Membership with strings attached: how Brussels is rewriting the EU path for Ukraine
Brussels drops the idea of membership before reforms and offers Ukraine gradual access plus farm sector limits

Brussels drops the idea of membership before reforms and offers Ukraine gradual access plus farm sector limits
Macron’s M51.3 launch from Le Vigilant, days after fresh Kaliningrad nuclear warnings, shows how Moscow’s habit of public ballistic tests and deterrent signalling has become contagious
Two EPC commentaries accept stronger post-accession tools, then ask what protects the Union when the special regime ends
Hierarchy with a membership fee: how Trump’s Board reprices democracy in Wider Europe
The problem is not simply that the world has more urgent crises. It is that, following repeated failures, the issue may be regarded as one with a low probability of success
Washington wants the EU to release about 120 million barrels over six months to bring down pump prices in the U.S.
L’Express reveals Russian scenarios that include killing a commissioner; perhaps it is time the institutions noticed too
Andrija Mandić keeps the speakership, but his condolences to the Mladić family have split the ruling majority and put Montenegro’s final EU reforms at risk
Bulgaria received the remains of its tsar, Greece received 48 relics, and North Macedonia received one more reason to argue about the past
Hollywood will not have to invent the beats. It will have to decide which version of them is true
Using Google fines to cut national contributions is a windfall, not a budget strategy
Oleksandr Khara thinks Ukraine’s remaining leverage is the ability to keep hitting Russia until Moscow calculates that a pause hurts less than another winter of burning refineries