As Europe rearms, the real vulnerability is not on tanks or missiles but the software and networks behind them. The union can import weapons. It cannot afford t ...

The Iran war has exposed the limits of an economic corridor built for peacetime. Europeans should rethink the India-Middle ...

Beijing no longer needs to actively deploy economic coercion to shape Europe’s economic agenda in its interest ...

A loyal voter base is allowing Trump to dominate the Republican Party and strengthen his control before the midterms. Now his ...

Developing economies are particularly reliant on Russian fertilisers, for good reason. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Western countries have been imposing restrictions ...

President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan is at risk of falling apart because of American and Israeli maximalism over how, ...

Since Donald Trump’s re-election, the mood in European capitals has been one of foreboding. Although his second-term foreign policy priorities remain vague, his past pronouncements and historic ...

L'Ufficio di Roma dello European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) ha organizzato un briefing online dal titolo "From vulnerability to leverage: Europe's defe ...

In May 2025, when US and Ukraine discussed the “minerals-for-aid” deal, Moscow pointed out the obvious: Russia’s rare-earth reserves dwarf Ukraine’s. By December, elements of that argument had crept ...

Recent coordinated attacks by jihadist and separatist groups in Mali, unprecedented in their scale and coordination, have placed the state’s security apparatus under strain and reinforced concerns ...

At a moment when rising oil prices and continued supply disruptions are raising the stakes of reliance on fossil fuels, decarbonising the global shipping industry is about more than curbing ...

US president Donald Trump’s almost exclusive reliance on friends and family as envoys to broker difficult foreign policy deals poses systemic risks for Europe. The Trump envoys typically plug into a ...