Guest Contribution by Euro Prospects: As Europe races to rearm, its arms export controls risk failing to keep pace, increasing the danger of diversion, illicit proliferation, and weapons reaching unintended conflict zones.
Germany’s Hormuz commitment is now a standby capability, not an operation. Unlike Aspides, where Berlin deployed within weeks into an active threat…
Iron Gate aims at the overland and Caspian routes Tehran uses to rebuild its military industries: Russian detonators and drone parts by sea, Chinese…
France’s diplomatic challenge is to turn European representation into influence over Ukraine’s future security.
China’s growing influence in the South Pacific is challenging Taiwan’s diplomatic presence and raising questions about the foreign policy autonomy of Pacific…
The representatives of the USA will meet their German colleagues in Berlin, discuss the drug tariffs and prices, a topic of widespread discussion across Europe
Iran’s threat to strike Europe is mainly coercive: it aims to make hosting US bases costly and to split European capitals from Washington. Its missiles…
Without specific waivers for UK defense contractors, European strategic autonomy risks fragmenting established cross-Channel supply chains.
In the USA midterm election held in the Democrats took over the both chambers of Congress and this turn of events is pivotal also for Europe
Defence officials from China and the US met in Washington on November 2 and 3, coming together to discuss military communication amidst the US midterm…
A new report has found the British government has failed to produce a consistent approach vis-à-vis China. Last minute decision making has created uncertainty…
Italy’s high public debt and sluggish economic growth raise concerns about the country’s economic future. While stronger euro area institutions make a repeat…
Since 2022, European efforts to mobilise private capital for rearmament have lagged: aerospace and defence account for just 1.5% of business development…
The rising technocratic influence is increasingly threatening the renowned norm-maker EU’s socio-economic policies and actions. This current phenomenon…
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