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Economics, institutions, public policy, security and strategic transformation across Europe.
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Europe is a major economic and institutional space undergoing profound transformation. Regional integration, sovereignty, competitiveness, energy transition, security, demographics and transatlantic relations are shaping its evolution. This section examines European policies, national trajectories, continental institutions and Europe’s position within global power relations.
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JD.com–Ceconomy: Europe Redraws the Rules of Foreign Acquisitions
Europe is no longer concerned solely with determining who can acquire its companies. It increasingly wants to understand how those acquisitions are financed, under what conditions they take place, and what consequences they may have for competition within its single market. The E
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EuropeSchwarz Digits–Bull: Europe’s Test of Technological Sovereignty
Europe has spent years seeking to reduce its dependence on foreign digital infrastructure. The preliminary agreement between Germany’s Schwarz Digits and France’s Bull marks another step in that ambition. By combining cloud capabilities, supercomputing expertise and artificial in
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EuropeEurope: The New Paths to Salvation
For centuries, the Church showed Europeans the path they were expected to follow. It defined virtues, condemned transgressions, organised collective obligations and promised, at the end of a life lived according to its teachings, a form of salvation. Individuals did not face the
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EuropePoland: The State Against Itself
Constitutional crisis, institutional confrontation, and the vulnerabilities of a strategic European power An extraordinary situation can arise when a state possesses all the institutions required for its functioning yet can no longer agree on the authority of those who lead them.
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EuropeNorway: Wealth and Time
Some countries measure their wealth by what they produce, others by what they own, and a few have learned how to transform one into the other. Norway belongs to the last category. Over half a century, this kingdom of approximately 5.6 million people has converted its hydrocarbon
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EuropeEurope: The First Contours of Nuclear Coordination
For the first time, British fighter aircraft have participated in a simulated French nuclear mission. Exercise Rummy, conducted on 20 and 21 October 2026, marks a significant step in the strategic rapprochement between Paris and London. Beyond this unprecedented military cooperat
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EuropeFrance: Europe's New Sovereign Risk
France is undergoing a fundamental shift in Europe's financial hierarchy. Long regarded as one of the pillars of eurozone stability, it is increasingly emerging as one of its principal sources of vulnerability.
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EuropeEurope: The Budgetary Price of Power
By proposing a €141 billion reduction in the European Union’s next long-term budget, the Irish presidency has confronted the Twenty-Seven with a fundamental contradiction.
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EuropeThe Netherlands: A Small Country in the Great Flows
In Rotterdam, Europe meets the world before it even knows what it will do with it. Oil arrives by sea, containers continue toward Germany, ores feed the continent’s industries, and chemicals change form before resuming their journey.
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EuropeUK–EU: Coming Back Without Rejoining
Ten years after the referendum that was supposed to restore Britain's control over its laws, borders and economic choices, London is once again negotiating with Brussels to reduce certain barriers, align certain rules and rebuild common mechanisms. It would be tempting to see this as Brexit in reverse.
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EuropePoland: The East Gains Weight
For a long time, Europe looked at itself from the West. Its economic centre lay somewhere between the Rhine Valley, the Benelux countries and northern Italy; its political centre oscillated between Paris, Bonn and later Berlin and Brussels; its security, meanwhile, rested largely on a power located across the Atlantic.
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EuropeSwitzerland: Prospering Apart
At the heart of Europe lies a country that seems to have spent two centuries perfecting a contradiction.
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EuropeThe Foundations of European Integration
Understanding the Common Policies That Shape the Union