The Drone at the Dock: Europe’s Ports Are Becoming Security Frontlines

A naval drone incident near Romania’s Port of Constanța turned into a symbol of Europe’s changing security landscape. This analysis argues that ports are no longer only commercial gateways, but strategic nodes where trade, energy, military mobility, cyber risk and hybrid threats meet. Using Constanța as an example, the article explores how the EU’s new port-security agenda reflects a wider shift in European security thinking.

Europe’s AI Infrastructure Challenge: Beyond Foreign Clouds

Europe wants to become an AI power, but ambition requires more than regulation. It requires compute. As the EU expands its data centres, cloud infrastructure and semiconductor capabilities, it faces a difficult balance between technological autonomy, global competition and the physical limits of AI development.

The potential of the Italian-German cooperation for the European Union

The potential of the Italian-German cooperation represents not only a valuable opportunity for the two countries involved but for the entire European Union. Given the two countries’ similar industrial landscape and integrated value chains, they still represent one of the main industrial bastions of the EU and their partnership can bring considerable results in key manufacturing and innovation sectors.

A Change of Tides: EU Security and Defence Partnerships. Australia as a case study

The signing of the EU-Australia Security and Defence Partnership epitomises a radical shift in the EU’s External Action and geopolitical self-awareness.

Dynamics Behind the EU Referendum in Iceland

Iceland faces various potential threats and opportunities that will inevitably change the country’s future and strategic independence. The current global shift towards multipolarity and unilateralism represents a serious threat to the autonomy of small states. A valuable option is signing treaties with more powerful states or joining larger international organisations.

Deportation at a Distance: Return Hubs and the EU’s Politics of Externalization

The European Union’s proposed return hubs would allow some people ordered to leave the bloc to be transferred to facilities in third countries. Backers present the scheme as a practical answer to weak return rates and political pressure over migration. This article examines how the proposal emerged, how it is meant to work and why it raises sharp legal, humanitarian and political questions.

The Faroese strategy in a stormy geopolitical sea

The Faroe Islands represent a unique case in which a small geopolitical actor can pursue its goals with pragmatism and determination despite its size and limited resources. The Faroese economy is mostly dominated by the fishery sector, which is also the most relevant element influencing the islands’ autonomous foreign policy and international activity.

China’s AI Talent Camps – and What Can Europe Do?

China has turned education into a geopolitical strategy, producing the engineers behind DeepSeek, ByteDance, and more. The question is no longer whether Europe has noticed. It is whether it can respond fast enough to matter.