Europe is stirring from a long geopolitical slumber. For decades security was outsourced, mainly to Washington. With Donald Trump’s return to the White House and mounting uncertainty over America’s future role in Europe, the time for strategic hesitation has passed. The continent must now take ownership of its security, or risk being caught unprepared in…
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has long created an image of herself as being a “champion” of the Italian far-right when it comes to issues of migration. Having campaigned and won, in part, because of her harsh rhetoric on immigration in the 2022 Italian general election, Meloni has since found it difficult to deliver on her…
With the European Union’s publication of its Communication on The European Green Deal in December of 2019, a proposal for a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) was promised. The declared intention was to ‘level the economic playing field’ globally and adjust the price of carbon emissions on imported goods to match the EU carbon price. This way ‘carbon leakage’, the relocation of production processes to countries with more lenient greenhouse gas emission…
Feelings reigned over the recent European elections which consolidated the new political era of sovereigntism.
People rarely talk about the overall objectives of the ‘European Project.’ Much of Europe’s political class acts as if it’s a non-issue.
How Jean-Claude Juncker surprised everybody during his State of the European Union address.
Airlines might start cancelling flights as early as six months before the end of Brexit negotiation period if no deal is reached.
Politicians are forever legitimising their actions by co-opting history to their side, often quite cynically so.
British voters wishing to remain in the Union or to leave only on consensual terms are deprived of any effective Parliamentary representation whatsoever.
Greater elasticity at the cost of cohesion. Can such an architectural change of the Union help to save the European project?
