another round of couples counseling last week failed to resolve the grinding Franco-Teuton dispute over the beleaguered Future Combat Air System (FCAS).
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
Last month, EU leaders met to consider the impact of high energy prices on Europe’s industrial competitiveness.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
What is it about a campaign to remove the Islamic Republic’s chokehold on Europe’s energy supplies that appals Europe?
EU BUBBLE WAR
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier may not be interested in the war with Iran, but that war is certainly interested in Germany.
EU BUBBLE WAR
Twenty-five years ago, Europe stood poised to administer a world where all nations sought peace and prosperity.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
Germany’s ruling coalition may be an awkward marriage of ideological rivals, but it does benefit from the absence of the Greens, who pushed many of the economically injurious…
EU BUBBLE WAR
This week’s acrimonious breakup of the latest ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine has for the moment forestalled Europe’s quaking nightmare: That the US may broker…
CHINA FROM THE CAPITALS
The horror with which foreign ministries across Europe greeted President Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland shows us how far European diplomats are from understanding,…
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
Those of us who grew up in the American South are familiar with the Lost Cause, a profound nostalgia for the defeated Confederacy among our elders, many of whom (like my own…
EU BUBBLE TRADE
In the wake of the Trump tariffs, European leaders have loudly proclaimed the merits of free trade, often pointing to the stupendous increase in general prosperity that came…
EU BUBBLE WAR
The raid on Caracas that landed Nicolas Maduro and his wife in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre has surely focused minds in the Kremlin.
EU BUBBLE
The Brussels Effect is the hopeful notion that the EU would become the “regulatory superpower” by creating new governance structures for the world, which would be induced…
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
Hallelujah, we have an agreement to keep Ukraine solvent!
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
The recently completed COP-30 in Brazil begat no roadmap for a fossil fuel phaseout, disappointing an EU delegation that had hoped to rope the rest of the world into an approximation…
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
The European Union came to COP 30 in Belem confident that it could supplant the absent Americans and lead the world with the example of its own plans to achieve Net Zero by…
IMMIGRATION
One of the fundamental obligations of public service in a liberal democracy is the requirement to set aside one’s personal opinions and fulfil the programmes of elected…
ENERGY AND CLIMATE
The recent deviation of Bill Gates from strict green orthodoxy must have come as a shock to Europe's eco-elites.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
The economist Thomas Sowell once observed that there are no policies, only tradeoffs.
EU BUBBLE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Like many leaders facing dire straits domestically, French President Macron hoped his control of foreign policy might allow him to claw back some of his lost prestige.
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
The serial travails of the dying Macron presidency may be dominating the headlines, but the profound dysfunction of Germany’s coalition government holds its own perils for…
INDUSTRIAL POLICY TRADE
Robert Conquest once observed that everyone is conservative about what they know best.
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
The European Union’s schoolmarm in chief, Ursula von der Leyen, has called her unruly charges together this week in Copenhagen, where she will rap knuckles and extract commitments…
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
Engineers know that system stability requires a capacity to manage unexpected accidents.
CULTURE WAR EU BUBBLE
The odd saga of the Cracker Barrel logo redesign was likely mysterious to many Europeans, should they have noticed the story at all.
DEMOCRACY ELECTIONS
The EU is justly proud of the liberal democracies it nurtured as it expanded beyond its original founding members.