Given the Trump administration’s recent statements and policy pronouncements, European leaders no longer have any excuse for ...

The American capture of Maduro is a signal event in world geopolitics. Europeans must confront three immediate dilemmas ...

Trump’s 28-point plan for Ukraine Podcast Emergency room Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes 21 November 2025 Mark Leonard welcomes Jana Kobzova and Jim O’Brien to unpack the leaked 28-point US-Russia ...

Quickly bringing in the Western Balkan candidates, Ukraine and Moldova to counter Russia or China poses many dilemmas for the ...

Hungary's media landscape exists in a grey zone, where journalism's boundaries are set by the whims of regulatory power.

On December 4th, the Trump administration published its new National Security Strategy (NSS). It amounted to an announcement of the death of the West—of the geopolitical framework that has ensured ...

Foreign technology companies cannot be entrusted with meeting Europe’s growing digital needs. This includes American big tech firms. Trump rarely hesitates to weaponise technological dependencies or ...

Europe, you have been warned. Vladimir Putin has waged a full-scale war against Ukraine for nearly four years and this week threatened that Russia was “ready right now” for war with Europe if need be.

China now poses a deindustrialisation-level shock to Europe’s economic future. The external impact of Chinese overcapacity, involution, and Beijing’s technological leadership and supply-chain ...

One could certainly argue—and some have—that in the world of US President Donald Trump a document like the National Security Strategy matters little. He is unlikely to have helped drafting it; maybe ...

Russia’s renewed offensive in eastern Ukraine is beginning to yield results. Russia is laser-focused on taking the city of Pokrovsk and other settlements in the Donbas region. By seizing these ...

When the leaders of France, Germany, and Britain meet today with the Ukrainian president in London, the Polish prime minister will not be among them. Poland—Ukraine’s largest Western neighbour— was ...