Can Europe Be Pragmatic With Prague?
Europe stands at a crossroads as Great Power Politics return. Can Europe mend its relations with Prague amid historic external challenges?
Europe stands at a crossroads as Great Power Politics return. Can Europe mend its relations with Prague amid historic external challenges?
Was this vote potentially Switzerland’s almost ‘Brexit moment’? Swiss voters rejected a proposal to cap the total population at 10 million. Had it passed it would’ve had implications for its relations with the EU. Ultimately while unique to Switzerland’s politics, the overarching issue on immigration and identity isn’t solely constrained to it, therein being lessons for other European states.
10 years on, Brexit continues to shape British politics and the UK-EU relationship. Post-Brexit global events have pushed the parties closer together however many obstacles obstruct the possibility of Britain rejoining anytime soon.
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.
Hungary’s April election was closely watched as test case for illiberalism’s survival, and it presented a sea-change to domestic, foreign, and European policy more broadly.
European leaders are gradually heeding Mark Carney’s call for divested links to the U.S.
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.
One of the main challenges affecting the EU structure is the absence of a shared strategic narrative to unite all member states and develop a common strategic path to navigate global uncertainties. This narrative would be a geopolitical compass based on geopolitical necessities and threats, that would guide the EU’s foreign policy and diplomacy.
The criminalisation of NGOs is a peculiar phenomenon that has become more common in the last decades. The reasons behind this trend are of geopolitical and political nature.
Greenland in the 21st century has become a subject of intense fascination by many strategic actors. This is especially true of the United States. As Washington is the primary contributor to the alliance, this is presents dilemmas to European policymakers who countries’ rely on the American led alliance for defense. To deal with these issues, Brussels must understand the context of Greenland’s history and be appraised of potential policy directions for greater autonomy.