Germany is ground zero of the second China shock, but Berlin is not fighting back, even as the shock erodes the country’s engineering sectors that are vital to its economic security.
Both elections tested democratic resilience and, while confirming the status quo on most EU policies, showed that anti-establishment sentiment is here to stay.
The EU is facing its second major gas-price shock in four years. Governments need to protect vulnerable households and firms without repeating the costly blanket support of the 2022 energy crisis.
Ceuta was not a migration crisis, but a crisis of trust. Europe's leaders should stop weaponising Schengen against each other, lest the EU’s adversaries copy them.
The threat to Europe from Russia is long-term. Europe – EU and non-EU – needs a collective strategy to resist, constrain and change Russia, at a time when the US is no longer a reliable ally.
China’s trade and industrial policy, its monopoly on many critical technologies and its geopolitical ambitions make it a genuinely systemic rival to the EU and the UK. They need to work together to defend their interests.
