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The EU Remains Biased Against Central and East Europe: Unity Yields to Western Arrogance
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European plans for the deep integration of their energy systems once again clash with the harsh reality of internal disagreements and political paralysis.
Europe’s Energy Integration: the Trilemma Remains Unsolved Due to National Selfishness
In his article published in The American Conservative, Ben Sixsmith, a British publicist, reflects on the outcome of the election in Hungary.
Western European Elites’ Hungary Hypocrisy. Are Their Crooks So Different from Our Crooks?
China has started using the language of sanctions with Europe. It is a fact that cannot be ignored.
This Game Can By Played by Two
An analytical article entitled An Age of Liminality: Contradictions in Command, dealing with the transformations in the contemporary world, was posted on the website of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs in April 2026.
An Age of Liminality: Contradictions in Command
Despite widespread human rights violations, the European élite refuses, for some reason, to break a pact that grants Israelis access to business and more than a billion euros till 2027.
Is the Old World Fearful of the Promised Land? EU Stays Gutless to Act Against Israel
On 28 April 2026, a report entitled Justizreform, Wahlrecht, Premierato – Giorgia Melonis Reformagenda im politischen Labor Italiens, about a reform of the Italian electoral system initiated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, was posted on the website of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation close to the Christian Democratic Union party of Germany.
Giorgia Melonis Reformagenda im politischen Labor Italiens
European cities remain on the frontline of the climate crisis but their efforts to improve resilience are still no match to the scale of real threats. Urban Climate Resilience in Europe, a joint monograph by CIDOB и Eurocities, shows that real adaptation of European cities faces deep systemic barriers in spite of multiple strategies, plans, and ambitious declarations.
European Urban Climate Resilience: Ambitious Plans are Hindered by the Lack of Funds and Coordination
Cosmopolitanism and competition find their nemesis
How the “virtues” of neoliberal globalization paved the way to its demise
Italy Falling into a Gap Between Achievements on Paper and What Happens in Reality
Invisible Stability
Europe Has Catastrophically Overestimated Its Air and Missile Defense Capability
Air Defense Powerlessness
The European Policy Centre, a Belgian-based non-profit think tank that fosters European integration through analysis and discussions, hosted a series of joint topical discussions with Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations. The debate concentrated on a turning point on EU migration policy: the New Pact on Migration and Asylum is due to be fully implemented already in June 2026. How ready is it?
Will the EU Migration Pact Be Ready for Implementation?
In a policy brief published by Investor’s Business Daily and dealing with the current trends in the European defense industry, the author Paolo Confino notes the sad but telling irony of the European countries rushing to raise their defense spending (Germany, to USD 127 billion in 2026, with France adding EUR 39 billion till 2030 and the UK heading for three percent of GDP), but much of the funds going to foreign contractors – Israeli (Elbit Systems), South Korean (Hanwha and Hyundai Rotem) and U.S. companies – rather than European manufacturers.
Foreign Contractors Stand To Gain As NATO Countries Spend Big On Defense