Analysis

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

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

The issue is not simply who pays the highest price. It is what happens to these assets after they leave Russian ownership

Trump’s talks with Xi on Thursday put the U.S. president up against a Chinese counterpart who appeared to be in stronger position

A German Marshall Fund paper says Brussels has weeks, not months, to extract concrete Chinese restraint - or reach for tariffs

Multi-billion-dollar gas contracts and mutual AI incident notifications could reshape U.S.-China relations - or leave them hanging

After 16 months of secrecy, all 250 names are out. Missing rebel stars, social-media smears and a program that avoids “high politics” now frame the campaign against Vučić

Berlin talks yield energy deals while Baghdad looks to Mediterranean routes and higher production targets

The stance appears linked to efforts to secure the release of French citizens held in Azerbaijan, as Baku has also lobbied for Usmanov

Moscow now faces a region in which neighbours have more alternatives

The Union’s apparent economic and political weakness comes from an institutional architecture that can no longer answer geopolitical challenges